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Last week, there was a provocative thread on the MMORPG subreddit that subverted the tired idea that the genre is "dead." It's not, u/Selphea...

Sometimes you have a deep and current reason for writing a column, something that is actively happening in the world of MMOs that requires...

The best combat-related moments I’ve had in gaming were always surprising feats or wild encounters with other players. They weren’t always victories, but those...

You know what word I love to hear from MMORPG developers? Roadmap. If you're a millennial or older, you surely remember roadtrip life before...

Gamers threaten lawsuits a lot. Most of the time they threaten lawsuits over things that aren't really something they can sue over, usually due...

One of the absolute best things the internet ever generated has been the Internet Wayback Machine. Through this site, snapshots of millions of websites...

The recent flap over Escape from Tarkov's public pronouncement of "no icky girls" (my paraphrase) as playable characters in its game elicited more than...

It's been about a week or so since we did our Overthinking on the best MMO of the decade, and I ultimately rattled off...

Here we are at the very first Fight or Kite of the New Year and of the decade. With it, let’s discuss something that...

For the music trendy in the '80s and '90s, MTV was a huge source of fascination and audio discovery. It was the edgy channel...

A few years back, we did a cheeky Massively Overthinking about our five favorite MMORPGs of all time. It was quite a potent list...

There are a lot of problems with how people tend to use lore when it comes to MMOs. I've talked about one side of...

Since becoming MassivelyOP, our staff has worked hard to buff up our gaming science-related articles. Last year, we noted that our pile of science...

When I was in high school, the Console Wars were heating up between SEGA and Nintendo. I'm afraid to report that many of my...

Here we are in a brand-new decade! (If you feel the urge to pedantically correct this, you are wrong, it's a new decade, hush...

It's 2020, people - let's do this. What do I mean by this? Unscrew our MMO living space. That one's a lot more fun...

I don't know what it is about Asian MMOs, but I'm inexplicably drawn to them. Maybe it has something to do with my background;...

She was dubbed the Tender Claw C27, and I found her upside-down and half-buried in the ground beside the final beacon of the tutorial...

Seized by what I can only describe as an incomprehensible fit of pique, I've spent a decent chunk of my free time over the...

The end of the decade is upon us. Many are now reflecting on how our lives have changed over the past 10 years. We’ve...