interviews
Shroud of the Avatar’s Richard Garriott on launch and philosophy following equity crowdfunding announcement
Last week during its seasonal telethon, Shroud of the Avatar's lead developers surprised watchers by announcing an equity crowdfunding campaign that allows players and...
Chaos Theory: Interview and impressions of Secret World Legends
I may or may not be in that secretive NDA-locked closed beta of Secret World Legends -- I'm not telling. But there is something...
Marvel Heroes got you a cake plus half-price heroes for its 4th birthday
Marvel Heroes is turning four years old this weekend - can you believe that? That's four years of freebie heroes, blowing stuff up, baby...
Massively Overthinking: 2017’s MMORPG zeitgeist
This time last year, I polled the Massively OP writers for their opinions on which MMOs had had the best year, or half year,...
LOTRO releases 10th anniversary soundtrack
A week after announcing Composer Chance Thomas' return to score the upcoming Mordor expansion, Lord of the Rings Online revealed another musical treat. The...
EVE Online’s space police get iPod makeover, patch coming June 13
Coming June 13th to a New Eden near you is an early summer patch for EVE Online. The space MMO is getting several ship...
Choose My Adventure: Exploring the purpose and plan of this community column
You are no doubt staring at the title image above and thinking to yourself that it really does not look like a Neverwinter screenshot....
Marvel Heroes interview on PC vs console, new characters, and whether PvP is dead
A few weeks ago as pre-launch hype for Marvel Heroes Omega on console was reaching its zenith, we reached out to Gazillion with questions...
Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood preview: Our interview with Naoki Yoshida
Don't miss the rest of our Stormblood preview coverage!It would be wrong to say that Final Fantasy XIV is the work of Naoki Yoshida...
LOTRO confirms Chance Thomas’ return to score Mordor, says it will be his ‘darkest’ work yet
It was perhaps the worst-kept secret for Lord of the Rings Online's upcoming Mordor expansion, but now it's officially confirmed: Composer Chance Thomas is...
Improbable’s plan for rescuing the MMO genre from ‘nuclear winter’ involves a crapton of money
Improbable keeps popping up in news stories relating to MMOs lately -- that's thanks to SpatialOS, what the company is calling a "distributed computing...
Hands-on with En Masse action MMO Kritika Online ahead of closed beta
If you are a fan of action and anime, you might want to keep your eye on Kritika Online. Although this game has been...
Dean Hall on his third attempt to build a space station sim with Stationeers
Stationeers, an upcoming multiplayer survival sim, marks Dean Hall's (DayZ) third attempt to create a space station title. In a recent interview with PC...
Destiny dev admits to drawing dungeon inspiration from World of Warcraft
For all the allergies Bungie has to admitting the Destiny games are MMOs, the dev team is not shy about admitting that it drew inspiration...
The Survivalist: ARK Survival Evolved discusses early access, launch, and wipes
Could ARK: Survival Evolved finally be launching? That's a question many survivors would love to see answered soon. Unfortunately, we can't provide you with...
Exclusive Wild West Online interview on PvE servers, budget, and Red Dead Redemption 2
Here at Massively OP, there's nothing we like to hear more than word that new, bold, and big MMORPGs are in development. Over the...
Order and Chaos asks gamer moms for their stories
Order and Chaos, everyone's default generic mobile MMO suggestion since 2011, became surprisingly vocal following this past Sunday's Mother's Day. Gameloft took the time to...
Ashes of Creation meets Underrealm stretch goal, eyes $2M in crowdfunding
With well over two weeks to go in its Kickstarter campaign, Ashes of Creation has already outpaced similar efforts from Chronicles of Elyria ($1.36M...
The Stream Team: Live Ashes of Creation interview
The Ashes of Creation Kickstarter is in full swing, steam rolling ahead with new stretch goals reached again and again. And there's new news...
Massively OP Exclusive: Hard questions about Secret World Legends
We sat down with Funcom to ask tough questions on The Secret World / Secret World Legends transition. (Video interview.)
