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The Stream Team: A first peek at EverQuest II’s Planes of Prophecy
Norrath has expanded! EverQuest II's Planes of Prophecy expansion launched today, and Massively OP's MJ just has to explore it. Can she find her way...
Saga of Lucimia dev argues that minimaps destroy MMORPG immersion
Saga of Lucimia has made a name for itself during its long development as a hardcore old-school indie MMO with a focus on grouping...
Raph Koster takes Rolling Stone to task over vanilla World of Warcraft
Don't ever test Raph Koster on MMORPG history, because you'll probably lose.
The Star Wars Galaxies and Crowfall designer challenged a recent Rolling Stone article and...
EverQuest II takes you inside a volcano base for next week’s expansion
What would it be like to live and work inside a base located at the center of a volcano? Hot, you think? Probably hot....
Just Survive gives players a choice of maps, hands out free reward crates
Just Survive, the H1Z1 castoff that is looking to... just survive, made a bold play this week with a significant update to some of...
EverChaosing: Counting my EverQuest II and Secret World Legends blessings
Good things come in three's right? Well this is the third installment of the EverChaosing column, which melds Chaos Theory and EverQuesting together. Why...
The Daily Grind: Do you want to see the return of experience-loss-on-death in MMORPGs?
Last week, I mentioned experience-loss-on-death in EverQuest that was particularly irritating when caused by so-called GM events. Yes, that was in the long long...
H1Z1’s latest patch adds a new insta-respawn map and new dailies
Daybreak has big plans for H1Z1 -- that's the game formerly known as H1Z1: King of the Kill, you'll recall, as it was rebranded...
The Stream Team: PlanetSide 2 turns 5
Birthdays and bombs go so well together... if you are PlanetSide 2, that is! The MMOFPS turns five years old today, and Massively OP's...
EverQuest II previews the Bastion of Thunder
Really, no one should be building a stronghold just to control portions of the weather. It leads to all sorts of problems later on....
The Daily Grind: Are you thinking of WoW Classic as a totally new MMO?
Early on in all the WoW Classic hoopla, I'd been thinking of World of Warcraft legacy servers as the sort of gimmick servers that...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO would you recommend to Marvel Heroes refugees?
So Marvel Heroes has about six weeks to live thanks to the impending shutdown of the game following Disney's decision to drop Gazillion as...
DC Universe Online patches in Earth-3 adventures today
This morning, the DC Universe Online servers went down to apply the game's next major patch. They may or may not be back up...
Hyperspace Beacon: Assessing SWTOR one week after the big server merges
Many people believe that server merges are innately bad because in games like ArcheAge (or even all the way back to Star Wars Galaxies),...
The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on WoW’s proposed new PvP system?
Buried in the World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth reveals earlier this month was the huge PvP news that eventually, PvP servers, like the...
EverQuest II takes you to the Plane of Magic
Did you realize that EverQuest II is going to release its latest expansion this month? Well, it's November, so that should have been a...
Perfect Ten: A list of all the MMORPGs I supposedly hate
Did you know about all the MMOs I hate? I sure as heck didn't! I mean, I knew there were a few games I...
EverQuesting: Reflecting on EverQuest II’s 13th year
I am particularly fond of the number 13. And I am particularly fond of EverQuest II. So it is a happy convergence of favorites...
The Stream Team: Happy 13th birthday EverQuest II!
Massively OP's MJ is ready to celebrate: One of her favorite games turns 13 years old today. EverQuest II is a teenager! The Heroes...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 143: BlizzCon strikes back
Justin and Bree discuss BlizzCon, WoW's Battle for Azeroth expansion and legacy servers, Marvel Heroes' drama, the fate of Motiga and Runic, DCUO, WildStar, Kritika, and Wild West Online, with a mailbag question on MMOs that lock classes and races behind paywalls.
