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Overwatch teases its upcoming LEGO sets, players decry Pharah’s nerfs
She's weathered a lot of updates without being significantly changed, but Pharah is finally getting some big changes with the next Overwatch patch... and...
BlizzCon 2018: Blizzard reveals key panels for Diablo, WoW Classic
We're just a month away from BlizzCon now, and as it's the biggest last gaming con of the year that we focus on, we're...
MMO wikis are leaving Wikia in larger numbers – RuneScape is just the latest
What are your thoughts on Wikia? If you're like most people, you likely don't have any and might even respond to that question with...
Ubisoft previews The Division 2’s overhauled weapons systems
In all the buzz around Destiny 2 and Anthem, you'd be forgiven for having forgotten that The Division 2 is still on the way,...
Anthem will have matchmaking for raids but no loot trading
It's hard not to compare Anthem to Destiny 2 just by the nature of what both games are trying to be. More to the...
Overwatch’s Halloween Terror begins October 9, but don’t expect ‘dramatic new game modes’
Overwatch has joined the short list of online games prepping their Halloween events nearly a month in advance: Blizzard announced this morning that Halloween...
Mark Kern’s crowdfunded MMO shooter Em-8ER has ‘nearly’ finished its demo characters
It's been a while since we checked in on Em-8ER, Mark Kern's frustratingly named "massive planetary wargame," so we're rectifying that today.
MMO players will...
The MOP Up: Blizzard’s new playgrounds
Ranked Season 4 started up in Heroes of the Storm this past week, and that's just the start of the fun with Blizzard's MOBA....
The Stream Team: Checking out Warframe’s Chroma Prime
Are you interested in seeing what what Warframe's new Chroma Prime can do? Massively OP's MJ is, especially since she is so fond of...
Whatever happened to Divergence Online, Tree of Life, and Eternal Crusade?
Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, “Whatever happened to that game?” With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it’s surprisingly easy...
Guns of Icarus patches in a new map and Kickstarter rewards for hamster fans
Congratulations, Guns of Icarus players, the latest patch will allow you to get rewards for backing the Hamsterdam Kickstarter. If you're blinking a bit...
Activision knows the power of cross-play, but it will need some time to implement it
Blizzard is very familiar with the advantages of cross-platform play, because Hearthstone exists and does quite well for it with exactly that. But there...
Warframe will be one of the first games testing mouse and keyboard support on Xbox One
There's a certain joyous weirdness in playing Warframe on an Xbox One and then doing so with a mouse and keyboard, also known as...
World of Warships prepares submarines for a Halloween event and the game in general
It makes sense to include submarines as part of a Halloween event for World of Warships. After all, there's nothing else that so perfectly...
Vague Patch Notes: Trickle-down metagames in MMORPGs
A while back, there was an interesting set of data coming out of a discussion about Overwatch. The discussion was about the concept of...
Warframe brings back Operation: Plague Star through September 30th
Warframe is not a game in which you have space to debate moral niceties most of the time. There's an infected boil on the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 187: The raid in our stars
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's new living world episode, Boundless, EverQuest II, Blizzard, Warframe, EVE Online, SWTOR, the petition to save WildStar, and our big site revamp.
Grab a War Thunder Naval Battles closed beta key from Gaijin and Massively OP!
For the last couple of months, War Thunder studio Gaijin Entertainment has been hard at work running a closed beta for its Naval Battles...
Wargaming is building a new ‘free-to-play multiplatform MMO’ in the UK
It looks as if Wargaming is planning to push even further into the MMO market.
According to GIbiz, the company known best for World of...
The Daily Grind: Do you think you’ve aged out of MMOs?
There's this particular template for covering MMORPGs on mainstream gaming websites that I cannot stand: the old "haha, MMOs are weird and old, let's...
