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The Daily Grind: Which MMO needs a better music system – or any music system?
If you ask any Star Wars Galaxies veteran about the game's most amazing features, I guarantee that the music and dance system will make...
The Game Archaeologist: Vanguard Saga of Heroes
The significance of Vanguard's development, release, long-running drama, second chance, and eventual closure should be of great interest not just to game historians but...
Massively Overthinking: Taking risks in MMORPGs
Last weekend, Brendan wrote a great column on how to stay safe from gankers in EVE Online, noting that the newbies are commonly given...
Eleven resurfaces with an update on its Glitch remake
After over a year of silence, the volunteer team behind one of Glitch's remakes has emerged for an update. Eleven's team let the community...
Battle Bards Episode 110: Acoustic guitar
The Battle Bards are quite familiar with the power of the strummed guitar and lute, knowing that such simple instruments can bring down walls,...
Global Chat: Saying goodbye to Marvel Heroes
Few people are happy to see an MMO go down, especially in the manner that Marvel Heroes is going from a popular and well-liked...
Massively Overthinking: What are you grateful for in the MMORPG genre?
I've been keeping a gratitude journal for the first time in my life this month, and it turns out that it's freaking hard. Why?...
Ship of Heroes resurrects the crowd controller playstyle
Do you miss playing your Controller in City of Heroes? One of that game's spiritual successors wants to resurrect the concept of a mez-happy...
Magic: The Gathering Arena sets closed beta for December 4
Magic: The Gathering Arena's alpha development is apparently going well, as according to a new dev blog and press release today, Wizards of the...
ARK: Survival Evolved players riot over turrets as Aberration is pushed to December
Over the weekend, Studio Wildcard posted up an ARK Survival Evolved dev blog about turrets. You guys, I had no idea turrets were such...
Fortnite plans to flesh out its PvE mode in December and January
I'm gonna be honest: When I saw the subheader "The future of Save the World" in the latest Fortnite dev blog, I expected what...
Global Chat: Why you need to be playing Warframe
You know what's one MMO that seems to be capturing the interest of a lot of gamers these days? Warframe. It seems to be...
Massively Overthinking: Are modern games too cheap?
This week's Massively Overthinking topic is a submission from reader and commenter camelotcrusade, who takes the industry's current fight over monetization in a different...
Battle Bards Episode 109: Club Penguin
When you’ve got a club full of penguins overseen by the Mouse House itself, you know things are going to get both wacky and...
Disney has canceled Marvel Heroes, Marvel has ended its relationship with Gazillion
We can now confirm this as real, following a statement made by a Marvel representative to Massively OP. We're updating below.
According to Kotaku, Disney...
Blade & Soul teases Dawn of the Lost Continent’s sights and storyline
When Dawn of the Lost Continent drops in Blade & Soul next month, the upgrade to level 55 will be accompanied by a "sweeping...
Marvel Heroes’ update silence has stretched to four weeks; here are the latest developments
I'm afraid we still can't say that Marvel Heroes is going to be OK, as we've now gone an entire month since the last...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst of BlizzCon 2017
Last weekend, even Massively OP was obsessing over BlizzCon, and we thought it would be fun to poll the writers, including those who watched...
Global Chat: World of Warcraft BlizzCon reactions
Whether you play it now or not, chances are that your paths have crossed with World of Warcraft in the past. This is true...
Marvel Heroes has now missed three weekly updates in a row as Thor: Ragnarok hits theaters
It's now been two weeks since we've had any word on the state of Marvel Heroes, as today marks the third missed Friday update in...
