lord of the rings
MassivelyOP’s 2020 Golden Yachties: Most bizarre thing in an MMO this year
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards begin today, now affectionately named the Golden Yachties in honor of that dumb meme about how games bloggers are sailing...
The Stream Team: Say yes to the Yule in Lord of the Rings Online
The Yule Festival has returned to Middle-earth, but it may be in danger! Lobelia Sackville-Baggins was named the official Yule-planner of Hobbiton this year,...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Player Housing
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Player Housing, which was awarded to The Elder Scrolls Online last...
One Shots: Memories in crystal
We don't just take screenshots of MMOs to impress each other but to cement memories that would otherwise fade away to the ravages of...
The Daily Grind: Are you playing the same MMO at the end of 2020 that you were in January?
I always find it interesting to look back over the gaming journey that I took during the year. If I rewind the calendar all...
Tencent moves forward in buying Leyou Technologies for over a billion bucks
Throughout the 2020, we've been covering the many companies competing to buy up Leyou Technology, the holding company that both owns the majority of...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Biggest MMO Blunder of 2020
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Biggest MMO Industry Blunder of 2020, which was awarded to Blizzard last year...
Lord of the Rings Online now lets you change your character’s race
If your Lord of the Rings Online Dwarf secretly yearns to walk in the secret ways of the Elves, or if your Hobbit would...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Trend of 2020
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Trend of 2020, which last year went to the rise of...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Most Underrated MMO
Welcome to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year 2020 awards!
Every year, we poll our writers on the best and worst MMOs, stories, studios, and trends and...
The untold story of Lord of the Rings’ cancelled MMORPG
Considering how popular the Middle Earth IP is, it is no surprise that there have been multiple stabs at creating a Lord of the...
Lord of the Rings Online starts Yuletide, improves PvP, and unlocks progression Gondor
The term "kitchen sink" gets tossed around by a lot of people who have very little experience with installing sinks, such as yours truly....
MMO Business Roundup: Activision’s Netflix lawsuit, Tolkien’s house, Roblox in China, and more
Welcome back to another quick spin through MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Fortnite - It doesn't look as if gaming companies are feeling too hopeful...
Jukebox Heroes: The quieter side of Lord of the Rings Online’s soundtrack
Yes, I'm kind of nuts about the Lord of the Rings Online soundtrack. It could be because I've played this MMO more than most...
LOTRO Legendarium: What Daybreak’s sale revealed about LOTRO
Just when I thought we were getting to a quieter point in the year where I could engage in a leisurely wrap-up of the...
Lord of the Rings Online boasts at least 11,000 quests
Maybe at this point, Frodo and Sam should feel some pity toward the rest of us. After all, Lord of the Rings Online players...
Lord of the Rings Online composer revives his music company after ponzi scheme fiasco
Two years after fraud ruined his company, Chance Thomas is back.
The Academy Award-winning composer (and composer of great portions of Lord of the Rings...
Console LOTRO and DCUO’s huge playerbase: Everything we just learned about Daybreak thanks to EG7
MMO twitter has been ablaze since yesterday's announcement that Daybreak is being bought up in its entirety by Swedish games company Enad Global 7,...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO surprises of 2020
Whew. We're finally getting close to the end of 2020, and I think I speak for all of us when I say that it...
LOTRO, DDO, EverQuest, DCUO, and PlanetSide 2 studio heads reassure players about Daybreak sale
Following yesterday's revelation that Daybreak has been sold to Swedish company Enad Global 7 for $300M, the bosses at Daybreak's substudio have all now...
