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More MMOs you’ve never heard of: PlaneShift, Stendhal, Ashen Empires, Zezenia, and Project Diaspora
Think you've seen it all and played it all in regards to MMORPGs? There's always a lot of smaller and lesser-known games out there,...
Vague Patch Notes: The fads and the curious (and why Overwatch’s star is fading)
So it's beginning to look a lot like the Overwatch fad has faded. It was a crazy couple of years there, but the fact that...
EVE Evolved: Seven of the best EVE Online fan videos of all time
EVE Online has a long history of incredible cinematics and player-made videos, but that legacy has somewhat fallen by the wayside in recent years....
Star Citizen is working on planets and tech, and also Chris Roberts’ kids are adorable
This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse is... let's call it mini, clocking in under five minutes. But CIG's Chris Roberts and Eric Kieron...
Atlas fires a broadside of patches as player retention stays strong
The Atlas team wasn't kidding when it said that it was going to be pumping out patches left and right going forward. The new...
The Stream Team: Saving snow forts for LOTRO’s Yuletide
Yuletide festivities are always fun in LOTRO, and that's where Massively OP's MJ is hanging out. There are Frostbluff festivities galore as well two...
EverQuesting: Why I’m hesitant to jump on Daybreak’s lifetime membership deal bandwagon
Well there's something I wasn't expecting, and I admit it: I am not really sure what to think about it. Daybreak just jumped on...
The MOP Up: Echo of Soul returns
Korean MMO Echo of Soul is now back on Steam early access after the title was shut down back around 2015 and 2016. It's...
Worlds Adrift toggles on proximity-based voice chat, engine overheating, and ciphers
You couldn't get enough of mouth-breathing and kids yelling at their mothers in some state far away from you in Fallout 76, and now...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 200: Daybreak strikes back
Justin and Bree celebrate 200 episodes with discussion on site memories, plus Daybreak, Wildcard's Atlas, Ashes of Creation, Warframe, LOTRO and DDO, and Path of Exile, with mailbag topics on finding time to game and how studios should manage hype.
UK parliament committee will investigate addictive tech, lootboxes, and harmful gamification
Given that UK researchers this year found a "relationship between problem gambling and the use of loot boxes" as well as determined that problem...
The MOP Up: TERA’s Valkyrie goes to console while Vainglory comes to PC
No matter what platform you're on, there's good stuff coming your way! TERA's Valkyrie update is finally making the jump to Xbox One and...
Star Stable is not horsing around with its Winter Village update
On this week's MOP Podcast, Justin and I fielded a great question from a reader about non-combat MMOs. On our (depressingly short) list was...
So-called gaming addiction and Fortnite myopia aren’t just a problem for The Children
If you're over that whole lockbox politics thing, you can always fall back on the moral panic that's gripping parents and teachers instead: video...
The FTC commits to investigating video game lootboxes following US Senate subcommittee hearing
Readers following the long-running lootbox/lockbox debate will recall that back in February of this year, New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan, who sits on the...
Red Dead Online leaks hint at battle royale mode as beta begins for the cool kids
If you bought an Ultimate Edition of Red Dead Redemption 2, what are you doing reading this article? Go play Red Dead Online. It's...
The Daily Grind: When was the last time you saw something truly heartwarming in an MMORPG?
A few weeks ago, my husband found himself in a bit of a reorienting Overwatch match. There was a young kid on chat sounding super depressed,...
The Game Archaeologist: Castle Infinity, the MMO that was literally rescued from a dumpster
In the grand history of MMORPGs, kids games seem to have it rougher than most. Developers have had a hard time cracking into that...
Nearly a third of the kids surveyed in the UK Gambling Commission’s study admitted to buying lockboxes
The UK Gambling Commission's Young People & Gambling 2018 report was released this month with disturbing statistics for the role gambling is apparently playing...
Massively OP’s 2018 gift guide for the MMO fan
Hello, readers! It's pre-holiday-shopping-season sale time again, and our sales team has put together a selection of artisanal hand-crafted MMOs and not-so-MMOs for the...
