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Justin and Bree tackle an all-mailbag show, with topics including gaming music and writing mainstream awards, MMO exploration, crafting and EVE Online, vanilla Guild Wars 2, the "one MMO" gamer, MMOs that make you want to play other MMOs, WoW transmog, Raph Koster's brain, and Shadowbane.

A Massively Overthinking roundtable about MMOs with bright future that we did a few years ago was so popular that we decided to make...

ArenaNet is going to be taking a little holiday break but not before it talks up a variety of future goodies for Guild Wars...

MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Worst MMO Business Model, which was awarded jointly to Star Citizen and Fallout...

So... 2020 didn't go exactly as anyone planned. Our predictions for this past year were pretty janked up by that whole pandemic thing and...

MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Biggest MMO Surprise of 2020, which was awarded to the revival of City...

MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Business Model, which we could not reach a staff consensus on...

MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Biggest MMO Disappointment of 2020, which was awarded jointly to the cancellation of...

Here's a fun question for you: What's the difference between the biggest surprises of a year and the biggest stories of the year? The answer,...

The festive season has returned to Tyria this week as Guild Wars 2's Wintersday has just rolled out. ArenaNet says it'll run through January...

MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with... what's this? A brand-new award? Yep! This year we're debuting a new formal award for Best...

By far, my favorite column to write here at Massively OP (and the one that always takes the longest) is The Game Archaeologist. I've...

If your Guild Wars 2 experience has seemed smoother and less fraught with performance issues as of late, that's not your optimistic mind deluding...

MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Most Improved MMO, which was awarded to Black Desert last year. All live...

MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Event of 2020, which was awarded last year to AdventureQuest 3D...

Last December, when we sat down to write out our annual MMO predictions for 2020, I don't think anyone had "biggest global pandemic in...

Welcome back to our irregular roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news! Twitch: This week, Twitch introduced yet another round of policy changes in regard...

It is only natural that, when you are shopping around for a different MMORPG to play, to consider the health of potential play candidates....

After finding the lost city, Massively OP's MJ is moving on in Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire. Next up is Chapter 9: The...

As expected, Guild Wars 2 is capping off 2020 with its holiday events in the form of the official release of Wintersday next week,...