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Battle Bards Episode 164: Away with the fairies
If you ever walked into a forest glade at the light of the first full moon of the year, you may spy an impish...
Perfect Ten: Son of conversations with anthropomorphic MMO studios
It has been a while since I've had any more conversations with anthropomorphic representations of MMO studios. Why? Because it's not fun for me. Come...
Coronavirus concerns cancel SXSW, Minecraft Festival, and several FIFA 20 and Apex Legends esports events
The spreading novel coronavirus aka COVID-19 has once more seen a number of gaming-related events cancelled or otherwise postponed.
First off is the collective...
Jukebox Heroes: Star Stable’s secretly amazing soundtrack
If we ever mention Star Stable around these parts, it's usually with a bit of tongue-in-cheek. You know, "Hee hee, horsies!" said by middle-aged...
Shroud of the Avatar croons over its Bardic skill tree
If you know anything about us here at Massively OP, it's that any news of Bards being added to MMOs brings the most beautiful...
Rend’s music won the 2019 IFMCA Award for a video game score despite sunset
The world can be a weird place. Rend has won the 2019 International Film Music Critics Association award for Best Original Score for a Video...
Black Desert’s ominous O’dylitta update is launching ‘later this year’
Remember back at E3 and Heidel Ball last year, when in the midst of the hoopla around Black Desert's Shai and Great Expedition expansion...
Battle Bards Episode 163: EverQuest upgraded
The Battle Bards return to the verdant fields of EverQuest for a look at the updated and remastered soundtrack that came out last year. If you...
Warframe of Mind: The mental health implications of Chains of Harrow
Previously on Warframe of Mind I extolled the virtues of Warframe’s Chains of Harrow mission. It definitely deserved praise: I loved the spooky, intense...
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...
The Stream Team: Headbanging at AQ3D’s Breaking Benjamin battle concert
It's time for AdventureQuest 3D's third battle concert! Rocking out for the audience today (and for the next two weeks) is Breaking Benjamin. Massively...
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...
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...
Warframe of Mind: The creepy charm of Chains of Harrow
Slowly but surely, I have been making my way through Warframe's story missions. And while understandably story and lore may not be the first...
Jukebox Heroes: Elder Scrolls Online’s Elsweyr soundtrack and music boxes
While I wasn't that impressed with Elder Scrolls Online's launch soundtrack, the scores for both Morrowind and Summerset did much to win me over....
Battle Bards Episode 161: Dragon Quest X
While Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIV is enjoying rousing success here in the west, its other MMO — Dragon Quest X — never made...
Guild Wars 2 touches on Raven Portals and hidden events in a livestream
The most recent episode of Guild Chat from Guild Wars 2 perhaps wasn't too revelatory, but it did touch on a couple of things...
Jukebox Heroes: The best of Furcadia’s soundtrack
Back in 2017, I bit the furry bullet and tackled the oddity that was Fucadia -- a very old MMORPG that just so happened...
thatgamecompany’s multiplayer adventure Sky: Children of the Light is coming to PS4 and Nintendo Switch
Some of my fondest multiplayer memories came from the PS3 game Journey, which came from the devs at thatgamecompany, who were responsible for similarly...
EVE Online spools up the hype for EVE Fanfest 2020
It's nearly time to "party at the top of the world" as EVE Online puts it. EVE Fanfest 2020, probably the greatest time of...