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One Shots: A game of horror
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...
Champions Online starts its four-week anniversary event
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...
PAX West 2018: PWE announces Neverwinter’s humorous The Heart of Fire module
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...
Battle Bards Episode 127: Champions Online
When you sit down to make a list of the greatest heroes that humanity has ever known, obviously the Battle Bards will top that...
Perfect Ten: MMOs with the most needlessly obtuse stats
One of my favorite reviewers of tabletop RPGs at one point opined that percentile systems were one of the best tabletop mechanics possible, simply...
Neverwinter: Ravenloft is now available on consoles
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...
The Game Archaeologist: City of Villains, enhancement diversification, and Going Rogue
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...
City of Titans teases its City of Heroes-inspired aura system
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...
Champions Online turns nine with concerts, cake, and cat-rescuing missions
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...
Hyperspace Beacon: Why SWTOR failed EA
Some have called Star Wars: The Old Republic a failure. And if former Lead Designer Daniel Erickson is correct, then EA is one of...
Perfect Ten: Anticipated MMOs I want to know a lot more about
One of the most exciting parts of covering the news here at Massively OP is that we challenge ourselves to stay on top of...
One Shots: Supporting characters
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...
Star Trek Online encourages players to make Foundry missions for a free Tier 6 ship
The Foundry in Star Trek Online allows you to make almost any sort of mission you can conceive of, but most of those missions...
Champions Online challenges you to a race
Looking for some superheroic fun to occupy your time this weekend? Champions Online has brought back its Circus Malvanum event with its vehicle theme....
Elite Dangerous’ Beyond Chapter Three launches on August 28, players take on massive effort to salute community helpers
The next phase of Elite Dangerous is en route - specifically, that's chapter three of the Beyond rollout. In a brief tweet this afternoon,...
Battle Bards Episode 126: Out of this world
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...
The Stream Team: Star Trek Online’s summer pet-a-palooza
Massively OP's MJ thought Star Trek Online's summer event was pretty fun... and then she learned it had pets! Pets! Oh no. Obviously MJ...
The Game Archaeologist: City of Heroes’ launch history and the Marvel lawsuit
In our first part of this series looking back at the stupendous history of City of Heroes, we saw how the idea for this...
Take a peek at the development of Shroud of the Avatar’s player-designed dungeon system
Drama seems to plague Shroud of the Avatar, but if you can look past it, there's some fun innovation going on inside Portalarium in...
H1Z1 has officially launched on the PlayStation 4 as Jace Hall joins the H1Z1 PC team
Daybreak's battle royale game H1Z1 has been through more ups and downs and ups again in the last few years than most games see...
