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Blizzard roundup: Michael Chu leaves Overwatch, Acti-Blizz gets a new COO, and WoW Classic drops a banhammer
Blizzard's been on a tear this week with staffing shifts and patches and cancellations, so let's dig in. First, probably the saddest part of...
League of Legends card game Runeterra is having a productive beta
The League of Legends game universe is rapidly expanding, and at the forefront of this new generation is Runeterra. The Hearthstone-like digital card game...
Coronavirus roundup: Virtual GDC, Overwatch League suspended, Crowfall and Funcom work-from-home
As the novel coronavirus pandemic's impact is felt across the globe, shutting down everything from international travel to the NBA to markets, it continues...
The Stream Team: Moving through Moria in LOTRO
Massively OP's MJ has been taking part in LOTRO's Ill Omens event, but she's hit a big snag: She never finished enough epic questlines...
The Siege of Neverwinter event returns to Neverwinter March 12
Protector's Enclave needs your help! Along with the rest of the city of Neverwinter during the updated Siege of Neverwinter event, which will see...
Albion Online works to limit alliances, ganking, and underwhelming loot in its latest patch
It'd be unfair to call the latest patch for Albion Online a course correction; rather, it's more of an ongoing course adjustment. Alliances, for example,...
Daybreak’s new EverQuest and EverQuest II boss Jennifer Chan addresses players in new dev blog
Last week, Daybreak's Holly Longdale stunned players of EverQuest and EverQuest II when she announced she'd be leaving the Daybreak team she's headed up...
Black Desert Mobile releases Ascension and preps for the Dark Knight, PC version continues its anniversary
There's a whole lot new in the world of Black Desert. There's updates for mobile that have brought Ascension for the game's classes, the...
Desert Arena: First impressions of Shadow Arena, the Diet Black Desert of battle royales
Did someone just cast Arcane Echo? Because this'll be our second piece on Shadow Arena this week, following its deep-dive by our PvP columnist...
Perfect Ten: Son of conversations with anthropomorphic MMO studios
It has been a while since I've had any more conversations with anthropomorphic representations of MMO studios. Why? Because it's not fun for me. Come...
World of Warcraft Classic declares Arathi Basin open for business
As World of Warcraft Classic starts to run low on the remaining PvP content to dole out to its playerbase, at least there is...
The Daily Grind: Are you a stingy MMO spender?
I like to think of myself as a fairly thrifty guy. A bulk of my Kindle library was either free or purchased on discount,...
Path of Exile shows off character empowering Cluster Jewels arriving with the Delirium League
The nodes of the passive skill tree in Path of Exile are getting some jewel slots, but it's not just because they want to...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 262: Holly Holly oxen free
Justin and Bree discuss Daybreak's Holly Longdale's departure, City of Heroes' Homecoming video ban, PlanetSide 2's Escalation, Black Desert's birthday, Cryptic's chat nuke, Guild Wars 2's next episode, changing MMO opinions, and MMO automation, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW Classic, and SWG Legends.
TERA PC patches in Kaia’s Anvil as 28 days of dungeon runs begins
PC players of En Masse's MMORPG TERA are in for a treat today with the launch of the latest content drop, Kaia's Anvil. En...
Choose My Adventure: An impressive and empowering first few steps in Albion Online
Albion Online has been one of those sandbox MMORPGs that I’d always had a passing curiosity about, but was never really eager to take...
Guild Wars 2 dev blog teases Steel and Fire’s storyline – and the Eye of the North
ArenaNet has just one week to go before the latest entry in the current Saga, Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire, hits the...
Interview: Saga of Lucimia on themepark design, SWG inspiration, and the MMO genre
Last week, we ran an interview with Stormhaven Studios' Tim Anderson, the boss behind upcoming MMORPG Saga of Lucimia. That interview was focused on...
Final Fantasy XI’s newest patch brings the Odyssey to the game
We are sorry to tell you that the latest patch notes for Final Fantasy XI do not contain any new information about yesterday's surprise that...
Bethsoft hopes Fallout 76’s Wastelanders is finally ‘Fallout with friends’
As MOP's Justin reminded me on our podcast this week, April's Wastelanders expansion really is a chance to set aside much-deserved grudges for Fallout...