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The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2’s community shows off amazing player housing creations
It's no surprise that Guild Wars 2 players are thrilled to be interior decorators, thanks to this year's player housing system. And in a...
Elite Dangerous begins its holiday event and talks space colonization as the Thargoid War ends
There is a whole lot of curiosity about Elite: Dangerous' upcoming colonization feature (as one might expect), which means that Frontier Developments had plenty...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best new zone or map of 2024?
The last couple of years, I've come full circle back to being a hardcore explorer in MMORPGs, and it's led me to some games...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
Vague Patch Notes: MMORPG accelerationism is a stupid sucker’s game
The most recent Warframe update starts with a solid chunk of story, and the story that it tells is that of a time loop....
Fallout 76 begins player testing for playable ghouls tomorrowday
Ghoulfriends, your moment is almost here: The playable ghoul patch officially arrives on Fallout 76's PTS tomorrow, December 20th.
Now, we've known that the TV-show-inspired...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024
So here's the disclaimer I put in front of this column every year when I do it (we alternate them): The biggest surprises list...
The Stream Team: The cat’s heist in Guild Wars 2
While on a quest for a frog in a top hat in Guild Wars 2, Massively OP's MJ was introduced to a fairly famous...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 498: Pantheon’s power play
Justin, Bree, and Chris discuss Pantheon's early access, Ship of Heroes' launch window, Warframe 1999's release, World of Warcraft's Siren Isle, Elder Scrolls Online's outage and union, and Old School RuneScape's sailing, with adventures in WoW Classic, SWTOR, LOTRO, Palworld, Dauntless, Guild Wars 2, and Farm Together 2, plus mailbag topics on midcore MMO players and abilities we wish were in every MMORPG.
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2024 MMO predictions
Later this week, we're going to be offering up our traditional predictions for the MMO genre in 2025, but before we do that, we...
Elder Scrolls Online ends its chapter-based cadence in favor of a seasonal model in 2025
We've been speculating for the last few weeks on what would be in the Elder Scrolls Online end-of-the-year letter and whether it would portend...
Elite Dangerous celebrates devs and players in its 10th anniversary retrospective video
This week in 2014, Elite: Dangerous officially released on PC, and despite its ups and downs, the game is closing out 2024 in an...
The Stream Team: The secret behind Elder Scrolls Online’s When the Ground Shook
After rescuing the villagers who were trapped behind rubble in Elder Scrolls Online's Ostumir, Massively OP's MJ found Greenspeaker Sorilen by a tree. Can...
Elder Scrolls Online compensates players for server outages and toasts an in-game play
It was a frustrating couple of days for the players and the devs of Elder Scrolls Online, as the MMORPG's servers were knocked out...
One Shots: Fully furnished and in need of a yard sale
Hey look, everyone, it's RimaHadley! Welcome back to the big leagues, AKA "that goofy Sunday column where we get to stream our games, one...
Elder Scrolls Online’s winter event, the New Life Festival, returns next week
Count Elder Scrolls Online among the MMORPGs that celebrate a winter holiday without clear references to the real world - no Santa in Tamriel,...
Elite Dangerous releases the Cobra Mk V and pits players against the final invading Thargoid Titan
Yesterday marked both a new ship's arrival and the final battle for Earth in Elite: Dangerous, as the spaceships sandbox's latest patch has officially...
Happy holidays: 461 Elder Scrolls Online studio developers just unionized
Bethsoft has one union, yes. What about *second* union? In fact, this is more like third union, and we're not sorry to see it.
Readers...
Design Mockument: What should Guild Wars 3 look like?
We know that Guild Wars 3 is happening... probably. I mean, we have no specific details about Guild Wars 3, other than the fact...
Guild Wars 2 shows off all of the things players have created with Homesteads
Some people with limited imaginations do not personally wish to use housing in MMORPGs and thus do not see the value of it. "So...
