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Funcom’s Q3 2016 financials hint at large Secret World update in early 2017
Fans of The Secret World should be excited today, as Funcom's third quarter financial report to investors reveals that "The Secret World team is mainly...
Perfect Ten: The craziest things The Secret World has asked me to do
As I am fond of saying, there is no MMO that I've ever played that has the capability of being so frustrating and downright...
Jukebox Heroes: MMORPG music for a haunted Halloween
You simply can't have a good and proper Halloween without a perfect soundtrack to back you up. Sure, you could just pop in one...
The Game Archaeologist: Six Halloween holidays from buried MMOs
There are two things to know about Halloween and MMOs. The first is that just about every online game in the known universe puts...
Warframe players can host their own servers for certain game modes
Warframe's PvP scene is about to get even more brutal when The Index arrives in the game. The update, which was tested over the...
Perfect Ten: Ten ways to bond with your kids over MMOs
Back in 2009 I made the transition into parenthood, an advanced class that I still don't think I'm quite qualified for. Since then I've...
Massively Overthinking: Real solutions to the MMO toxicity problem
Toxicity. It's plagued online spaces since long before there were MMORPGs and other online video games, as any old school BBS user can attest....
Cloud Pirates sails into its first closed beta test, shows off ship classes
Who doesn't like a flying airship, particularly when its heavily armed and given license to slug it out with the other traffic on its...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 87: Rise of Stormblood Rising
Justin, Bree, and Eliot discuss FFXIV Stormblood, WoW, SWGEmu, The Secret World, Daybreak, SHSO, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on replacing SWG and retiring with MMORPGs.
The Stream Team: Thar be a Pirate101 birthday today!
Shiver me timbers, it's a birthday! Pirate101 is celebrating its fourth birthday today, and Massively OP's MJ is joining in on the swashbuckling fun....
Massively Overthinking: The classes MMORPGs never do
No one wants to play Uncle Owen, a certain MMORPG exec famously said -- except, you know, for all the people who really, really...
Warframe cordially invites you to a real-world digital wedding
If you've played MMORPGs long enough, you've probably been to at least one in-game wedding -- maybe even one for your own character. But...
Smed adds family inheritance to Hero’s Song’s to-do list
If you missed our live Hero’s Song interview with John Smedley on OPTV, you missed a couple of tantalizing tidbits. One involved family ties...
Gazillion to sunset Marvel Super Hero Squad Online in January 2017
When I first joined the Massively crew back in 2010, the very first long-form piece I did was on Super Hero Squad Online, a Marvel-themed...
Cloud Pirates enters closed beta October 18, begins selling founder packs
My.com announced this week that its Allods Online-inspired sky-MOBA Cloud Pirates will enter closed beta next week on October 18th. The company has likewise put...
The Daily Grind: Are you tempted by Amazon’s new Twitch Prime service?
Last night at TwitchCon, Amazon and Twitch announced a new service they're calling Twitch Prime. Basically it's an added perk of an Amazon Prime...
Cloud Pirates invites select players into this weekend’s friends and family test
Cloud Pirates, the MOBA set in the Allods Online universe, is hosting a friends and family test this weekend. Why should that concern you?...
Interview: Chronicles of Elyria’s Jeromy Walsh on post-Kickstarter funding
Yesterday evening, following the news that indie sandbox Chronicles of Elyria hoped to raise an extra $3 million in addition to its Kickstarter funding,...
The Game Archaeologist: The Island of Kesmai
It was the mid-'80s, and I was just a kid in love with his family's IBM PC. Not having a wealth of capital at...
Chris Metzen departs Blizzard, World of Warcraft for retirement
Chris Metzen announced this evening that he is leaving Blizzard and "retiring" -- and he says he means it.
Formally Blizzard's Senior Vice President of...