Megacorp known to MMO gamers primarily for its ownership of BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. EA has previously been the steward of Mythic Entertainment (which in turn once controlled Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot) as well as The Sims Online, Warhammer Online, and Dawngate.
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SWTOR changes up producers, teases 2017 road map
Over at BioWare, the frisky employees have tagged in a new producer to handle the title. The result is that Ben Irving is out...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs, from hardcore to casual and back again
Massively OP reader Suikoden wrote this great question to the podcast -- too good to let just Justin and me answer it. It's a...
Crowfall’s destructible castles are hungry hungry hippos
One of my favorite early MMORPG PvP memories is from Dark Age of Camelot, where I liked to position my Huntress atop my side's...
The Survivalist: Massively OP’s guide to survival games, single-player and beyond
As Massively OP is centered on the "massively" part of gaming, it makes sense that my first guide to survival games was focused on...
Battle Bards Episode 96: SWTOR expansions
“A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…”
With those words, you know you’re in for a rollicking good adventure — and some...
Perfect Ten: Conversations with anthropomorphic concepts of MMO studios
Every so often, a man needs to have a conversation with some anthropomorphized concepts. I do that every few years. In the past, I've...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 112: Heroic measures
Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes, Ship of Heroes, SWTOR, Secret World Legends, Black Desert, EVE Fanfest, LOTRO, WoW, and GW2, with reader mail on MMO dress-up and City of Heroes successors.
Jukebox Heroes: Your top six favorite MMO music themes
After over a month of voting and counting down, we've arrived at the final six picks for your favorite MMORPG theme songs of all...
BioWare delays SWTOR 5.2 for a week, might be working on KOTOR 3 and a ‘semi-MMO’
Let's rip off this band-aid quickly: There will be no SWTOR Update 5.2 today. BioWare announced on the forums that it is delaying the...
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s War for Iokath dailies allow you to play both sides
If you're angling to jump back into Star Wars: The Old Republic for GU 5.2 tomorrow, better take a look at BioWare's latest developer...
The Daily Grind: How important are player economies to MMORPGs?
One of the more alarming trends in MMORPGs from the past few years, to me anyway, is the weakening of in-game economic systems, and not...
Dark Age of Camelot beckons adventurers to a new dragonish campaign
An undead threat. A clutch of dragon eggs. Buried treasure. An unnerving disturbance.
All of these are portents of Dark Age of Camelot's latest campaign,...
SWTOR posts a trailer for next week’s big raid update
All set for next week's War of Iokath landing in Star Wars: The Old Republic? We've been getting details in dribs and drabs, especially...
Rend wants to fix the fatal flaws of survival sandboxes
It should be quite obvious that the developers over at Rend are huge survival sandbox fans, because why else would you make a game...
The Survivalist: ARK’s big bird nerf
I know I said part two of the survival guide, containing a host of single-player survival games, would be the next entry in this...
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s galaxy map gets a big do-over
Star Wars: The Old Republic is getting a new quality-of-life feature in the form of a revamped galaxy map, BioWare's Eric Musco told forumgoers...
The Stream Team: An audience with SWTOR’s Lady of Sorrows
Strike up the band! She's been elusive, but the Lady of Sorrows has found Massively OP's MJ and Larry and now the duo have...
Star Wars: The Old Republic reveals its first raid in two years
When the developers of Star Wars: The Old Republic told us they were going to focus on more group content for Knights of the...
Global Chat: The fallout over Secret World Legends
The fallout over The Secret World's reboot into Secret World Legends has spread far and wide over the MMO blogging community, with many expressing...
SuperData examines gambling practices across the online gaming industry
Gambling in video games has been a huge topic for devoted MMORPG players over the last year or so, as core MMOs like Guild...
