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It's a tale as old as time: Whenever an MMO starts getting up there in years and starting to show signs of age, you...

If you had told me five years ago that Perfect World Entertainment would not only own but make many of the games that they...

The realities of scale in Star Trek Online mean that you don't frequently get to fly a starship through another starship. You kind of...

Traditionally, massively multiplayer games do not have a large presence on the expo floor for PAX, but many studios had large booths with loud...

If you're like me -- screenshot-mad and playing Battle for Azeroth -- then you've been filling up your World of Warcraft image folders like...

At one year shy of a full decade, Champions Online has defied all odds to become the longest-running superhero MMORPG on the planet. That...

Perfect World isn't just using PAX West this year to announce a new module for Neverwinter: Penny Arcade itself will soon be woven into...

When you sit down to make a list of the greatest heroes that humanity has ever known, obviously the Battle Bards will top that...

One of my favorite reviewers of tabletop RPGs at one point opined that percentile systems were one of the best tabletop mechanics possible, simply...

Some people would argue that late August is a little too early to start celebrating Halloween, but Neverwinter isn't about to let that get...

It's always easy to look back at the making of City of Heroes and its first year with a memory tinted toward the good...

It's feeling like superhero week here - Champions Online turning nine, Valiance Online revving up, and now we've got a sneak peek of City...

If you've been around the MMORPG 'verse for a while, you surely remember August 30th, 2009, when Champions Online launched with its ill-fated day-one...

Some have called Star Wars: The Old Republic a failure. And if former Lead Designer Daniel Erickson is correct, then EA is one of...

One of the most exciting parts of covering the news here at Massively OP is that we challenge ourselves to stay on top of...

When you look for famous characters in your MMO, you may be looking for someone complete different than the rest of the crowd. Lt. Commander Hikari...

The Foundry in Star Trek Online allows you to make almost any sort of mission you can conceive of, but most of those missions...

Looking for some superheroic fun to occupy your time this weekend? Champions Online has brought back its Circus Malvanum event with its vehicle theme....

The next phase of Elite Dangerous is en route - specifically, that's chapter three of the Beyond rollout. In a brief tweet this afternoon,...

It’s time to boldly go where no podcast has gone before — by exploring MMO space themes! It’s perhaps the flat-out goofiest and silliest...