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End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMO expansions of 2024
Around the Massively OP office, the common consensus is that 2024 ended up being the Year of the MMO Expansion. After all, we got...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives, 2024 edition
While MMORPGs constitute a shifting, ever-evolving market, their history remains surprisingly evergreen. That's what history is: Facts and stories stamped and preserved for our...
LOTRO promises more details about upcoming 64-bit servers in January
As Standing Stone Games' dev team spins down for the holidays, one final 2024 LOTRO stream came out of the studio last week tidying...
The Stream Team: Night Falls on Stormreach in Dungeons & Dragons Online
The healers of House Jorasco in Dungeons & Dragons Online discovered that a cult called the Disciples of Rage plan to attack the Night...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
Dungeons & Dragons Online’s latest update addresses lag spikes caused by pets and hirelings
Dungeons & Dragons Online is a creaky ol' game by Standing Stone Games' own admission, but ideally things should be working better for everyone...
Neverwinter’s seasonal Simril’s Winter Festival returns with old and new rewards
While it might be hard to get into a festive mood given the studio-ending layoffs at Cryptic Studios and financial woes for megacorp owner...
The Stream Team: Wrapping up the Gianthold Wastes Saga in DDO
The end is nigh! The end of Dungeons & Dragons Online's Gianthold Wastes Saga, that is. Tonight, Massively OP's MJ is embarking on the...
Dungeons and Dragons Online releases update 71: Fall of the Night Brigade
Did you think that you were going to get out of 2024 without becoming a rat? Your number's up, pal, because Dungeons and Dragons...
Lord of the Rings Online’s Yuletide Festival arrives this week with new rewards
One of Lord of the Rings Online's best annual festivals is set to return this Thursday. The Yuletide Festival arrives in all versions of...
Lord of the Rings Online sells a new Rohirrim bundle, looks for volunteer mods for official Discord
Who wants to adopt the bestest boy of all of Middle-earth? Standing Stone Games put a few Rohirrim store bundles together for Lord of...
The Stream Team: Hobgoblins and A Cabal for One in Dungeons & Dragons Online
Massively OP's MJ and her D&D night crew are on hand to help open the gates into Gianthold Tor in DDO. However, apparently a...
Enter to win a Neverwinter Swashbuckler Companion Pack to celebrate Return to Pirates’ Skyhold
In celebration of last month's multiplatform launch of Neverwinter's latest module - As Above, So Below - Return to Pirates' Skyhold - Arc Games...
The MOP Up: New World’s deadly laser turkey
"What started as an office joke about a giant turkey with laser eyes turned into an actual world boss when one of our AI...
The Stream Team: A Prison of the Planes in Dungeons & Dragons Online
Who would tour an abandoned prison complex? Massively OP's MJ and her DnD night crew, that's who! Also, a cloud giant commander, Nimbus ar'Yorg,...
Dungeons and Dragons Online previews Update 71: Fall of the Night Brigade
The old Wheloon Docks area in Dungeons and Dragons Online is getting a much-needed infusion of content thanks to Update 71, which is currently...
Neverwinter 30th module, Return to Pirates’ Skyhold, is live on PC and console today
As promised and foretold by publisher Arc Games, Neverwinter's 30th module ever is officially live on PC and console simultaneously today. The module, with...
Neverwinter unvaults Dread Sanctum dungeon November 19 and reruns the Harvester of Nightmares event
When Neverwinter announced its Return to Pirates' Skyhold module release, one of the features it talked up was the return of the Dread Vault...
MMO Business Roundup: Embracer Q2 2024, Steam toxicity, and GOG’s game preservation program
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Embracer
Embracer - the failson megacorp we keep an eye on because...
LOTRO kicks off legendary item Season 12, DDO patches in performance improvements
The first patch for Lord of the Rings Online's newest expansion arrived this past Wednesday. Update 42.1 unlocked the third tier of Legacy of...
