lord of the rings
The Stream Team: Moving through Moria in LOTRO
Massively OP's MJ has been taking part in LOTRO's Ill Omens event, but she's hit a big snag: She never finished enough epic questlines...
Interview: Saga of Lucimia on themepark design, SWG inspiration, and the MMO genre
Last week, we ran an interview with Stormhaven Studios' Tim Anderson, the boss behind upcoming MMORPG Saga of Lucimia. That interview was focused on...
LOTRO Legendarium: Five ideas for special servers in Lord of the Rings Online
At PAX East recently, Standing Stone Games teased some details of Lord of the Rings Online's future. I'm going to hold off on talking...
DDO and LOTRO’s Standing Stone Games is hiring a character artist
Considering how small Standing Stone Games' team is at the moment, the announcement that it is hiring a Dungeons and Dragons Online and Lord of...
One Shots: Breaking the speed of awesome
Face it: No matter how long you live, you'll never look as amazing as Utakata here in Blade and Soul. Apparently she's being shot...
Interview: Saga of Lucimia on funding, development, launch, and business models
Upcoming MMORPG Saga of Lucimia has been somewhat dark over the last year as its developers hunkered down to develop rather than hype. But...
LOTRO’s future includes River-Hobbits, Mission feature, and a new type of server
The folks over at MMO Central have posted a couple of interviews with Standing Stone Games that sheds some additional light on Lord of...
Lord of the Rings Online introduces a new raid and several class adjustments in its latest update
Hope you're up on your Sindarin, because the latest content update for Lord of the Rings Online has a whole mess of it. Specifically,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 261: PAX yay, GDC nay
Justin and Bree discuss PAX East, GDC, the coronavirus' impact on gaming, Magic Legends, Population Zero, Marvel Future Revolution, LOTRO and DDO, Funcom and Dune, and City of Heroes, plus adventures in AQ3D, CoH, and SWG Legends, with mailbag topics on everything MMOs and the doom of WildStar.
One Shots: The Mo Army marches on
Has there ever been a figure as majestic, as inspiring, as armor-plated as Massively OP mascot Mo? Probably, but that didn't stop our antsy...
PAX East 2020: LOTRO plans Aragorn and Arwen’s wedding plus 2021 expansion as DDO teases unicorns
If you skipped out on PAX because of contagion concerns, or just missed the Standing Stone party last night because all the MMOs piled...
Get a look at Lord of the Rings Online’s elaborate Rohan housing
The recent stealth debut of Lord of the Rings Online's Rohan housing on the test server excited a game community that hasn't seen new...
Jukebox Heroes: Ten MMOs that strongly support their soundtracks
It's one thing to put a lot of music in your MMORPG or even to release that launch-day album. It's another thing entirely to...
One Shots: Imitation and flattery
If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then MMO players are the biggest flatterers in the world. When we're not making avatars to...
The Soapbox: Why does it feel like I don’t have time for an MMO when I really do?
This guest Soapbox was commissioned through MassivelyOP's Patreon program and is authored by Steve "Sray" Blouin, a name our longtime commenters will surely recognize...
Lord of the Rings Online aims to fix session play, opens Ill Omens skirmish event
There was an interesting thread on the official Lord of the Rings Online forums earlier this week asking Standing Stone to make the combat...
Battle Bards Episode 162: Mystery abounds
Do you love a good mystery? A hidden secret? A riddle wrapped in an enigma and presented on a platter of puzzle? Then you’re...
Global Chat: How fares WoW Classic at the six-month mark?
The phases (i.e., patches) for World of Warcraft Classic continue to roll out, and as the endgame takes form and Darkmoon Faire arrives, it's...
LOTRO Legendarium: Revisiting Riders of Rohan in Lord of the Rings Online
It's finally time: We're heading back to Rohan. On Lord of the Rings Online's progression servers, at least -- the live servers have hosted...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG do you wish got a glow-up?
No matter how much we love mechanics, even our most cerebral writers and readers still admit to being graphics snobs. It's human: We like...
