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Tamriel Infinium: Unpacking the Elder Scrolls Online presentation at E3
Elder Scrolls Online is obviously a huge draw for MMORPG players, but it's far from an exciting title for the vast majority of gamers attending...
The Stream Team: A Gigantic step out of the comfort zone
With Gigantic shuttering soon, Massively OP's MJ has only a few more chances to get in and play her favorite characters (and flay her...
Perfect World is sunsetting Swordsman Online and Jade Dynasty as teams move on to ‘bigger and better things’
Perfect World announced two sunsets yesterday: Four-year-old Swordsman Online and nine-year-old Jade Dynasty will close down in June. Here's the official announcement for Swordsman...
Perfect Ten: MMO missteps that didn’t have to happen
Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...
Perfect Ten: A dozen MOBAs that didn’t make it
With the insane success -- both in terms of popularity and finances -- that Dota and League of Legends spawned, you can easily understand...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online’s new outfit system is close to perfect
I can spend hours with an outfit designer in an MMORPG. When APB was a new thing, I literally spent whole game sessions in...
Global Chat: What is the population of Guild Wars 2?
Does it matter how many people are playing your MMO? For some, yes, it does. It's at least of passing interest to others, especially...
Trove’s Heroes expansion adds superhero-themed city and class this spring
Today is a positively massive day for fans of Trove - and fans of superheroes, for that matter - as Trion is announcing a...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 156: Downfalls and uprisings
Justin and Bree discuss MMO and MOBA sunsets, WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Alganon, DDO, Star Citizen, and Blade & Soul, plus a bit about Ultima Online and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on Guild Wars 2's classes and the state of MMO communities.
PWE will sunset MOBA Gigantic in July because it couldn’t ‘break through in a crowded market’
Gigantic is on the short road to sunset, I'm sorry to report.
The move by publisher PWE won't surprise many players, as the development studio...
Conan Exiles gets a handle on giant two-handed swords
It's hard to imagine barbarians without gigantic weapons that take a whole lot of muscle to swing. So it's good to see Conan Exiles...
MMO Year in Review: WoW Classic and the doom of Marvel Heroes (November 2017)
We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...
MMO Year in Review: July was the high mark of the year for MMORPGs (July 2017)
We’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head into...
Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2017
As Counting Crows told us, it's been a long December, although the fact that it has also only just started being December speaks to...
MassivelyOP’s 2017 gift guide for the Blizzard fanatic
With the new expansion, official vanilla servers, and all of the other news from BlizzCon this year, it's a great time to be a...
Gigantic has a number of Infernal options for its big November update
How's everyone feeling about Gigantic right about now? Probably just a little conflicted, given the shuttering of its development team and its rather ambiguous...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 143: BlizzCon strikes back
Justin and Bree discuss BlizzCon, WoW's Battle for Azeroth expansion and legacy servers, Marvel Heroes' drama, the fate of Motiga and Runic, DCUO, WildStar, Kritika, and Wild West Online, with a mailbag question on MMOs that lock classes and races behind paywalls.
PWE confirms Motiga layoffs and Runic Games closure, but MOBA Gigantic will stay up
Last night, we reported on multiple employees and former employees' allusions to the closure of Motiga Games, the studio behind MOBA Gigantic. "Today marks the...
Rumor: Motiga, the studio behind Gigantic, is closing down
Multiple employees and former employees are tweeting tonight alluding to the closure of Motiga Games, the studio behind MOBA Gigantic.
"Today marks the end of...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs where you can live out your giant robot fantasies
Two years ago, NCsoft dealt a harsh blow to a certain subset of gaming fans when it canned the development of Project HON. This...
