lord of the rings online

The return of a former Lord of the Rings Online developer has put into motion a gradual revamp of one of the game's older...

It's finally here. For a while now, Standing Stone Games has promised that it would be giving most of Lord of the Rings Online's...

Who hasn't used Google maps to check out some interesting patch of Earth? Now who hasn't wished they could do the same for Middle-earth?...

MMOs and politics once again collide this week as last night CNN broke the news that Robert Mueller's FBI team has zeroed in on...

A thinkpiece that we had back in April about the difficulty levels (or lack thereof) in MMORPGs sparked some interesting discussion among gaming bloggers...

Never say the devs aren't listening: Standing Stone Games apparently is. Lord of the Rings Online forumgoers learned this lesson today when in a player-started...

Sometimes I am just so proud of our One Shots crowd here at Massively OP. I keep coming up with ludicrous screenshot challenges and...

Look down — and it’ll be the last thing you’ll ever see! That’s because fury and death arrive in the form of short character...

Justin and Bree discuss Wild West Online, EVE Online, WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Ragnarok, Elite, LOTRO, Star Trek Online, Trove, and City of Heroes' Paragon Chat, with mailbag questions on free-to-play entitlement and whether expansions need new classes.

One of the most pleasant surprises I experienced in a while came a week or so ago when Standing Stone Games announced that it...

Buried in the Daybreak ruckus of last week was the rumor that Daybreak is not in fact merely the publisher of Standing Stone Games'...

With the prodigious and well-known appetite of Hobbits, it's a total surprise to me that the Shire hasn't been stripped bare with these creatures'...

How about those Red Sox? Seriously, that's a conversation I'd rather be having than the one that has cropped up this week -- and...

Justin and Bree host a special edition of the podcast focused entirely on the Daybreak denial and layoff story as it's unfolded.

Daybreak has now confirmed the layoffs, and we've got lots more information from our own sources - see below for updates and context. Multiple game...

Over the last couple of days, we've been covering the Daybreak scandal - specifically, how concerns over the impact of government sanctions on Daybreak's...

Ever since Standing Stone Games started ramping up the prominence of Lord of the Rings Online's lockboxes following last year's Mordor expansion, the microtransactions...

Yesterday, Massively OP put together a piece on MMO company Daybreak Games Company and its corporate overlords, chronicling the US government's asset freeze of...

It's been 11 years, and Massively OP's MJ is no where near tiring of roaming Middle-earth in LOTRO. (She's also no where near finishing...

Note: We've updated this piece heavily at the end with Daybreak's statements and further links. A chain of business connections could have a real and...