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Just about a year ago, Lord of the Rings Online opened the doors to its very first progression server ruleset. It was...

One of my favorite modern trends of MMORPGs is that studios are no longer saving the entirety of a soundtrack for the base game or expansion releases. Oh sure, those usually get a great album push -- especially if it's one of the bigger games -- but for a while now, many studios have also been releasing new music on a steady basis with significant content patches.

Last time we were here, we discussed the intensely shoddy ethics of Blizzard's behavior surrounding the banning of Hearthstone professional Ng "Blitzchung" Wai...

So far in the Into the Super-verse column space, we have touched base with two of the three upcoming City of Heroes...

A while back, I stumbled across the most bizarre and lovely multiplayer game I think I've ever seen. It's called Kind Words, and...

Justin, Bree, and Eliot discuss the Blizzard boytcott and fiasco, the Daybreak layoffs, Shroud of the Avatar's sell-off, the Guild Wars 2 hacker piece, and a few happier stories too.

You know that moment when you’re playing a new MMORPG class and there’s this kind of epiphany? That feeling like a switch has been...

Earlier this month, ArenaNet announced that President Mike O’Brien, former game director on both the original Guild Wars and Guild Wars...

Following last week's nasty Blizzard Hong Kong mess, many players publicly stepped away from the studio and its games, in some cases deleting...

EVE Online player Ethan Richards is best known by the name of his in-game character Katia Sae, who earlier this year completed an...

The past week was sure a trip, and a good chunk of it for me was taken up by stuff I didn't want to...

A few months back, a player on the Pantheon forums posted a neat question asking fellow players what they wanted to be known...

When has something as mundane and nondescript as a bush ever been a helpful hero? And when have we ever featured a MapleStory...

Very few of us are in a situation wherein large men are perched behind us claiming that something horrible will happen to our loved...

Yesterday, we reported on the sad news that MMORPG company Daybreak Games had suffered yet another round of layoffs. As developers began weighing...

There used to be a time that Funcom was deeply into the MMORPG business, bringing us titles such as Anarchy Online, Age...

You want to hear a fun secret? You might think that we at Massively OP are all content being the tastemakers of the MMO...

During Gamigo's ArcheAge Unchained stream this afternoon, the chat erupted with cries of "pay-to-win confirmed" over the revelation that cosmetic gifting will be...

When you know that your beloved MMORPG is about to be shut down, what do you do? If you're the blog 24 Hours...

Two videos inspired today's Daily Grind. One is a recent episode of Extra Credits about player-generated content in games - what we've always...