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World of Warcraft, Neverwinter roll out Lunar New Year events and wild costumes
More MMOs are pushing out Lunar New Year content this week, joining games like Guild Wars 2 and Closers in celebrating the season.
In Neverwinter,...
Skyforge plans Valentine’s Day event, delays new planet to March
It's been a hot minute since we covered Skyforge, but My.com's MMORPG is still zooming along in the wake of its bard class launch...
PSA: Make sure you log in to get your free DC Universe Online CR210 character booster
Daybreak's superhero MMO DC Universe Online is currently in the midst of its eighth anniversary celebrations, complete with the new event Attack of the...
Blade & Soul outlines how to earn its Cutting Edge cosmetics for the three-year anniversary
To celebrate the third year of Blade & Soul in the west, players are getting the chance to getting some far futuristic-looking costumes and weapons....
The best Massively OP MMO community polls of 2018
Polls are a quantitative sort of magic that we don’t often get from our other articles - at least when they aren’t being brigaded...
Black Desert launches on Xbox One March 4, with preorders opening today
We knew this day was coming: It's time to buckle up for Black Desert's Xbox One debut, as preorders for the game on that...
One Shots: Christmas delivery
We all know that Amazon delivers pretty much everywhere with its crazy two-day shipping, but did you realize that the company could do so...
Daybreak’s offering a $300 lifetime sub for its stable of MMOs, and it’ll probably sell out
You had to figure Daybreak was gearing up for some sort of big sub thing, what with SSG doing it for LOTRO and DDO...
The Stream Team: The Starlight season of Final Fantasy XIV
MassivelyOP's Chris absolutely adores the holiday season in MMOs, but one of his top in-game events is Final Fantasy XIV's Starlight Celebration, which has...
Worlds Adrift toggles on proximity-based voice chat, engine overheating, and ciphers
You couldn't get enough of mouth-breathing and kids yelling at their mothers in some state far away from you in Fallout 76, and now...
Ashes of Creation Apocalypse, the MMORPG’s battle royale mode, launches December 18
Over the course of the fall, Ashes of Creation developer Intrepid Studios has been testing a battle royale mode component for the Kickstarted full-scale...
Bless Online brings back the Rift of Time and Space and kicks off the Winter Festival next week
It's beginning to look a lot like... actually, I don't know any version of Christmas with this creepy snowman, and that lady's legs look...
Guild Wars 2’s roller beetle racing event is already live
The world of Tyria is getting fast and furious today with the release of Guild Wars 2's much-awaited roller beetle racing - in fact,...
Vague Patch Notes: Accessibility vs. relevance in MMORPGs
You know that old chestnut about how the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist? The greatest trick...
Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2018
Unlike with Halloween and Christmas, it seems like MMORPG developers never quite know what to do with the Thanksgiving holiday. Vastly fewer games celebrate...
WoW Factor: The smart World of Warcraft stuff from BlizzCon
Let's get something out of the way first and foremost. I am not going to count Warcraft III: Reforged as a smart thing for...
Torchlight Frontiers’ free-to-play model rejects pay-to-win and gambling schemes
Given that Torchlight Frontiers is being published under Perfect World Entertainment, you're probably not going to be shocked to hear that the MMO will...
EverQuest II kicks off its 14-year anniversary celebration
Can you believe that EverQuest II has been running for 14 years now? We'll give you a moment to scamper off to Wikipedia to...
WoW Factor: When long-term progress in World of Warcraft isn’t
"When even the vanishingly tiny playerbase of your game that you've been catering to for years is getting tired... what's going to happen to your game?"
Ashes of Creation announces Apocalypse, its free-to-play battle royale test mode
Over the last couple of months, Intrepid Studios has been talking up Ashes of Creation's alpha one, which was set to include a battle...
