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Massively Uplifting: Warframe fights cancer, Square Enix helps the Red Cross, and Extra Life 2021 looms
Summer has ended, school has started, and now the leaves have begun to fall as the air turns cooler. It's a time of coziness...
EverQuest’s perks are live as EverQuest II begins Visions of Vetrovia beta and preorders
In the beginning of September, we were all alerted to the incoming arrival of Perks, an additional layer of monetization on top of EverQuest's...
Perfect Ten: A completely accurate 10-point summary of MMO history
History! Let's be real here, it's pretty damn boring. No one cares about it, and it all happened beforehand, so why is any of...
World of Warcraft players grumble over Blizzard leader’s participation in boosting culture
If you thought the ousting of J. Allen Brack from the top of Blizzard and his replacement by a pair of Activision execs was...
The Daily Grind: Do you play humans or non-humans in most MMOs?
A while back, I saw a thread on Reddit about how most MMO players pick humans, and questions like this always startle me because...
EverQuest II’s Nights of the Dead Halloween event is officially live
The time for PTS testing is over and the Halloween season is now descending upon players of EverQuest II. The Nights of the Dead...
EverQuest and more Daybreak MMOs roll out Halloween 2021
EverQuest is having a good week: First Daybreak announced the game's next expansion, Terror of Luclin, and now it's rolled out the annual Halloween...
EverQuest’s 28th expansion, Terror of Luclin, is open for preorders, and it looks epic
One of the oldest games in our genre is about to get a little bigger: EverQuest has just opened preorders for Terror of Luclin,...
EverQuest II teases its upcoming Nights of the Dead Halloween event, now on PTS
It's almost Halloween time in EverQuest II, but before that the 2021 edition of the Nights of the Dead event has to go through...
Project 1999 players race to fight EverQuest bosses in a charity drive for a family
Regular readers will recall that we've previously reported on Project 1999, an officially sanctioned player-run private emulator for EverQuest, primarily regarding things like its...
Global Chat: Going back to EverQuest Online Adventures
While so many EverQuest fans are eagerly awaiting word of the next entry in the legendary franchise, at least one player is going back...
The Game Archaeologist: Tanarus, Sony Online Entertainment’s first online game
While EverQuest is perhaps thought of as Sony Online Entertainment's first online game, the truth of history tells us differently. Just as how Mythic...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 339: Kitchen sinks and the Tao of MMOs
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Funcom, Mortal Online 2, WoW Classic, EverQuest II, Star Trek Online, and Final Fantasy XIV, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on the direction of Guild Wars 2 and WoW and what's going on with LOTRO's dead servers.
EverQuest II brings back its (renamed) summer event and kicks off the prelude to Visions of Vetrovia
Panda, Panda, Panda! No, that's not a remake of the film Tora! Tora! Tora! but with adorable fluffy bears; it's the new name for...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs have you played most excessively?
I saw a fun thread on Reddit a while back I thought would be fun to pitch to our community too. The question asked...
Perfect Ten: Shapeshifting classes in MMOs
After my wife and I saw an X-Men movie a while back, we got into a discussion about what mutant power we'd pick for...
EverQuest II announces Visions of Vetrovia expansion, while EverQuest kicks off Fun Fall event
Are you ready to go on a new expedition with EverQuest II? Then set sail for this fall's expansion, Visions of Vetrovia. Daybreak just...
The Soapbox: Single-player open worlds will never equal those of MMORPGs
These days it seems like sprawling open worlds are becoming an ever more popular choice for single-player games, from the newer Assassin's Creed titles...
One Shots: En garde!
It's not always the type of sword but how you hold it, the masters say. And if you've got the spirit of a duelist...
Massively Overthinking: Overcoming barriers-to-exit in MMOs
About a thousand years ago, I wrote an article on Old Massively called "but I already have that game" about barriers-to-exit: the difficulty of...
