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EVE Evolved: Video highlights from EVE Fanfest 2017

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For a few days each year, hundreds of EVE Online players from across the world flock to a frozen volcanic rock at the top of the world for...

The Game Archaeologist: SOE’s The Agency

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The graveyard of Sony Online Entertainment and Daybreak Game Company is certainly full enough to be considered a threat if there was ever a...

The Survivalist: Massively OP’s guide to survival games, single-player and beyond

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As Massively OP is centered on the "massively" part of gaming, it makes sense that my first guide to survival games was focused on...
This was a television show.

Perfect Ten: Conversations with anthropomorphic concepts of MMO studios

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Every so often, a man needs to have a conversation with some anthropomorphized concepts. I do that every few years. In the past, I've...

Tamriel Infinium: Am I playing Elder Scrolls Online wrong?

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Elder Scrolls Online and I have had an on-again-off-again relationship for the last several years. A lot of that relationship stemmed from my being...

Jukebox Heroes: Your top six favorite MMO music themes

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After over a month of voting and counting down, we've arrived at the final six picks for your favorite MMORPG theme songs of all...
Still in the dark.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward in review – side stories, part one

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Here's a fun fact: I don't actually know how long this series of columns is going to be at this point. That shouldn't affect...

LOTRO Legendarium: Playing second fiddle to the Fellowship

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Back when Lord of the Rings Online was being developed as Middle-earth Online in the late 1990s, the original concept was to plop players...

Guild Chat: Should I quit my MMO because of in-guild bullying?

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Welcome along to another advice-filled edition of Guild Chat, the column through which the Massively OP community can both offer pearls of wisdom to...

The Survivalist: ARK’s big bird nerf

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I know I said part two of the survival guide, containing a host of single-player survival games, would be the next entry in this...

Tamriel Infinium: Examining the gods of Elder Scrolls Online’s Morrowind

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As we all wait patiently for June 6th to come around so that we can play through Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind, players might realize...

Perfect Ten: 10 little things that I love about LOTRO

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I'm a details man. I like to stop and check out the small things, to drink in my environments, and to notice how all...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s Bastion of the Penitent raid lore

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As promised, I'm making a return to the lore found within Guild Wars 2's newest raid Bastion of the Penitent now that we've summarised the...

EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s moon mining overhaul and the future of conflict

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Just under four years ago at EVE Fanfest 2013, EVE Online's Executive Producer Andie Nordgren took the stage and delivered an epic long-term vision for the...
This is who we were.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward in review – the main scenario

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I never really had a chance to explore Final Fantasy XI expansion by expansion. By the time the game launched in North America, the...

The Game Archaeologist: Rubies of Eventide

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I can't say that Rubies of Eventide has been on my radar, like, ever. And yet practically every time I've asked for suggestions of...

The Soapbox: Why is Pokemon GO still a tech demo?

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I've been a bit frustrated with Niantic lately. I love some of its ideas, but I watched someone else play Ingress prior to Pokemon GO's...
This isn't how it had to be.

Perfect Ten: More terminology the MMORPG genre needs

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Many moons ago (so, a few months), I wrote a column about terminology that we need for the MMO genre. This made our Editor-in-Chief...
If we do get a new race, of course, everyone knows my biggest suggestion.

Why World of Warcraft’s item level scaling is really, really, dumb

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This has been a very stupid week. I know this because any other week, World of Warcraft completely destroying the reason for acquiring new...

Jukebox Heroes: Your favorite MMO themes, #12-7

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It's starting to get serious now. As we well know, people are highly opinionated about everything, but when it comes to music, there seems to...

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