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Warframe reverts beam weapons to their older state with extensive rebalancing
Once, beam weapons in Warframe were hitscan weapons that dealt appreciable damage and were accurate to a pinpoint. They had a balance problem, though,...
Neverwinter offers a tour of the Fane of the Night Serpent
Snakes. Why did it have to be snakes? Well, because Neverwinter is currently lousy with snakes, that's why. Specifically, the Yuan-ti have a center...
The Stream Team: Where Dreams Die in SWTOR
Well then! The title of KOTET’s Chapter IV in SWTOR is not ominous at all! We don't know about dreams, but Massively OP's Larry...
TERA’s Xbox One and PS4 open beta lands March 9
If you can put that poor panda from yesterday out of your mind, TERA has some fantastic news coming at you today: After several...
Old School RuneScape turns five, kicks off $20000 prize pool tourney
It's time for parties and cake in Old School RuneScape. That's because the throwback version of the game is turning five years old today....
Players throw a party for this week’s Shroud of the Avatar update
Any excuse for a large-scale shindig is a good one by us. For the players over at Shroud of the Avatar, the title's consistent...
Age of Conan’s saga server shares class distribution chart
If you've rolled up a Dark Templar on Age of Conan's newish saga server, then just know that you're not alone. At level 80,...
The Stream Team: Investigating Khalid’s unburnt bush in Secret World Legends
Remember the old Moses look-alike Khalid on the hill in Secret World Legends? He has an investigation mission that Massively OP's MJ is going...
Neverwinter AMA gets into the specifics of system design
The Neverwinter system designers were on hand this week for an Ask Me Anything on Reddit about the title. Naturally, it drew a crowd...
TERA’s Male Brawler class gets a March 13 release date
To celebrate the latest class to be added to En Masse's TERA, the studio released a short trailer of a gauntleted fist beating the...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online’s new outfit system is close to perfect
I can spend hours with an outfit designer in an MMORPG. When APB was a new thing, I literally spent whole game sessions in...
Perfect Ten: What I discovered after returning to Dungeons and Dragons Online
When I look back at last year, the most surprising turn in my MMO gaming career was staging a successful return to Dungeons and...
RIFT Prime progression server launches March 7, with pack preorders available now
Can you believe RIFT's been around for almost seven years? Neither can we. Trion is celebrating by releasing the long-awaited progression server, RIFT Prime,...
The Daily Grind: What is the best-designed MMO class you’ve ever played?
There are good MMO classes and bad classes. There are well-designed ones and ones that just never gelled. But every once in a while,...
Path of Exile shows off its new boss fight with Vilenta
With the next major patch (numbered 3.2, for reference) for Path of Exile, players are going to have other things to contend with in...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 158: We are all heroes
Justin and Bree discuss Final Fantasy XIV, Closers, Guild Wars 2, Trove, LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, SWTOR, Secret World Legends, and Tree of Savior, with mailbag questions on lockboxes without gambling and sunsetting working MMORPGs.
Star Trek Online teams up with Mixed Dimensions for 3D printed ships (again)
It's been about a year and a half since Star Trek Online first announced that it would be offering 3D printed versions of player...
Neverwinter shows off the ruined undercity of Omu
If there's one universal rule to cities, it's that they've got some other ruined underground city you can also explore because cities work like...
Get a bird’s eye view of LOTRO’s new Mirkwood map
Sometimes you can learn an awful lot from an in-game map.
Take for example Lord of the Rings Online's Northern Mirkwood map, which testers have...
Secret World Legends shows off its new Agent system in brief
If you're eagerly awaiting new missions to run in Secret World Legends, you're going to have to keep waiting a bit longer. But you...
