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The Stream Team: Learning the Sage class from square one in Final Fantasy XIV
MOP's Chris has learned a lot of the classes in Final Fantasy XIV, but the one that continues to elude his understanding is the...
One Shots: Pollen attack!
There are many ways to kill a man. A dagger in the back. A sifter full of poison. A smothering pillow. A duel at...
The Stream Team: The Orsinium Orc King’s troubles are moot in Elder Scrolls Online
It's down to the wire! With only two days left, can Massively OP's MJ complete Elder Scrolls Online's Orsinium story to earn the title...
LOTRO Legendarium: Middle-earth’s world integrity is an endangered species in MMOs
Back in 2018, Steven Spielberg adapted the popular novel Ready Player One into a film. It seemed like a great pairing: The master director...
Ships at Sea is a new multiplayer maritime ship sim, setting sail for early access in May
Here's a new title I've never heard of, and it turns out it's for a reasonable reason: It's called Ships at Sea, and it's...
The Crew Motorfest and Sky Children of the Light confirm arrivals to Steam in April
One's a multiplayer racing open world-ish title, the other is a cute and emotive social multiplayer game, yet both The Crew Motorfest and Sky:...
Diablo IV arrives to Game Pass subscribers, Diablo III reruns Forbidden Archives April 12
This week brought the marquee event that supporters of Microsoft's multi-billion dollar buyout of Activision-Blizzard were likely eager for: Diablo IV is now available...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online celebrates its 10th anniversary in Orc-land
I have to give some serious credit to ZeniMax: This studio isn't letting Elder Scrolls Online's 10th anniversary go by with nothing more than...
Vague Patch Notes: The limits of data in MMORPGs
Yesterday, I went on a rant about data. As you probably guessed from the various columns wherein I attempt to use data to analyze...
Elite Dangerous previews visual updates of summer’s Powerplay 2.0 while promising more details later
Elite: Dangerous fans likely remember that the start of February had big plans for the spaceship sandbox, including a reworking of the powerplay mechanic...
Paragon-spinoff Predecessor has soft launched into F2P open beta early access on Steam (and everywhere else)
Predecessor - the latest shooter spawned from the ashes of Epic Games' defunct MOBA Paragon - has officially launched into open beta today on...
Warframe launches Dante Unbound (sans Deep Archimedea) and TennoCon 2024 ticket sales
Dante Unbound hit Warframe last night - just in time for the game's 11th birthday (it soft-launched March 25th, 2013). "Defend the Leverian from...
Final Fantasy XIV confirms the most important element of its Final Fantasy XVI crossover
From the moment that Final Fantasy XIV producer and director Naoki Yoshida revealed that he had finally made peace with Final Fantasy XVI producer...
New Hellgate game for PC and console, codenamed Hellgate Redemption, is in the works
Hellgate: London is mostly known nowadays as the IP that just won't die despite resurrections continuing to prove to be increasingly shambolic - a...
Microsoft’s Phil Spencer admits massive layoffs were due in part to gaming’s ‘lack of growth’
Ever since Microsoft announced a wave of layoffs that would affect 1,900 people - over 800 of whom work for Activision-Blizzard - the officially...
Trove’s spring update adds a gearcrafting skill and overhauls endgame drops
Gamigo's Trove is continuing to get love regardless of what's going on with the rest of the company's MMORPG catalogue, and for the blocky...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that experienced a surprising comeback
It's hard to pass up a really good comeback story. We love it when a beloved something or someone is counted down and out......
Massively OP Podcast Episode 463: WoW’s pirates storm the gangplank
Justin and Bree discuss FFXIV Dawntrail, the Riot MMO, WoW Plunderstorm, the state of Cryptic and its MMOs (Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, Champions Online), ArcheAge 2's delay, Path of Exile 2's beta delay, and New World's next season, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, The Sims 4, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on rekindling the social magic of old MMORPGs.
Daybreak’s DC Universe Online launches native PS5 version, picks up ex-Cryptic devs, drops huge 2024 roadmap
If you cast your mind back to early February, you might recall that Daybreak parent company EG7 specifically called out DC Universe Online studio...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Scions of Ithelia DLC is live on Xbox and PlayStation consoles
Console players are finally getting their spring treat from The Elder Scrolls Online, as the Scions of Ithelia DLC and update 41 are finally...
