A PWE studio known primarily for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.
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The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO freebie you’ve ever gotten?
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...
The Stream Team: Enjoying Neverwinter’s Winter Festival of Simril
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...
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...
The Stream Team: Q is for Christmas in Star Trek Online
Even after the last couple of years, Massively OP's MJ does not think she has managed to participate in everything Star Trek Online's Christmas...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v2.0
While The Game Archaeologist columns take up the most time of any project I do here at Massively OP, I absolutely love doing them...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the best value going into 2019
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...
The Daily Grind: Do you start over when you come back to an MMO?
In looking over my history with MMORPGs this year, one trend leaps out at me: In pretty much every old favorite that I returned...
The MOP Up: Echo of Soul returns
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...
Perfect Ten: MMOs to watch in 2019
The MMO genre is in a strange and uncertain place right now -- but also one that is quietly thrilling. We've long passed the...
Daybreak is announcing a new game on Thursday
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.
The Game Archaeologist: Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2
At the end of June 2014, dozens of online worlds flickered and vanished with the flip of a switch. It was a online apocalypse...
Neverwinter, Star Trek Online, Champions Online, and more PWE MMOs outline their Christmas events
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,...
Ask Mo: The hits and misses of Massively OP’s 2018 predictions
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.
Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2018
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...
One Shots: Hobbit herbal hobbies
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 MOP Up: Neverwinter comes under siege
The Cult of the Dragon is throwing the city (and game) of Neverwinter under siege once more, and players are going to need to...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online engages Battle at the Binary Stars
Continuing with its push deeper into the Age of Discovery arc, Star Trek Online has warped in the Battle at the Binary Stars task...
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...
Star Trek Online community stands divided over a Reddit protest targeting game issues
The Star Trek Online community is in uproar today after a popular subreddit was taken private by its mods in protest over problems with...
The MOP Up: Free Overwatch this Thanksgiving
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...
