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The Daily Grind: How much does the metagame influence your MMO picks?
A lot of people like to lie to themselves and say that the metagame in a given MMO does not influence any choices they...
Elder Scrolls Online’s AMA addresses everything from DDOS attacks and scribing to bifurcated content difficulty
Elder Scrolls Online's devs sat for a lengthy ask-me-anything thread on Reddit this week - feels almost old-school now, doesn't it? - and the...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO enters its Shared Skies season without sharing much info
We're entering the summer season in Pokemon Go, and this one is called Shared Skies. If you ignore the repeat info from the upcoming...
Elder Scrolls Online is giving away a two-person horse mount for… playing the game
If you're the kind of person who loves to cook up her own spells, then you were probably already going to dig deeply into...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online Cross Faction Heavy Strike Wing Escort Bundle in our Unparalleled giveaway
In celebration of Star Trek Online's PC launch of Season 32: Unparalleled, Cryptic has kindly granted us gift codes to raffle to our readers!...
MMO Week in Review: Cataclysm II
World of Warcraft has been rent asunder with Cataclysm - again - as this week the expansion cracked open WoW Classic.
Meanwhile, we worried about...
Lawsuit accuses Activision and Facebook of partial blame in deadly 2022 school mass shooting
The 2022 mass shooting that took place at Robb Elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, is one of the most shameful events in the US...
Second Wind: The problem with World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight’s class design
It's time for part two of this four part Second Wind series on revisiting World of Warcraft after many years away. In the first...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Previewing Guild Wars 2 Secrets of the Obscure’s final chapter, The Midnight King
It's strange to say it after just one year, but Guild Wars 2's Secrets of the Obscure era is drawing to a close! Don't...
MMO Week in Review: Pandaria Remix, Loot Reborn, Wayfinder Echoes
What a hell of a week for the MMO genre! Good and bad, as it were. We got previews of FFXIV Dawntrail, Guild Wars 2's...
Guild Wars 2’s The Midnight King, the last Secrets of the Obscure update, launches next week
The last and final entry in Guild Wars 2 Secrets of the Obscure content rollout is upon us in just one week: The Midnight...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Gold Road introduces a massive new game-wide meta achievement
If achievement hunting is your jam in MMORPGs and you're an Elder Scrolls Online fan, you're going to get a lot more out of...
MMO Week in Review: V Rising, Legends of Aria, Corepunk, and WoW Dark Heart
We had a mediumly newsy week here in the massively multiplayer world: Wagadu Chronicles announced a shutdown mid-early access, Legends of Aria Classic properly...
LOTRO Legendarium: Is it worth being a zone completionist in LOTRO?
We need to start today's column with one important disclaimer: There's no right or wrong way to play Lord of the Rings Online, only...
Enter to win a copy of the newly launched V Rising on Steam courtesy of Stunlock
With the full launch of V Rising and its 1.0 update today, Stunlock Studios has kindly granted MassivelyOP a stack of game keys to...
MMO Week in Review: Back to playing Uncle Owen, this time in SWTOR
Star Wars The Old Republic timed the announcement for its next big thing perfectly for Star Wars Day: This week, the team revealed GU...
Why I Play: Stardew Valley is still something special
I'd been saving this for myself for weeks now. It was late Saturday when I finally decided it was time to stop waiting and...
Massively on the Go: April showers didn’t bring Pokemon GO May event flowers
April was a rough month for Pokemon Go, as the game failed to deliver on Earth Day - an event Niantic used to champion...
MMO Week in Review: The deaths of ArcheAge and BlizzCon 2024
This was definitely not my favorite week in MMO history: Not only did we get sunset announcements for both ArcheAge and Genfanad but Blizzard...
Hearthstone’s latest balance patch focuses on nerfing cards that ‘remove player agency’
If you've played a collectible card game of any stripe, you're probably familiar with card combos and deck strategies that effectively make it impossible...
