lord of the rings
MassivelyOP’s 2024 Golden Yachties: Best MMO critter
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the Best MMO critter. The Golden Yachties series is our run of fauxwards, named...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
Lord of the Rings Online’s 2025 roadmap includes an expansion and new 64-bit servers
I'm sorry but what is this - a Lord of the Rings Online roadmap published before Christmas?! I might still be scarred from the...
Lord of the Rings Online’s map of the Shire was used in a War of the Rohirrim film promo
We named the maps in Lord of the Rings Online somewhere in the middle among the worst to best maps in MMOs, but apparently...
LOTRO Legendarium: Looking back at LOTRO’s run in 2024
How do we sum up the entire year of Lord of the Rings Online? That's always a hard task, but if I had to...
Lord of the Rings Online welcomes back the Yule Festival, adjusts account reputation system
The snowballs are flying and the theater critics are sharpening their quills as the Yule Festival returns for another season in Lord of the...
Lord of the Rings Online’s Yuletide Festival arrives this week with new rewards
One of Lord of the Rings Online's best annual festivals is set to return this Thursday. The Yuletide Festival arrives in all versions of...
Lord of the Rings Online sells a new Rohirrim bundle, looks for volunteer mods for official Discord
Who wants to adopt the bestest boy of all of Middle-earth? Standing Stone Games put a few Rohirrim store bundles together for Lord of...
Massively Overthinking: The top three MMOs we played in 2024
I know from experience that when I list out the MMOs I want to play in a given year, it is an aspirational list....
End-of-Year Eleven: The healthiest live MMORPGs going into 2025
One of the biggest factors when choosing a potential MMO to enjoy is how "healthy" it is. In other words, is the online game...
Lord of the Rings Online opens up Mines of Moria on the 64-bit progression servers
For Lord of the Rings Online players on the Mordor and Angmar servers, it's 2008 all over again. That's because SSG is unlocking the...
LOTRO Legendarium: 10 additional helpful tips for your LOTRO journey
Every so often in this space, I like to share helpful tips and tricks to make your Lord of the Rings Online experience more...
Lord of the Rings Online dev defends the ‘meandering’ nature of the Shire
Over the years as a Lord of the Rings Online fan and columnist, I've noticed that whenever the discussion of the game's zones comes...
LOTRO continues extensive Moria rework, readies progression servers for next steps
Lord of the Rings Online's first expansion is being treated to a sweeping set of improvements on the eve of certain progression servers entering...
The Daily Grind: Should MMORPGs get back to offering roleplaying-enforced servers?
If you have been playing MMORPGs a long time, you probably remember that in the long long ago, it was super common for games...
Lord of the Rings Online is revamping Mines of Moria for the December 4 launch on the legendary servers
In the secret places of Lord of the Rings Online, the developers of legend dug too deep and unleashed a slew of antiquated instances...
LOTRO Legendarium: Riding out into Lord of the Rings Online’s Legacy of Morgoth
Anyone who knows my gaming habits understands that I am not a fan of desert zones, expansions, or even Tatooine. Sorry Luke, but it's...
LOTRO would love for kinships and players to own multiple homes
One of the frequently requested Lord of the Rings Online features is the ability to own more than one kinship hall or standard player...
LOTRO kicks off legendary item Season 12, DDO patches in performance improvements
The first patch for Lord of the Rings Online's newest expansion arrived this past Wednesday. Update 42.1 unlocked the third tier of Legacy of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 493: Landing on Brighter Shores
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO's Legacy of Morgoth, Brighter Shores' early access, ArcheAge Chronicles' delay, Chrono Odyssey, Stars Reach's trailer, and FFXIV's Crossroads, with adventures in LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and WoW Classic, plus a mailbag topic on handhelds and controllers for MMOs.
