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Massively OP Podcast Episode 135: PAX in the P.M.
Justin, Bree, and MJ discuss PAX West, Secret World Legends, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, EverQuest II, Destiny 2, WoW, ArcheAge, and WildStar, plus a mailbag question on Destiny and raiding.
PAX West 2017: SMITE’s new conquest map, Paladins Strike, and the fate of SMITE Rivals
Just because SMITE and Paladins weren't available to play at PAX West doesn't mean that there wasn't stuff to learn about the games from Hi-Rez!
I...
PAX West 2017: Hand of the Gods’ Japanese pantheon and the possibility of 2v2
While the full Hi-Rez portfolio wasn't in attendance at PAX West, Hand of the Gods was on-hand with a fan tournament as well as...
Looking at Secret World’s ‘dangerous’ roleplaying scene
"It was supposed to be fiction, but the developers and then the fans started blurring the edges of the game. It turned out that the...
One Shots: I think I’m turning Japanese
I've got your picture of me and you
You wrote "I love you," I love you too
I sit there staring and there's nothing...
Camelot Unchained wows DragonCon attendees with thousands of battling bots
Camelot Unchained wasn't in attendance at PAX West last week, but it had a good reason: The team was at DragonCon instead for a...
The Stream Team: Fighting through Secret World Legends’ Darkness War dungeon
Before Massively OP's MJ can say see ya later to Secret World Legends' Blue Mountain, she needs to take one more trip into the...
Secret World Legends adjusts controversial raid reward lockout
While new -- or at least, warmed up and re-served -- content is all well and good for Secret World Legends, the player community...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMOs of 2017’s PAX West
PAX West 2017 has come and gone, and though MJ is still feverishly working on her last few articles, we wanted to pause a...
Secret World Legends’ raid update and Manhattan Exclusion zone are now live
Level 50 Secret World Legends folks, get ready to raid... again. Funcom's just released the New York raid to the relaunched and retooled MMO.
"The...
Secret World Legends considers tweaking raid lockout timers
Among the bits and bobs going live in Secret World Legends' update today is a set of raid lockout timers that look positively antiquated...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that changed their names
Names and titles fascinate me. While sometimes they have no deeper meaning than to sound pleasant and be memorable, a label can indicate purpose,...
Funcom will still love Conan Exiles when the new baby is here
Longtime Funcom watchers and MMORPG veterans already knew that Funcom was working on multiple games as part of its Conan franchise push, but some...
Camelot Unchained designs beta siege battles
It's not hard to imagine the Camelot Unchained fan as a curious and excitable prairie dog popping up whenever the word "beta" is mentioned....
Secret World Legends devs talk next week’s patch and beyond
With some wind at its back thanks to a launch that exceeded studio expectations, Secret World Legends and its development team dare not slow...
LOTRO Legendarium: Is Mordor too difficult?
If there's one topic of discussion that I've been hearing a lot in world chat, on the forums, and among my kinship, it's about...
Global Chat: Has No Man’s Sky finally arrived as a full-featured game?
It's been a year since the disastrous and controversial launch of No Man's Sky, a game with failings that included, among many others, a...
Camelot Unchained on the perks of RvR PvP and overdelivering on tech promises
Were you worried that Camelot Unchained would slack off on its newsletters whilst in the pre-beta crunch? You needn't have -- this month's missive...
Secret World Legends is bringing back legacy transfers
Wait, who said it was OK for it to be September already? Well, while we are here, we might as well enjoy the pumpkin...
Massively Overthinking: Female characters and gender-locked classes in MMOs
One of the reasons I gravitated to and stick by the MMORPG genre in spite of its many ups and downs (oh, so many...