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Perfect Ten: A guide to podcasts for your favorite MMOs

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Clearly, your Tuesday schedule every week should have a big fat "LISTEN TO MASSIVELY OP PODCAST" written at 4:00 p.m. EST right on it....

One Shots: Where do you find penguin wear?

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When you head out to the final frontier in Star Citizen, make sure that you take your favorite, um, penguin? Sure, that sounds like...

Massively Overthinking: Are you susceptible to second-hand MMO hype?

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So there's a thing going around the MOP virtual offices lately: Elite Dangerous hype. Between Chris and Ben especially, the excitement for Odyssey is...

Stick and Rudder: Nine non-combat activities to enjoy in Elite Dangerous

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I’m horrible at combat in Elite Dangerous. It took me several tries to get past the bot in the combat tutorial. Not the advanced...
May foulness attend thee.

End-of-Year Eleven: The best-value MMOs at the start of 2021

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What exactly is value, especially when it comes to MMOs? We all know what the word means, but the thing about "best value" is that...

Massively Overthinking: Retaking Quantic’s survey to determine our ‘gamer type’

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Five years ago - yes, it's been that long! - we did an Overthinking in which our staff all took Quantic's survey to see...
Yum yum rocks.

Elite: Dangerous encourages players to choose the location of the Galactic Summit

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The first Galactic Summit of the the three major galactic powers in Elite: Dangerous is going to be happening soon, and players are getting involved...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 305: Restoring faith

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Justin and Bree discuss Elite Dangerous' Odyssey delay, LOTRO's latest mishaps, Guild Wars 2 Power, Pirate101 and the KingsIsle sale, and FFXIV's Ishgard restoration, with a Daily Grind blitz and mailbag topics on WoW Shadowlands, seeing how the sausage is made, and lifeskill-centric MMOs.

Carpet-bombing Elite Dangerous’ Odyssey settlements is probably a bad idea

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With Elite Dangerous' Odyssey expansion delayed a smidge for PC and into fall for console, players have nothin' but time, so you may as...

Massively Overthinking: What MMO were you hoping to hear much more about this past year?

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So 2020 wasn't exactly the year a lot of us probably thought it was going to be in early January. Every bit of our...

Grim Dawn teases Shattered Realm additions as Crate announces new strategy game

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Grim Dawn had a pretty good year in 2020, in spite of the ubiquitous challenges facing the world. According to a dev blog from...

Elite Dangerous has delayed Odyssey’s PC launch to late spring, console launch to fall

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When Frontier Developments opened preorders for Elite Dangerous' Odyssey expansion last month, most gamers presumed the launch was just around the corner. And it...
Hope for light.

Perfect Ten: The top MMOs to watch in 2021

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"MMOs are dead!" "MMOs are dying!" "We didn't get any good MMO releases this past year!" While I won't argue with the last one there,...

Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2020

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Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's weekly and sometimes biweekly recap of the big news in crowdfunded MMOs. If you're...

Why I Play: Elite Dangerous is the space sandbox we’ve been looking for

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Elite: Dangerous was not on my radar when it appeared on the scene back in 2014. I had already spent my money buying a...

Elite Dangerous’ latest Odyssey dev diary focuses on FPS combat

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In the latest hype builder for Elite: Dangerous' forthcoming Odyssey expansion, the devs of the game talk up the various features and foci of...

Here’s how to get ridiculously festive ship skins in Elite Dangerous tomorrow

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Have you ever wanted your Elite: Dangerous spaceship to look like a literal flying present? Then you’ll get your extremely specific wish granted by...

Torchlight III’s Snow & Steam update is live with updates for Forged and Forts

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Torchlight III is emulating the blizzard smacking the Northeast US right now by dumping winter all over the gameworld too. Today's Snow & Steam...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 301: Hurtling into Oblivion

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Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online's Gates of Oblivion, Crimson Desert, Elite Odyssey, Ark 2, Black Desert, WoW Shadowlands, PSO2, LOTRO, EverQuest, and FFXIV, with adventures in WoW, SWTOR, and CoH, and a mailbag topic on CoH Brutes that spirals into meta and endgame discussion.

Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2020

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We have a fun end-of-the-year tradition on MOP to recap the best and worst MMO developer quotes of the year. In fact, I keep...

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