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Perfect Ten: Solo prequel games to MMORPGs
When studios go about making MMORPGs, risk comes along with the effect as a matter of course. The only question is how to reduce...
Elder Scrolls Legends will open the Jaws of Oblivion on October 8
Personally speaking, I thought that The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion was the weakest of the original single-player RPGs. Perhaps that game's story beats will translate...
Blade & Soul’s Storm of Arrows update is now live – here’s the trailer!
The patch notes for today's update to Blade & Soul are online, and it's forecasting a rain storm. The kind you can't really bring...
Check out the trailers for Blade & Soul’s Storm of Arrows, launching September 18
This week, NCsoft quietly announced Storm of Arrows for Blade & Soul, packed with the new Zen Archer class. Players who log in before...
Massively Overthinking: Problematic faves in MMOs
A while back, a reader suggested that it was impossible for a fan who loves something to recognize its shortcomings, and I was taken...
Massively Overthinking: The first 10 minutes of an MMO
So here's the thing about Elder Scrolls games: Most of them start out with the same hook. From Morrowind to Oblivion to Skyrim, you...
Tamriel Infinium: Everything we learned from Quakecon 2019’s Elder Scrolls Online panel
On Saturday, president of ZeniMax Online Studios Matt Firor and creative director of The Elder Scrolls Online Rich Lambert took the stage at Quakecon...
The Game Archaeologist: Sierra’s Fates of Twinion and Ruins of Cawdor
A few years ago I regaled you with the fascinating tale of one of the very first multiplayer graphical MUDs, the absurdly named Shadow...
Not So Massively: Mourning the wasted potential of Trion’s Defiance
One of my biggest gaming pet peeves is people declaring games "dead" before their time. If you can play it, it's not dead. This...
MMO Business Roundup: Philly’s Overwatch arena, the PUBG Netease settlement, and GDC’s record showing
Welcome back to the MMO Business Roundup!
Remember about a year ago when the battle royale industry started trying to sue everyone into oblivion? PUBG...
Lawful Neutral: Dancing around Fortnite’s copyright lawsuits
Welcome friends to the inaugural post of Lawful Neutral on Massively OP. I'm Andy, but you know me better as Serrenity, writer of comments...
Justice League Dark teleports to the DC Universe Online test server
The DC Universe tells tales of gods among men and larger than life superheroes, but what about the arcane? What about those who work...
Tamriel Infinium: Stuff it, naysayers, this is the perfect time for dragons in Elder Scrolls Online
I admit that I was one of the first people on board with the original idea that there would be no dragons in the...
Wandering Wraeclast: First impressions of Path of Exile’s Synthesis
Something's different about Wraeclast. The air, the ground... it's changed. What could it be? If I could just put my finger on it before...
Elder Scrolls Online teases the challenges and rewards of Wrathstone’s Frostvault dungeon, coming next week
We're barreling on toward the PC launch of Elder Scrolls Online's Wrathstone DLC next week, and if indeed you'll be picking up the DLC,...
Tamriel Infinium: The many breeds of Elder Scrolls Online’s cat people, the iconic Khajiit
In the real world, I am not a cat person. Actually, I'm not a pet person. But in video games, I collect minipets, tame...
Elder Scrolls Online: You could dive into Wrathstone’s dungeons, or you could just sleep on a bridge
ZeniMax has a new video up on social media today zeroing in on the dungeon content coming in Elder Scrolls Online's Wrathstone DLC later...
Reverse Engineering: The science of Elder Scrolls Online’s dragons
I don't think I can express how excited I am to bring this column to life on Massively Overpowered. Reverse Engineering covers the one...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Wrathstone dives back into Oblivion for dungeon inspiration
One of the dungeons launching in next month's Elder Scrolls Online Wrathstone DLC is Depths of Malatar, a four-man romp featured in ZeniMax's latest...
The Game Archaeologist: Project Copernicus
In the end, one of the biggest shames of the whole 38 Studios fiasco is that the MMORPG it was creating and the people...
