OARPG stands for “online action roleplaying game.”
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Activision-Blizzard Q3 2020: Blizzard MAUs fell to 30M as overall ActiBlizz revenues hold steady
It's time for another round of Activision-Blizzard financials as today covers Q3 2020. It's been a weird couple of years for the company as...
Diablo II creator David Brevik promises multiplayer ‘very soon’ for ARPG It Lurks Below
It Lurks Below, the current solo project of Diablo II and Marvel Heroes mastermind David Brevik, has seen a lot of improvement since its...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that you can play on the Nintendo Switch
Nintendo hasn't held the title of "serious gamer console" in a while, with specs that lack the sheer graphical and processing muscles of the...
Path of Exile pushed its 3.13 patch to January to dodge Cyberpunk 2077’s launch
Grinding Gear Games isn't playing any games with the launch of Path of Exile's next league: The New Zealand studio just flat-out delayed it...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 294: Butterfly in the sky, I can game twice as high
Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR, New World, WoW, City of Heroes, and LOTRO, with adventures in Torchlight III, WoW, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on working in the games industry.
Diablo IV offers a closer look at the creation of its reveal cinematic
Back in BlizzCon 2019, fans got their first taste of the upcoming Diablo IV by way of its reveal cinematic, which not only set...
PWE OARPG Torchlight III is live on the Nintendo Switch
As promised, PWE and Echtra Games' Torchlight III OARPG is live on the Nintendo Switch today, just a week after the game's official launch...
Path of Exile retools expansion cadence and scope to avoid struggling from another ‘black swan event’ like COVID
If you followed our coverage of Path of Exile's Heist expansion, you already knew the fun fact that Heist was originally being worked on...
First Impressions: OARPG Torchlight III just hasn’t click-clicked with me yet
Since it never hurts to be honest, I should say upfront here that Echtra Games' decision to radically retool Torchlight III from a F2P...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 293: Passing the Torchlight
Justin and Bree discuss Torchlight III, World of Warcraft, Dungeons and Dragons Online, EverQuest, Atlas Reactor, Pantheon, Ashes of Creation, TERA, Legends of Aria's new sibling, and StarCraft II, with a mailbag topic on difficulty modes.
Path of Exile previews its next Heist patch with bug fixes and QOL improvements
The next noteworthy patch for Path of Exile should be deployed soon, and it's all about the Heist league (as is usual for the...
The MOP Up: Phantasy Star Online 2 hands out more treats than tricks
Phantasy Star Online 2 fans can log in this week to enjoy a nice burst of additional content, including the fourth and fifth chapters...
Global Chat: Comparing SWTOR’s and Star Wars Squadrons’ space battles
With Star Wars Squadrons now on the scene, a comparison between that game and SWTOR's galactic starfighter content was all but inevitable.
MMO blog Galactic...
The Stream Team: A first look at Torchlight III
Torchlight III has launched, and Massively OP's MJ is heading in to check it out. She never played Torchlight or Torchlight II; her only...
Explaining Genshin Impact’s impact: Is it actually worth your time?
In Explaining Genshin Impact’s impact: The reinvention of gachapon, I went into the nitty-gritty of the gacha system and how it's actually pretty easy...
Perfect Ten: 10 notable MMO developers that shut their doors
When En Masse Entertainment announced that it would be closing its doors this fall, we here at Massively OP came to the realization that...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 292: Burning down the Amazon gameforest
Justin and Bree discuss Crucible, Star Trek Online, Black Desert, FFXIV, Star Citizen, WoW, MMO Halloween, and new games from CCP and Zenimax, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, SWG Legends, and Torchlight III, plus an audio mailbag topic on ragequitting.
PWE and Echtra Games’ Torchlight III has officially launched
It's not an MMO now, but it's finally live: Torchlight III has officially launched today. Originally pitched as a free-to-play MMORPG called Torchlight Frontiers by...
Path of Exile brings on another round of Heist improvements in the latest patch
The turning of knobs and tweaking of dials for Path of Exile's latest League continues. Grinding Gear Games has offered patch notes for the...
Not So Massively: Reflections on Blizzard, one year after the Hong Kong fiasco
Almost exactly a year ago, I declared that the Blizzard I loved is dead, in reaction to the Blitzchung/Hearthstone/Hong Kong fiasco.
Twelve months later, that...
