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The Daily Grind: Are you angry about the collapse of Chronicles of Elyria?
Last week, Soulbound Studios announced that in spite of just reaching a semblance of pre-alpha for Chronicles of Elyria, it was out of money...
One Shots: Acrophobia immersion therapy
For those, like myself, who have a slight fear of heights, then boy does Star Citizen have the ship for you! It's the equivalent...
Blizzard sends out a Burning Crusade Classic survey, says farewell to Diablo III’s community manager
It's time to throw a whole armful of kindling onto the smoldering fire that is rumors of a WoW Classic Burning Crusade server. Wowhead...
LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online’s Hytbold experiment
The landscape of any long-running MMORPG is bound to be littered with various developer experiments that were tried and later abandoned. Lord of the...
WRUP: How to change a tire edition
First step, you should find a tire. This part is easy. Cars usually have several of them. Their owners tend to get mad when...
The Daily Grind: When you return to an MMO, do you start over or continue?
Recently I loaded back up Guild Wars 2 after a multi-year absence. While I still have a strong roster of decked-out level 80 characters...
World of Warships’ exercises and recipes, World of Tanks’ overhaul, and War Thunder’s movie set
Welp, here's something I've never seen before: An online game is offering up workouts and recipes that players can do from home while under...
Roblox’s 7th annual Bloxy Awards in-game event draws in almost 4 million players
It's probably easy for most people to brush off Roblox as a silly game that doesn't get much attention, but do so at your...
Guild Wars 2 Game Director Mike Zadorojny left for Amazon Games Studios – in November
Two weeks ago, we reported that Guild Wars 2 Game Director Mike Zadorojny had quietly departed ArenaNet last fall. Originally leaked by a troll...
Here’s what you can do in Ship of Heroes’ surprise beta right now
Last week, Ship of Heroes' Heroic Games announced a "surprise" beta test round - open to the public - during the COVID-19 outbreak. Now,...
EverQuest bungles new overseer system, infuriating fans
Sometimes, Daybreak's just gotta Daybreak, and there's nothing we can do but shake our heads and laugh mirthlessly.
A black cloud is spreading over EverQuest's...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever paid for MMO-related services like coaching?
A few weeks back, MMO veteran dev John Smedley posted a tweet about paying for, of all things, coaching in a video game, and...
Elite Dangerous is bringing fleet carriers to beta in April and May, eyes full release in June
It's certainly felt like a long time coming, but Elite Dangerous will soon bring the much-anticipated fleet carrier spaceship type to the internet spaceship...
Vague Patch Notes: Ambition is not delivery in MMOs
So Chronicles of Elyria is dead in the water. Or... wait, that's not actually accurate; let me start again. Chronicles of Elyria has admitted...
Shroud of the Avatar extends an olive branch to Chronicles of Elyria’s community
With this week's announcement of the collapse of Chronicles of Elyria's studio and development, you can bet that there are a whole lot of...
Warframe has released Operation: Scarlet Spear on PC, plans Titania Prime for March 31
After a bit of a delay, PC players of Warframe have a new war to fight. The four-week long Operation: Scarlet Spear has officially...
Massively on the Go: Why MMO players will love Animal Crossing New Horizons
Some of you may have noticed that several staffers and fellow MassivelyOP readers noted that they were playing Animal Crossing: New Horizons last weekend....
The Daily Grind: Which MMO rogue server do you recommend trying?
It is truly heartening to see so many sunsetted MMORPGs being revived thanks to the tireless efforts of rogue server operators. Preservation of these...
SEED elaborates on how and when it will moderate its community
If you're in a sandbox MMO where people are generally meant to work together and your community draws in a pretty varied number of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 264: Don’t feel blue, MapleStory 2
Justin, Bree, Eliot, and Chris discuss the pandemic's positive impact on gaming, MapleStory 2, Guild Wars 2, EverQuest, and Warhammer Online, with adventures in Animal Crossing, Star Trek Online, GW2, SWG Legends, Dauntless, and FFXIV, and an epic lightning round mailbag.
