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Life Beyond’s economy gets a boost, plus its studio snags an Epic Mega Grant
MOP's Bree once argued that the economy was the central core of MMOs, the one element that truly bound an online game together and...
SWTOR’s 6.1 Pinnacles of Power goes live today with new story beat and stronghold
Star Wars: The Old Republic's Pinnacles of Power was meant to go live this past Tuesday. It didn't. It was delayed, according to BioWare,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO puts on the best Valentine’s Day?
Valentine's Day tends to be one of the stranger holidays for MMO developers to try to shoehorn into their game worlds. It can be...
Choose My Adventure: Nearing a point of Lahn mastery in Black Desert
In the last Choose My Adventure column, I mentioned how the Lahn in Black Desert felt an awful lot like a fighting game character...
Massively Overthinking: MassivelyOP, five years in
Five years ago, we flipped a switch, let the site go live, and published our first article as Massively OP. It was from Justin,...
Stake your claim with New World’s settlements as Amazon drops new dev blog
Even though New World is allegedly right around the corner this spring, Amazon Game Studios has been fairly quiet on the sandbox title since...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMORPG endgame for people who like to PUG?
A few months ago on Reddit, a player popped up with a neat question about MMO endgames. Essentially, Redditor TooEarlyForMe wanted to participate in...
Cthulu-based horror MMO Yellow King has officially entered early access
Who's ready for a touch of far-reaching, dimension-shaking horror that's so potent simply looking upon it will induce madness? Then you might be ready...
Fight or Kite: Examining the state of Guild Wars 2 PvP ahead of the big balance patch
About two weeks ago, ArenaNet dropped one of the largest - maybe the largest - balance patch previews for Guild Wars 2 to date....
Lord of the Rings Online’s Riders of Rohan arrives on progression servers this week [Updated]
Update: It's Wednesday.
Saddle up and ride for the horse kingdom: Riders of Rohan is coming to Lord of the Rings Online's progression servers this...
The Daily Grind: Is there a thing you secretly love in an MMO you hate?
Let's give credit where credit is due: Just because we dislike a game doesn't mean we dislike every last thing in it. Most of...
One Shots: Star Butts – The Next Generation
I am sincerely glad that we have a mature and grown-up community here at Massively OP that does not abuse its posting power to...
The Game Archaeologist: The legacy of Guild Wars
Last week on The Game Archaeologist, we examined the exciting beginnings of Guild Wars, thanks to a trio of ex-Blizzard developers who wanted to...
WRUP: Complete works of Ozymandias to look upon and despair edition
Now That's What I Call Music (Ancient Societies Edition)
Please note that at the time he created it, it was not tagged as "Ancient...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite sci-fi MMO?
Generally, but not always, I like to have a science fiction (or science fantasy, if we're being pedantic) MMORPG in my gaming rotation for...
Grab a Defiance 2050 Urban Commando outfit from MOP and Gamigo
It's been a hot minute since we last talked about Defiance 2050, the MMO Trion Worlds spun off from the original Defiance back in...
Steam recounts its 2019 achievements including mitigation of review bombing
Steam has made a lot of advancements in 2019 when you take a moment to look at it in its most recent blog post....
Blue Protocol announces timing for closed beta in Japan and unveils new details in a developer video
The developers of the Bandai Namco-published anime action MMORPG Blue Protocol have put out a developer update video and it is chock full of...
The Daily Grind: Are DPS meters in MMORPGs toxic by nature?
I've been thinking about this a bit. On Monday, MOP's Eliot penned a lengthy piece about addons in Final Fantasy XIV that seemed to...
Massively Overthinking: Contemplating Colossus and Camelot Unchained
You had to know we were going to talk about Camelot Unchained in this edition of Massively Overthinking, right?
Last week, City State Entertainment announced...
