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Working As Intended: 10 City of Heroes Homecoming base builds you need to see
This winter, I've been obsessed with City of Heroes Homecoming's supergroup base builds, which as we've previously discussed here in Working As Intended are...
Vague Patch Notes: MMORPGs and the PC gaming market
I find myself thinking a lot about the MMORPG industry lately and the ways in which the gaming industry as a whole has changed...
Working As Intended: A guide to City of Heroes Homecoming’s best player-crafted portal bases
A few years ago, I was wandering around in City of Heroes when someone advertised a cool base in chat. All I had to...
Working As Intended: City of Heroes macros and popmenus for noobs
In my first braindump on City of Heroes for this column, I tried to ease superhero fans into the world of modding the 20-year-old...
First Impressions: Palworld copied all the right homework to graduate as its own enjoyable game
You know how the back of a box of Hamburger Helper or other boxed dinner mixes encourage you to toss in extra ingredients to...
Massively on the Go: Preparing for Pokemon Go’s Los Angeles Sinnoh Tour
Pokemon GO's Sinnoh Tour is coming to Los Angeles February 16th-18th, but despite its already being sold out, Niantic is still dangling some key...
Vague Patch Notes: Why we drift away from MMORPGs we still love
Why did I stop playing Star Trek Online? Was it because there was some change made to the game that made it no longer...
Working As Intended: Yes, you can make money as a newbie in City of Heroes
Something I've heard over and over from commenters and even newbies in City of Heroes Homecoming ever since the official license was announced is...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO shows little love for February
Pokemon Go's roadmap for February is out, but once again leakers have deflated some of that potential hype Niantic tends to squander anyway. While...
The Soapbox: Casuals and soloers need challenging MMO content too
In a recent press Q&A around the announcement of Elder Scrolls Online's Gold Road chapter, Zenimax creative director Rich Lambert appeared to dismiss the...
Working As Intended: How to mod City of Heroes Homecoming the easy way
If you played City of Heroes a long time ago - or even back in 2019, when its secret server blossomed into a public...
Vague Patch Notes: Early access is just game development as performance art
I was reminded recently about Valheim. I do not own the game and thus have not played it; I cannot tell you if it...
Vague Patch Notes: What City of Heroes Homecoming means for the wider MMORPG industry
As you have probably noticed from the fact that I have been writing about City of Heroes nonstop since the Homecoming server got its...
Vague Patch Notes: The real question every MMO has to answer
Why am I here?
A lot of times I will slow-roll my column and lead to something unexpected, something that I am sure you are...
Four Winds: Catching up with Phantasy Star Online 2 New Genesis
I believe it was Napoleon Bonaparte that once said "SEGA better release Phantasy Star Online 2 stateside or I'm going to conquer France." Unfortunately,...
Casually Classic: 12 quality-of-life improvements coming with Cataclysm Classic
I'm in a very strange place in relation to the upcoming Cataclysm Classic. I kind of didn't want this expansion to happen at all for...
The Soapbox: Hearthstone is probably in for another boring year in 2024
I recently got a survey in my email on Hearthstone and its future. The last time a Hearthstone survey got sent out, the idea...
MassivelyOP’s complete 2023 awards recap and debrief
As we did in 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, today we're going to recap our annual awards and other articles from...
Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2023
If preserving MMORPGs is your jam, 2023 was not a great year. The one nice thing I can say about it is that we...
Casually Classic: Analyzing WoW Classic’s 2024 roadmap
With another year debuting this week, Blizzard was more on the ball than some MMO studios by already publishing its roadmap for 2024. Two...
