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Global Chat: Checking out EverQuest II’s Reign of Shadows
Haven't had time to check out EverQuest II's latest expansion yet? Telwyn from GamingSF has you covered with some first impressions of Reign of...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: MMO Expansion of the Year
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for MMO Expansion of the Year, which was awarded to Final Fantasy XIV's Shadowbringers...
Whatever happened to ReWorld Online?
For the past two years, we've been keeping tabs on the interesting make-your-own-fantasy-realm ReWorld Online. In May 2019, the project split into two games:...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2020
Earlier this week, we named our biggest MMO story of the year and gave it an award, though we imagine it's hard for a...
Stardew Valley update 1.5 is live on PC with new farm type and advanced options
Solo developer Eric "ConcernedApe" Barone has once more blessed the timeline with another peek at features of today's Stardew Valley update 1.5 - specifically,...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2021
So... 2020 didn't go exactly as anyone planned. Our predictions for this past year were pretty janked up by that whole pandemic thing and...
Vague Patch Notes: The verbs of MMOs
Even if you don't like crafting, you should care if your MMO of choice has meaningful crafting. And you should especially care if it...
World of Warcraft’s Ion Hazzikostas evaluates Shadowlands’ launch
Now that we're approaching a month of exploring Shadowlands, Blizzard and players alike have a better idea of how the World of Warcraft expansion...
Flameseeker Chronicles: An honest second look at Guild Wars 2’s dragon response missions
As longtime readers surely know, Flameseeker Chronicles is an opinion column, one of many on Massively OP, though this one's about Guild Wars 2....
Wisdom of Nym: The highlights of Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 5.4 notes
One of the things I still love about covering Final Fantasy XIV are the patches. These things are always bulky in terms of added...
The Soapbox: Pet battles are one of the best things WoW ever did (which is why I’ve never played one)
Pokemon first burst onto the scene when I was in elementary school. I've always been lukewarm at best toward anime and "cute" things, so...
Desert Oasis: Black Desert Online should be 2020’s MMO of the year
Well here we are again, heading to the end of another year. And while many are eager for this year to end, us gamers...
First impressions of World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, part two: Endgame experience
Once you get to max level in World of Warcraft, the game changes. This should not be a surprise, as it has been the...
The Soapbox: How Pathfinder killed World of Warcraft for me
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands launches today. I will not be playing. Once upon a time, a new WoW expansion would be a major event...
World of Warcraft makes good on its new multiboxing policy, confirms delay of endgame grinds until post-launch
Earlier in the month, we reported on a shift in World of Warcraft's multiboxing policy that was going to leverage action against those who...
Huge Lord of the Rings Online Q&A talks Gundabad, River-hobbits, Brawlers, and 2021 plans
Lord of the Rings Online players have been clamoring for a lot more communication from SSG this year, especially from the game's higher-ups. This...
Perfect Ten: The 10 qualities of MMO sandboxes
What is a sandbox MMO? At first glance, it seems like a pretty easy question to answer, especially if you're going by Kickstarter projects,...
Amazon’s New World demo: Fishing, Reekwater, and hands-on havoc
It's certainly been rough seas for Amazon's upcoming New World over the past year -- especially with a significant change of development direction for...
Black Desert Mobile announces the Grand Desert expansion and plans for a one-year anniversary
There are a whole lot of future plans for Black Desert Mobile waiting in the wings, chief of which being some new content in...
Early access game Mini Healer: ‘Like healing in an MMO but actually fun’
Love your healers. Respect your healers. Appreciate them. Empathize with their plight in correcting your overzealous chase for DPS or your forgetfulness for turning...
