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Massively Overthinking: Our MMO resolutions for 2020
We're succumbing to tradition this week as we're counting down the days until 2020. As we do at the end of every year, we've...
Global Chat: The best action RPGs ever
Have you found yourself with some extra time this holiday season and not enough things to click, loot, and wear? Sounds like you need...
EVE Online abruptly removed ores from null sec as part of a wider resource distribution plan
Last week was likely a surprising one for the miners of EVE Online, as Veldspar and Spodumain rocks were abruptly removed from the asteroid...
MassivelyOP’s 2019 Golden Yachties: Most bizarre thing in an MMO this year
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards begin today, and you'll notice we've given them a new name this year: the Golden Yachties.
Many years ago on Old...
Global Chat: Is WoW Classic a mixed blessing?
Now that World of Warcraft Classic has been out for a few months and established itself, what's the verdict? Telwyn over at GamingSF said...
Guild Wars 2 previews early 2020 plans, promises Shadow in the Ice saga episode on January 28
If our retrospectives of Guild Wars 2's 2019 (found here and here) left you a bit unsettled about ArenaNet's future and communication, then feast...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2020
With 2019 drawing to a close and a new decade of MMORPGs waiting for us just a few days away, the Massively OP writing...
Battle Bards Episode 158: Winter returns
Do you feel a little… frozen this winter season? Winter is something amazing to behold, especially when video game composers attempt to capture its unique magic...
One Shots: An epic year
Every one of us deserves to look and feel a bit epic from time to time in MMORPGs, even if it's all in our...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2019
Earlier this week, we granted our formal award for the biggest MMO story of the year. But biggest doesn't necessarily mean best or most...
Global Chat: Crafting is just the worst, Britta!
Advance warning: If you like crafting in MMOs, then you best not read the latest post from Contains Moderate Peril, who is not quite...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2019
It's long-since become a multi-year and fun tradition on Massively OP to do an end-of-year recap of the best and worst MMO dev quotes...
The Repopulation’s new tutorial area is expected to arrive with December’s patch
Getting started in a sandbox like The Repopulation always seems to be the hardest landing to stick. I should know; I've played more than...
Blade & Soul previews Will of Iron’s heart rebalance and fishing overhaul
Just ahead of the holiday, NCsoft announced that Will of Iron was on its way to Blade & Soul, with the Rise of the...
Blizzard promises ‘deep and rewarding’ itemization in Diablo IV
When you dive through the gates of Hell once more for Diablo IV, you are not going to find the same-old itemization system that...
Hearthstone Battlegrounds takes a deep dive into how the game determines your rating
Many game devs are extremely mum about how they come to determine a player's competitive rating. Not Hearthstone, which seems to be all too...
Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the MMO genre
Thanksgiving conveniently falls on a Thursday every year, which means it's the perfect topic for our regular Thursday Massively Overthinking roundtable. I've asked our writers what they're grateful for in and around the MMO genre the last couple of years - and now we're gonna do it again.
Battle Bards Episode 157: Chronicles of Spellborn
An odd, offbeat, and short-lived MMO, Chronicles of Spellborn hardly registered on most of the gaming community’s consciousness. However, this fantasy title has not...
Global Chat: Remembering the MMO fallen
A discussion chain has been rippling across the MMO blogosphere as of late, with writers reminiscing about online games that have lived and died...
No Man’s Sky launches significant quality-of-life improvements and new features in tomorrow’s Synthesis update
Where the Beyond update in No Man's Sky changed the game, the upcoming Synthesis update will refine it. This new large-scale update for the...
