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Last year, when Ultima Online turned 25 years old, I did a piece reminiscing on those early days and marveling that so much of...

EA and Respawn aren't letting that ol' Star Wars license go to waste: The companies just announced that their partnership with Lucasfilm Games will...

It was an MMO built in about three years, with a miserable launch, a depressing churn rate, and the most infamous patch in all...

When Lucasfilm Games announced its resurgence, we wondered aloud whether Electronic Arts' exclusivity contract to create Star Wars games was set to die on...

All right, history lesson time for those who don't remember: Back in 1982, Lucasfilm had created Lucasfilm Games as part of the company's gaming...

Back in 2012, I was almost a year deep into Lord of the Rings Online and enjoying my time both in the game and...

With the increased speeds of modems and the move into 3-D space in the 1990s, some game designers thought it was a logical conclusion...

One of the absolute best things the internet ever generated has been the Internet Wayback Machine. Through this site, snapshots of millions of websites...

Welcome back to another round of the MMO Business Roundup. It's GDC week, so it's no surprise that we've had so many business posts...

As a longtime Star Wars fan and former Star Wars Galaxies player, I've known there were plenty of emulators out there ripe for playing...

If you're not familiar with Habitat, that's understandable, but you can catch up on the history of the title with our own column on...

Following the early access launch of Runewaker's Guardians of Ember this week, Massively OP was made aware of player-floated allegation that the studio had misappropriated...

MOP reader Witches noted in the comments of last week's Perfect Ten that Firefly seems to be better-suited for the kind of world that...

Hat tip to Redditor dejoblue, who's reminded everyone about the fateful day back in 2005 when SOE, struggling in the wake of World of Warcraft's...

I'm kind of in love with Star Wars: Battlefront. I shouldn't be, really, because underneath the glitz and gloss, it's a pretty pedestrian multiplayer...

Some of you reading this may simply never have known a world before the internet existed by virtue of your age. It's not your...

It became one of the most infamous moments in MMO history -- and perhaps one of the most misunderstood. For all that the MMO community...

This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter donor Aldranis, whose query neatly dovetails with the IP-related question we answered on the...

Hope you're not tired of hearing about Star Wars Galaxies because Raph "Holocron" Koster's got SWG on the brain this week, and he's answering...

In previous PvP seasons for Star Wars: The Old Republic, players never had a clue what the rewards for their efforts might be until midway through...