fantasy
Desert Oasis: A first look at Black Desert’s Dark Knight’s Succession skills
The Dark Knight holds a special place in my heart when it comes to Black Desert. She was the main reason I decided to give...
The Soapbox: Cross-play, console exclusivity, and why companies won’t play nice
Let me tell you something: As the columnist who writes about Final Fantasy XIV I am so damn tired of hearing about crossplay. Seriously. Just so...
Guild Wars 2 lost yet another dev, this time a key living world designer
If you're starting to get more than a little worried about the line of developers departing ArenaNet, you're not alone. As the Guild Wars...
Black Desert previews succession skills, begins new Mysterious Knight event
Black Desert isn't letting a little thing like Thanksgiving and Black Friday get in the way of big updates across its multiple versions. Here's...
The Daily Grind: What narrative MMORPG has a weak story?
So here's the frustrating thing to me when it comes to Guild Wars 2: There is so much to enjoy and admire about the...
The Stream Team: MOP’s first maps in Path of Exile
Massively OP's MJ managed to complete Path of Exile's story before ExileCon, but there's one more thing on her pre-Conquerors of the Atlas bucket...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 248: Saying farewell to Aradune
Bree and Justin mourn Brad McQuaid, dip into Guild Wars 2, side-eye Stadia, imagine 20 more years of LOTRO, and enjoy watching EVE Online and Star Citizen's cons fight. Plus we tackle two mailbag questions about MMO genre positivity and playing solo in MMOs.
Choose My Adventure: Pushing boundaries and building a better house in Citadel Forged with Fire
As we come to the close of our Citadel: Forged with Fire adventure, we decided to push the absolute limits of how far we...
Not So Massively: A Year of Rain is a promising RTS with a co-op focus
A Year of Rain sounds like the title of an introspective indie movie about overcoming depression. It also sounds like an accurate description of...
Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2019
Pass the cranberry sauce, we're having mashed potatoes! Oh the turkey looks great! Thank you for loving me, thank you for being there, thank you...
RuneScape lets players rear dinos, Old School RuneScape beta tests the Nightmare of Ashihama
Whether you want to raise dinos or take on horrifying nightmare monsters, both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape have you covered respectively with some...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Deep-diving Guild Wars 2’s Whisper in the Dark storyline
The first episode of Guild Wars 2’s new Icebrood Saga, Whisper in the Dark, has been out for a week now. MOP's Tina has...
MassivelyOP’s 2019 gift guide for the PC hardware aficionado
With the holidays coming up - Black Friday chief among them! - you're surely thinking about what PC upgrades will keep you entertained through...
Job postings point to an incoming Unreal Engine upgrade for Lineage II
Hey, you know what the MMORPG world needs? Another version of Lineage II! This one, however, doesn't appear to be another wholesale mobile version...
ExileCon 2019: Summing up Path of Exile’s epic inaugural con (plus all our photos!)
Other than the pre-con jitters of devs unsure what to expect or how things would ultimately go, you wouldn't know that ExileCon 2019 was...
Fans hold a solemn memorial of Brad ‘Aradune’ McQuaid during a livestream
The death of developer Brad McQuaid is still being acutely felt by many in the MMO gaming community, and no more is that apparent...
Wisdom of Nym: What we still don’t know about Final Fantasy XIV Shadowbringers
Ah, the grand world of the known unknowns! We're only one patch into this particular expansion, but there's still plenty of stuff to speculate...
Square Enix has begun issuing bans to Final Fantasy XIV dataminers
How do you feel about dataminers? If you're within the Final Fantasy XIV community, you likely know that datamining is against the terms of...
The MOP Up: Destiny 2 worships the sun
That glowing ball of thermonuclear radiation in the sky might just mean warmth and crispy tans for you, but for Destiny 2, it is...
One Shots: If it doesn’t have a tail, it’s not a monkey
No lie, when I had pulled up this screenshot from reader Vincent, I happened to be listening to "Big Ape City" from Donkey Kong...
