mythology
Star Anvil’s Secret World TTRPG is about to start delivering draft digital rulebooks to backers
The progress for Star Anvil Studios' tabletop RPG rendition of The Secret World continues to make forward movement. The latest announcement post from Kickstarter...
SMITE runs charity sale to aid Maui wildfire relief efforts
Readers may have learned about a series of devastating wildfires that have caused havoc on the Hawaiian island of Maui earlier this week, with...
The MOP Up: AdventureQuest 3D players spend five billion gold… in a weekend
A recent gold boost event led to a record-breaking level of transactions in AdventureQuest 3D as players splurged on augments.
"This was a new record...
PSA: SMITE is giving away a total of 10 million gems to mark its 10th anniversary
Are you a SMITE player? Would you like some free gems cash shop currency? How about 10,000 of them? That's the offer being made...
Wow Factor: The future of Blizzard is bleak
So yesterday our Massively Overthinking roundtable asked everyone to sound off on the future of Blizzard because... well, the studio had a plan to...
The Daily Grind: Do you have hope for ArcheAge or its sequel?
To me, ArcheAge will forever be the first of many South Korean games that was heralded as bringing back the mythical prelapsarian days of...
The Daily Grind: Do you have MMOs you play for the story rather than progression?
I've recently been musing about how we create categories for MMOs in our own minds. There are those "home games," for example, that we...
The Soapbox: Why The Secret World really failed
We're back with part two of my long-overdue post-mortem of The Secret World, my favourite MMORPG of all time. In the first part I...
SMITE’s newest update adds Charon the Ferryman to the MOBA’s roster
Usually being the ferryman for the River Styx would be a pretty singular job, but apparently Charon is branching out into MOBA fights as...
Vague Patch Notes: The power of the middle bit in MMOs
I knew that Tales of Arise wasn't really working for me like its immediate predecessor when I started kind of avoiding combat.
Now, to a...
The Soapbox: A belated The Secret World post-mortem
This weeks marks the eleventh anniversary of the launch of The Secret World. While the game is still playable (for those with existing accounts),...
Massively Overthinking: Why don’t MMOs try harder to foster great guilds?
MOP reader Mahaf1089 posed an interesting question beneath a WoW Factor column earlier this month, one that clearly resonated with our readers because it...
BioWare finally confirms Star Wars The Old Republic’s move to Broadsword
This announcement is almost redundant at this point since we've had so much confirmation from Star Wars The Old Republic developers already, but here...
Choose My Adventure: Age of Conan engages my barbarian rage
Let me be honest with you all: This week saw me ragequit out of Age of Conan, though not quite to the point that...
SMITE, Paladins company Hi-Rez is hit by layoffs following major restructuring and new CEO
Hi-Rez's Stewart Chisam has announced a major restructure of the company and its multiple online games studios - and unfortunately, it includes layoffs.
Chisam wrote...
The Stream Team: Sauntering through Secret World Legends for its 6th anniversary
To this day, if you were to ask Massively OP's MJ what her favorite game is, she'd answer The Secret World as one of...
Working As Intended: My 20 years of Star Wars Galaxies
Last year, when Ultima Online turned 25 years old, I did a piece reminiscing on those early days and marveling that so much of...
The MOP Up: AdventureQuest 3D heads to the beach
A beach party is in full effect over at AdventureQuest 3D: "Summer is here, heroes! Bask in the thrill of adventure, collect Trophies for...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMOs are memorable but not actually fun?
Earlier this week, we ran a Daily Grind on MMOs that are fun but not especially memorable, throwing it back to a quote from...
Vague Patch Notes: Examining the MMO tiers, from the Big Five to maintenance mode
I've mentioned many a time that one of the ideas behind the Vague Patch Notes column here on MOP is to have a place...
