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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 2016. It's...

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

Some Daybreak fans, including our own MJ Guthrie, are receiving a cryptic note from Daybreak this week - best check your old email accounts! Apparently the MMORPG company, most recently in the news for a major round of layoffs and best known for the EverQuest and H1Z1 franchises, aims to announce a new game this week on Twitch starting at 1 p.m. EST.

At the end of June 2014, dozens of online worlds flickered and vanished with the flip of a switch. It was a online apocalypse...

PWE is dropping festive sprinkles of snow all over its MMORPGs for Christmas this year. In Star Trek Online, Q's Winter Wonderland is already live,...

As we do every year, today we're going to peek back at the horrifying outcomes of last year's MOP staff predictions for the genre and the games within it to determine how well we did. After all, what would be the fun of making predictions if we couldn't giggle over our guesses a year later? So did we nail it or fail it? And did you fare better? Let's find out.

Another year is coming to a close! That means we're doing all of our usual end-of-year recaps, and that also means that we're once...

If Hobbits are seen as being generally lazy creatures that gobble up their weight in food every day, then how come they have such...

The Cult of the Dragon is throwing the city (and game) of Neverwinter under siege once more, and players are going to need to...

Continuing with its push deeper into the Age of Discovery arc, Star Trek Online has warped in the Battle at the Binary Stars task...

Unlike with Halloween and Christmas, it seems like MMORPG developers never quite know what to do with the Thanksgiving holiday. Vastly fewer games celebrate...

The Star Trek Online community is in uproar today after a popular subreddit was taken private by its mods in protest over problems with...

Don't have Thanksgiving plans past gorging on dead bird carcasses and mashed-up roots? Blizzard has just the thing for you: Free Overwatch! "From November 20th...

Champions Online was just one of the many superhero MMOs that came out to pay their respects to comics legend Stan Lee after news...

To celebrate the launch of Heart of Fire for Neverwinter on PC last week, PWE has kindly given Massively OP 100 cloak keys to give away to our readers!...

Every once in a while we receive emails here at Massively OP that share a similar sentiment. Usually that boils down to, "I love...

Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO's progression server, Funcom's and NCsoft's next big things, Gamigo's plans for Trion's games, and updates for Warframe, DCUO, and Neverwinter, plus discussion on favorite playstyles, legacy server ideas, and the future of Blizzard MMOs.

Geeks of all stripes are mourning the passing of Stan Lee today, perhaps no one more than gamers who live and breathe superhero MMOs. Over on the DC Universe Online forums, there's been an outpouring of love for the iconic Marvel superstar.

Tack this on your list of action-RPGs to watch. Mad Head Games announced that it is developing a blend of ARPG and MOBA with...