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Five years ago, we flipped a switch, let the site go live, and published our first article as Massively OP. It was from Justin,...

Earlier this week, we reported that former World of Warcraft Team Lead Mark Kern had very publicly posted that he was quitting WoW...

MMOs shut down. This is just kind of a reality. It's an unpleasant one, but we also are collectively aware that it happens and...

Last week, Kotaku put up a compelling piece about the online gaming industry's obsession with esports - specifically, how the esports bubble is...

As with the larger video game market, sequels aren't unknown in the MMO space. We've seen studios take a stab at following up successful...

Hindsight is 20/20. Unless you're blind in one eye from nostalgia, in which case hindsight is 0/20. In any case, you understand that it's...

It's been a while since we checked in on Em-8ER, Mark Kern's frustratingly named "massive planetary wargame," so we're rectifying that today. MMO players...

So what has Mark Kern's Em-8ER been up to these past couple of months? The team shared the latest news about the giant...

It's true that we lost a lot of MMOs in 2016 -- bigger and more important ones than in 2014 and 2015. 2017,...

We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head...

December's many article roundups and awards always remind us that it's hard to remember what happened last month, let alone what happened way back...

If you happened to catch the Massively OP Podcast this week, you heard my positively livid rant about the whole Marvel Heroes...

One thing you can say for the MMO industry: It never ceases to surprise all of us. No matter what predictions we may make...

Every MMO tells a story through the run of its life. A lot of those stories are pretty happy, too. Ultima Online may...

Justin and Bree discuss Firefall's sunset, WoW's datamining, Wild West Online, Secret World Legends, Tibia, and Warframe, plus a mailbag question on how MMOs could ditch pure DPS roles.

Firefall fans can cross their fingers hoping for the promised mobile edition, but we wouldn't put too much stock in waiting for it....

Do not go gentle into that good night forever, Old MMOs should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the...

Did our article yesterday on MMOs in limbo knock one loose? Probably not, but one of them is sunsetting all the same:

The one thing that I thought we could all count on forever was that the MMO life cycle was pretty easy to understand. A...

If you were worried that Mark Kern's Em-8ER (properly pronounced "eem-eight-er" for those willing to die upon snarky hills) wouldn't fund on...