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Miss WildStar? Well at least there's the soundtrack to listen to on various sites, right? Nope! Apparently NCsoft pulled the acclaimed score...

Kicking off a week of free giveaways ahead for Star Trek Online, Cryptic's made a trio of Tier 5 (T5) starships available...

What's the biggest gaming unknown for you going into 2019? For MMO blogger Cary at Virtual Bastion, it's whether or not BioWare is going...

Pew pew! The noises by themselves aren't enough; you need the full finger gun action to really make an impression on everyone else. It's...

Working in this field has given me something of a sense of how a lot of the industry is going to play out. Take...

Star Trek Online has a serious crush on Discovery right now -- and why not, since the show has propeled the franchise back...

The Mirror Universe is exactly like the main universe in Star Trek Online, except it's all evil. You might think that would provide a...

Stuck at the max level without anything meaningful to do in the notoriously slow-to-update Star Trek Online? Cryptic is introducing a whole...

A couple of years ago, several key devs who once built MMOs for Cryptic - Craig Zinkievich, Shannon Posniewski, and Matt Highison - announced...

With the year in MMOs ending on a sour note due to the botched rollouts of both Fallout 76 and Atlas, blogger...

A not-inconsequential part of me misses the days when every MMO would pump out boxed expansions. I like buying boxes of stuff I like...

I, like 99.99% of the world's population, loves free swag. I love me dorky t-shirts I'll never wear, I crave stress balls that pop...

It's past December 25th? Well, Christmas is not over, not as long as there are celebrations to attend! So says Massively OP's MJ as...

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...

Even after the last couple of years, Massively OP's MJ does not think she has manages to participate in everything Star Trek Online's Christmas...

While The Game Archaeologist columns take up the most time of any project I do here at Massively OP, I absolutely love doing...

Here we go, here we go, here we go again. This one is always an interesting column to write because there's a certain amount...

In looking over my history with MMORPGs this year, one trend leaps out at me: In pretty much every old favorite that I returned...

Korean MMO Echo of Soul is now back on Steam early access after the title was shut down back around 2015 and...

The MMO genre is in a strange and uncertain place right now -- but also one that is quietly thrilling. We've long passed the...