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WRUP: How to properly cook a cheeseburger but you stop in the middle to microwave a soda can for some reason edition
Editor's note: Please do not do this, or any other thing recommended by WRUP. Just tell us what MMOs you're playing this weekend, and maybe answer the bonus question - this week's is about quotable movies.
Massively OP Podcast Episode 457: Sailing into February with cannons blazing
Justin and Bree discuss Skull & Bones, FFXIV on Xbox, WoW Classic, New World, and Nightingale, with adventures in LOTRO, Elder Scrolls Online, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on day and night cycles and getting out of MMO gaming ruts.
WRUP: Taylor Swift throws the first football at the Superbowl edition
Before any contest for initial possession of the football begins, a visibly tired Taylor Swift walks onto the field wearing sweatpants, a loose blouse...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 456: The MMO housing show
Justin and Bree tackle a theme proposed by the listeners, as this show is all about MMORPG housing, including why housing matters, post-launch housing patches, placement tools, prefab vs. custom houses, housing as part of the gameplay loop, apartments vs. instanced vs. open-world housing, incentivizing housing use, taxes and monetization, and integrating housing into MMO ecosystems.
WRUP: How to get ham from snakes edition
All right so I'm not actually sure what you need to learn here. For one thing, ham is a meat that comes from pigs....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 455: Odyssey to the abyss
Justin and Bree discuss Riot's and Blizzard's layoffs, the death of Blizzard's Odyssey, Palworld, Kritika, The Day Before, and Star Trek Online, with adventures in Guild Wars 2 and City of Heroes, plus a mailbag topic on memorable fluff loot.
WRUP: Chuweo edition
Hey everyone, I know that generally speaking these entries for What Are You Playing are just ridiculous and you can totally ignore them if...
Perfect Ten: The 10 most utterly bizarre Final Fantasy XIV NPC names
A lot of times when I write these columns, I have either a point to make or a higher concept that I am touching...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 454: MMO roadmap roundup
Justin and Bree discuss the 2024 roadmaps for Lord of the Rings Online, Lost Ark, World of Warcraft, Guild Wars 2, EVE Online, Elder Scrolls Online, New World, EverQuest, EverQuest II, and Wayfinder, with adventures in LOTRO, FFXIV, and City of Heroes.
WRUP: A spectacular story about Lyle with help from Wikipedia edition
Lyle is a great guy who was born in Scotland in 1987! Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Wait,...
Perfect Ten: The weirdest weapons from MMOs of yore
Swords. Staffs. Maces. Spears. Wands. Bows. Crossbows. Double-crossbows. Hammers. Wolverine claws. Daggers. Axes. Deadly? Yes. Fashionable? Not so much. A two-handed sword is so...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 453: Massively minds of the roundtable
Justin, Bree, Chris, and Sam sit for a roundtable to discuss the MMOs we've been playing, our highlights for 2023, the MOP awards, and the state of the genre.
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v7.0
Once again we put a wrap on another year of MMORPG news, opinions, and -- most pertinent to this column -- history. In a...
WRUP: Learn Portuguese by assuming that every language you don’t know is probably the same edition
Hello. My name is Stanley Seagull. Like many of you, I have long wished that I knew Portuguese so that I could speak with...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 452: A staff roundtable for a new year
Justin, Eliot, MJ, and Carlo sit for a roundtable to discuss the MMOs we've been playing, our highlights for 2023, the MOP awards, and the state of the genre.
MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2023: Weirdest Thing an MMO Company Sent Me This Year
We're finishing out our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP's weirdest MMORPG stories of the year!
Coming in at #1 on our list is…
Literally a Can of...
WRUP: Last WRUP and testament edition
I, Eliot Lefebvre, being exceedingly depressed for so many very valid reasons and a couple of wholly speculative ones which sort of torpedoes "sound...
MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2023: MMO Most Likely to Make Us Wake Up Screaming
We're continuing our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP's weirdest MMORPG stories of the year!
Coming in at #2 on our list is…
Diablo IV's lucid dreaming sleep...
MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2023: Weirdest thing MMO gamers did to win a forum argument (yes, again)
We're continuing our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP's weirdest MMORPG stories of the year!
Coming in at #3 on our list is…
Leaking more military secrets
For the...
MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2023: Weirdest Use of AI in MMOs
We're continuing our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP's weirdest MMORPG stories of the year!
Coming in at #4 on our list is…
NetDragon's AI CEO
This piece is...