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A PWE studio known primarily for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.

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MMO Year in Review: Morrowind, Stormblood, and Secret World Legends (June 2017)

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We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...

One Shots: Hand over the presents or the reindeer gets it

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Well, that escalated fast. A showdown with a Santa Claus raid boss in The Division led to BalsBigBrother attempting an unorthodox tactic of threatening Donner...

The ultimate guide to The Game Archaeologist’s MMO archives

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When we moved over here to Massively Overpowered, some of us transplanted our long-running columns to the new space. I perhaps felt most devastated...

The Daily Grind: What MMO rewards are you chasing this holiday season?

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One thing is always for certain this time of year: MMO players have their hands full with Christmas events, so much so that they...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2018

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With 2017 drawing to a close and 2018 rushing up to meet us, the Massively OP team has regrouped for another round of bold...
I don't choose spiders.

Choose My Adventure Year in Review: Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, WildStar, Black Desert, and Neverwinter

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So I've been writing this column for a year now. A little more than a year, as it happens, but last year there was...
What you are chasing and will not get.

Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the best value at the start of 2018

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Let's talk about value. A couple of weeks back, I did an article on the healthiest games at the end of the year; today,...
Ride along with me.

Neverwinter’s Sword of Chult lands on console in January

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Hey consolers. What are you doing in January? Back to the grind, right? Not in Neverwinter: You're headed to the jungle in Swords of...
This guy, though... he didn't get it.

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG articles of 2017

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For this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked the writers to do something most of them hate: brag! We've tried to isolate our favorite personal...
Walkin' in a seasonal event.

Christmas happenings in DCUO, Overwatch, Worlds Adrift, and Neverwinter

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Faster than the snow can come down and the heating bills go up are all of the holiday events that are streaming into, well,...
So secretive!

Choose My Adventure: Secret World Legends in review

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Earlier this year, when we had yet to actually get much information about Secret World Legends, I posted a piece in which I discussed...

Perfect Ten: 20 upcoming MMOs to watch in 2018

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It has become a long-standing tradition as Massively OP and our former site that we like to end the year by creating a list...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 148: Vampires, kobolds, and pirates

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Justin and Bree discuss MOP's December awards, DDO, Secret World Legends, Path of Exile, Hearthstone, Sea of Thieves, RIFT, and Blade and Soul, with mailbag questions on returning to MMOs and love for Champs Online.
GLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORIA

The Humble Bundle for the holidays is full of MMO goodness, including Guild Wars 2, Neverwinter, and Blade & Soul

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So here's how the latest Humble Bundle is working. Drop $35 on the bundle and all of your money goes to charity, and you...

The Stream Team: Visiting Q’s Winter Wonderland in Star Trek Online

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Have you fought a Kramp'Ihri? Massively OP's MJ hasn't. Star Trek Online introduced this new holiday horror, and MJ is taking her first trip...
DAGRON

Champions Online surprises us with a new fire archetype

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It always seems such a shame that Champions Online's free-to-play model leans so hard on preset archetype builds instead of allowing everyone to build...

Perfect World Entertainment sprinkles holiday events across its library

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With so many Christmas events popping up this month, there's no time nor space to spread them out. Perfect World Entertainment seems to think...
Oh look.

Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2017

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As Counting Crows told us, it's been a long December, although the fact that it has also only just started being December speaks to...

Star Trek Online celebrates Christmas with giant nerf guns

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No matter what the stardate, it's Christmas season for Star Trek fans, and that means a few things. For starters, it's time to dig...

Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO stories of 2017

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One thing you can say for the MMO industry: It never ceases to surprise all of us. No matter what predictions we may make...

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