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I would say that I don't mention my affection for Final Fantasy XI often enough, but the fact is that I mention it a...

Let me tell you, the upcoming demise of WildStar has me really and truly heartsick. Flawed as it was, this was a tremendous MMO...

Here's an MMO and a feature both long since deceased: Wizardry Online and permadeath. Yet as JVT Workshop argues, it was an underappreciated feature...

Just a few days ago, we awoke to news so unexpected that it made me check I hadn't time-traveled to April 1st: EVE Online...

Last week, I ran a Daily Grind asking readers about how patient they are about MMOs that take a looooong time to really hit...

It's a tale as old as time: Whenever an MMO starts getting up there in years and starting to show signs of age, you...

Here's a fun little perk of working at Massively OP: We get to choose the headers, and quite often we writers use screenshots from...

Most of this year's PAX West content is finally finished, and while we're about to give MOP reporter Larry Everett a much-needed breather, we've...

Friends, readers, genre fans, lend me your eyes; I come to bury WildStar, not to praise it. But just like Marc Antony, I'm going...

The panic over the impending Pearl Abyss buyout of CCP Games has been palpable for the last 24 hours. The EVE Online Reddit was...

As I watched Nick Tarabay stand on stage hype up the audience in the Main Theater for PAX West 2018, I thought it was...

I do my best to be a patient party member in group content, but I am not perfect. When we get to the point...

When it comes to popular games, it seems as though writers don't feel that they have to extol their virtues. They're already popular, after...

Back in August, MMO blog Gnomecore asked an intriguing question about the age of our MMO toons. He wasn't asking about how long you've...

Larry, Justin, and Bree talk PAX West, Elder Scrolls Online, Rend, Dauntless, Torchlight Frontiers, Blades, Neverwinter, Anthem, Star Citizen, Runes of Magic, Wizard101, FFXIV, PlanetSide 2, SWTOR, WoW, and Star Wars Galaxies, with a mailbag email on how MMOs can facilitate roleplaying.

EVE Online has been pretty comfortable in its hardcore sci-fi MMO niche for over 15 years now, working its way through dozens of expansions and...

How many times have you seen this kind of advice from fans of an MMO? "You have to get past the first 10 hours...

Everybody's got an opinion on why Sony won't play nicely with the other platforms, like the Switch, in regard to Fortnite, but how about...

I appreciate the fact that we did not get a comprehensive picture of the next patch's story with this particular live letter. Yes, the...

I should preface this article with two things: I got to spend maybe 15 minutes in Murkmire while in a crowded, loud room at...