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US politician shades Blizzard over World of Warcraft toxicity
Last week, the gaming world was a tad busy running Halloween events and watching BlizzCon, so it passed almost without notice that a US...
Warframe releases the Old Blood, celebrates Switch anniversary, and boosts Movember
Surprise! Warframe has unleashed another bloody huge torrent of news items all over me! Why am I forsaken? What did I ever do to...
Perfect Ten: The many flavors of MMO PvP
Not so long ago (so, at the rate news has come out since then, what feels like decades ago) I wrote a column about...
Neverwinter celebrates the season with the Masquerade of Liars and Contest of Liars events
MMOs, by their very nature, let players be someone or something they're not, which is a stark reminder for me every time I look...
Final Fantasy XI brings out the Harvest Festival for another year of costumed antics
Players with long memories who were there for the Final Fantasy XI launch in North America no doubt recall that it coincided with the game's...
RuneScape 2019: RuneScape’s focus on community shines in Golden Globes and cosplay
What is RuneFest? We have reported on the announcements, but that's the convention actually like? As I had only attended RuneScape's 15th anniversary before,...
Hyperspace Beacon: Is SWTOR prepared for the Onslaught?
Welcome back to the Hyperspace Beacon. I have taken a much-needed break over this summer to come back to the first expansion that Star...
Black Desert preps Halloween and Great Expedition on PC, awakens the Tamer on Xbox One
Black Desert Online's PC version is busy prepping its boat for the Great Expedition update coming next week, but in the meantime, there's Halloween...
Enter to win a Neverwinter Couturier Pack for PC courtesy of PWE and MOP!
With the launch of Uprising now rolled out to Neverwinter's PC and console players, PWE has kindly given Massively OP 50 Couturier Packs keys...
Vague Patch Notes: Copies, blatant copies, and plagiarism in MMOs
So... this was honestly not the story that I had expected to have wound up coming out of Eternal Magic. I'd been expecting that "beauty...
Enter to win a TERA-themed PS4 console from En Masse and MOP (open to NA/EU!)
We've got a truly awesome giveaway lined up today: To celebrate MMORPG TERA, we've partnered with En Masse to give one lucky MOP reader...
City of Heroes: Homecoming patches in the third part of Issue 26 with new stories and powers
At long last, City of Heroes players who have been aching for new story content have an option for exactly that with the release of...
Eternal Magic has been accused of ripping off Guild Wars 2, World of Warcraft, and SMITE
It's no secret that Eternal Magic, the now-in-beta PvP MMO from Chinese developer Duoyi, got off to a bad start with the community earlier...
Eternal Magic moves into open beta today – here’s the new trailer
Good news, fans of optimization: Eternal Magic is moving into open beta today, and one of the elements that it's boasting is that it...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online PC Science Intel bundle in honor of Awakening’s launch
With Star Trek Online's Awakening expansion now out in the wild on PC, PWE has kindly granted Massively OP a bunch of goodies to give...
The MOP Up: League of Legends’ future looks bright
Don't let games like Fortnite and Overwatch make you forget that League of Legends is still a thing. In fact, Riot Games' MOBA saw...
EVE Online shares the numbers from the Aether Wars: Phase Two event
The second phase of EVE Online's tech demo for Aether Wars has long since come to a close, but there was still the question...
Chronicles of Elyria marks its crowdfunding anniversary with a contest and more crowdfunding
Most MMO anniversaries are to mark a game's launch date, but since Chronicles of Elyria still hasn't quite completed development yet, it has to...
The Daily Grind: How would you make a special MMO ruleset server?
Lately there's been some friction over in Lord of the Rings Online due to what players see as mishandling and miscommunication over the game's...
PvP MMORPG Eternal Magic’s closed beta starts today
Originally, the closed beta for Eternal Magic was supposed to start on July 17th. That didn't happen; instead, the game announced a delay before the...
