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Grand Theft Auto Online just hit peak monthly concurrency – and it’s five years old
There aren't many online games that can honestly say they're still growing and setting records years and years after their launch, but that's exactly...
Exclusive: Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever on the superhero MMORPG genre
Ship of Heroes is super-jumping right into 2018 with two documents of note. The first is a retrospective of what the Heroic Games team...
LOTRO Legendarium: Looking back at the road we traveled in 2017
"The road goes ever on" is one of the most well-known phrases from Lord of the Rings, alluding to the ongoing journey of the...
Massively OP’s Weirdest MMORPG Stories of 2017: Horse butt
Today we're kicking off a countdown of Massively OP's weirdest MMORPG stories of 2017!
Coming in at #5 on our list is...
World of Warcraft finally...
The ultimate guide to The Game Archaeologist’s MMO archives
When we moved over here to Massively Overpowered, some of us transplanted our long-running columns to the new space. I perhaps felt most devastated...
On the tenth day of Christmas, Warframe gave me ghastly ghouls and personal quarters
Is this Christmas or Halloween?
One can never quite tell with Warframe, which activated its holiday update yesterday with a bounty on ghoul packs. These...
Secret World Legends patches in winter event, barbershop, and plastic surgeon
Even with Tokyo completely reinstated into Secret World Legends, this reboot is still finding more content to add back in after starting over from...
Shadow’s Kiss devs interview vampires as their Kickstarter nears finish line
Even though it's looking more like Christmas than Halloween around these parts, Shadow's Kiss is taking its Kickstarter all the way to the bank....
LOTRO Legendarium: They’re taking the Hobbits to Erebor!
With some depressing news bouncing around the MMO genre as of late, it was particularly welcome to read an upbeat and exciting producer's letter...
Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2017
Stately resting between the gaudy purple and orange of Halloween and merry red and green of Christmas is the earth tone-saturated Thanksgiving. While no...
Lord of the Rings Online is heading to Northern Mirkwood, Erebor, and Minas Morgul
Don't get too comfortable in Mordor just yet, because Lord of the Rings Online is preparing to send its players to the far reaches...
MMO Mechanics: What can be learned from Guild Wars 2 Mountgate?
Most often, MMO Mechanics articles focus on the gameplay mechanics that both make the MMO genre unique and those that diversify MMOs from one...
Dragon of Legends hopes to get on Steam soon
It has been a long while since we heard anything about Dragon of Legends, a pixel art-style indie MMORPG that ran a small but...
Disney has canceled Marvel Heroes, Marvel has ended its relationship with Gazillion
We can now confirm this as real, following a statement made by a Marvel representative to Massively OP. We're updating below.
According to Kotaku, Disney...
Marvel Heroes’ update silence has stretched to four weeks; here are the latest developments
I'm afraid we still can't say that Marvel Heroes is going to be OK, as we've now gone an entire month since the last...
Dauntless wraps up Halloween, gives testers a reset button
Continuing its mission to teach people across the world that if an animal is big enough it should be killed, Dauntless has pushed out...
EverQuesting: Reflecting on EverQuest II’s 13th year
I am particularly fond of the number 13. And I am particularly fond of EverQuest II. So it is a happy convergence of favorites...
Working As Intended: Guild Wars 2’s new mount licenses are still lockboxes, but they’re not the worst lockboxes
Pretty much everyone assumed that back when Guild Wars 2 planned out mounts, it did so with its cash shop in mind. The game...
The Stream Team: Onward into MU Legend’s open beta
MU Legend opens its beta doors today, and ends its Halloween event. Did Massively OP's MJ miss a Halloween celebration? The horror! She's racing...
Shroud of the Avatar opens a trio of new mines for lowbies, gets ready for Christmas
Players who want to get a jump start on their Shroud of the Avatar crafting career might end up taking a tour under the...