fantasy
Leaderboard: Which of the big four MOBAs is your favorite?
OK, MassivelyOP MOBA fans, it's time to vote for your favorite game. We're going to keep it simple for today's Leaderboard, though. There are...
Fantasy city-builder Elvenar launches
Sometimes you reach a moment in your life where you have to take a side. With the launch of the fantasy city-builder Elvenar today,...
Diablo III’s Patch 2.2.0 adds and improves items
Health potions are one of the core elements of Diablo III, but they're not actually interesting to stock up on. The game has thus...
WoW Token prices fall on the first day of operation
Have you been holding on to your hat during the first day of WoW Token sales? Did you think that 30,000 gold was a...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Four fabulous Guild Wars 2 vistas worth visting
Guild Wars 2 makes me tick because the creatives at ArenaNet have laid such a unique and amazingly vast world at my character's feet, filled with...
Wurm Online player deified, founds a religion
What have you done with your online life lately? We bet you haven't ascended to godhood and convinced other players to follow a new...
Lineage II’s Infinite Odyssey expansion coming this month
Mark your calendars, Lineage II fans, because on April 22nd you're getting a new expansion. It's called Infinite Odyssey and it will coincide with...
Here’s how to jury-rig a VR alternative for Elite: Dangerous
If you've had dreams of flying spaceships in the third dimension but were too poor to afford an Oculus Rift, then one clever gamer...
Sanctions force World of Warcraft, Diablo III ban in Crimea
When gamers are caught in the crossfire of international politics, bad things can happen.
Due to US sanctions against Russia, World of Warcraft and Diablo...
Global Chat: Are MMO players too mean to game developers?
Is it too easy to forget that MMOs, like all video games, are made by people just like you and I? Belghast over at...
Neverwinter’s Elemental Evil is now available, insert Minsc and Boo joke here
For some reason it feels like we've been writing about Minsc and Boo for months. In any case, I guess we haven't been writing...
The Stream Team: EverQuest II-sday, EU edition
If you've missed out on grouping with the MassivelyOP Minions because of time zones, today is your lucky day! MJ is introducing a European...
Skyforge developers explain monetization and power
You can argue all you want over the definition of pay-to-win, but no one really likes the idea of a free-to-play game in which...
Crowfall video shows off siege concepts
Crowfall's siege mechanics are on display today in a new video highlighting the Artcraft Entertainment's current plans for taking on player-controlled cities. The video...
Guild Wars 2 hopes to reinspire interest in story
It's hard to be a Sylvari in Guild Wars 2 at the moment. After all, the plant people have an undeniable tie to the...
Black Desert fans are troubled about game changes
When the primary beta process for an upcoming MMO is taking place in another region and language, it's often difficult to understand how the...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online sucked me in with werewolves
A couple of weeks ago in Massively Overthinking, we talked about making a game sticky without vertical progression. Although the question was a bit...
RIFT chronicles the remaking of the Hammerknell raid
If you came into RIFT late in its life cycle, you missed Hammerknell. If you weren't raiding when Hammerknell was super relevant to the...
Daybreak dev muses about mobile Vanguard diplomacy game
Vanguard's diplomacy system was always one of the most-talked about features of that late fantasy title, using a card minigame to simulate conversational conflict...
Guild Wars 2 memorializes a fallen mother
Last September, a Guild Wars 2 player shared a story about his departed wife. She died from complications during the birth of the couple's...