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Perfect Ten: Time travel in MMORPGs

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Over the years, I've been fascinated with the concept of time in MMORPGs. It's one of those things that developers probably don't want you...

Flameseeker Chronicles: 5 brilliant Guild Wars 2 YouTube content creators

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I often find that playing Guild Wars 2 leaves me with more questions than answers when it comes to lore and story predictions, build...

Video: Everything you need to know about Star Wars: The Old Republic’s 5.2 War for Iokath, live today

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After a week-long delay, Star Wars: The Old Republic launches its first major patch to the Knights of the Eternal Throne expansion as Update...
It's a house, you see.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward in review – side stories, part two

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Boy, I will be really miffed if this winds up taking more time than I have until Final Fantasy XIV's second expansion arrives. I...

EVE Evolved: Video highlights from EVE Fanfest 2017

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For a few days each year, hundreds of EVE Online players from across the world flock to a frozen volcanic rock at the top of the world for...

The Game Archaeologist: SOE’s The Agency

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The graveyard of Sony Online Entertainment and Daybreak Game Company is certainly full enough to be considered a threat if there was ever a...
REAP

Choose My Adventure: Learning to appreciate Black Desert

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First and foremost, I'd like to thank the many people who informed me about how to hide the UI in Black Desert. I shouldn't...

The Survivalist: Massively OP’s guide to survival games, single-player and beyond

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As Massively OP is centered on the "massively" part of gaming, it makes sense that my first guide to survival games was focused on...
This was a television show.

Perfect Ten: Conversations with anthropomorphic concepts of MMO studios

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Every so often, a man needs to have a conversation with some anthropomorphized concepts. I do that every few years. In the past, I've...

Tamriel Infinium: Am I playing Elder Scrolls Online wrong?

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Elder Scrolls Online and I have had an on-again-off-again relationship for the last several years. A lot of that relationship stemmed from my being...

EVE Fanfest 2017: EVE Online plans amazing new PvE gameplay

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Today's EVE Online is a far cry from the empty but hopeful sandbox released back in 2003, having constantly re-invented itself for over 14 years...

Jukebox Heroes: Your top six favorite MMO music themes

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After over a month of voting and counting down, we've arrived at the final six picks for your favorite MMORPG theme songs of all...
Still in the dark.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward in review – side stories, part one

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Here's a fun fact: I don't actually know how long this series of columns is going to be at this point. That shouldn't affect...

LOTRO Legendarium: Playing second fiddle to the Fellowship

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Back when Lord of the Rings Online was being developed as Middle-earth Online in the late 1990s, the original concept was to plop players...

Guild Chat: Should I quit my MMO because of in-guild bullying?

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Welcome along to another advice-filled edition of Guild Chat, the column through which the Massively OP community can both offer pearls of wisdom to...

EVE Fanfest 2017: Hands-on with competitive VR sports game Sparc

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At the end of February, CCP Games announced a new game that has nothing to do with EVE Online or even the EVE IP. Named Sparc,...

EVE Fanfest 2017: EVE Online joins the hunt for exoplanets through Project Discovery

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The scientific community has been buzzing lately with the incredible news that a star system less than 40 lightyears away named TRAPPIST-1 was found...

The Survivalist: ARK’s big bird nerf

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I know I said part two of the survival guide, containing a host of single-player survival games, would be the next entry in this...

Hands-on with TERA’s new Valkyrie class

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Last month, TERA's community chose the name of its new class, and next week players will get to not only see that Valkyrie in action...
Someone's dropping a solo album, from the looks of it.

Choose My Adventure: Muddling through the start of Black Desert

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After my first week of playing, I don't know if I actually like Black Desert very much. I also don't know entirely if it's...

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