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After a briefly delayed beta event last month, RIFT's Starfall Prophecy expansion launched this week. RIFT is Trion Worlds' crown jewel, and this third expansion...

Eleven years ago this week, the New Game Enhancements patch descended on Star Wars Galaxies, forever changing the trajectory of the game, SOE, and...

The season to end all seasons has come and gone. The Secret World's Samhain has faded back into the fog, and it will be another...

When we engage in the collective fantasy of playing MMORPGs, we accept certain structures and tropes that have been in place since the early...

So here's the bad news: Your favorite MMO is going to shut down in the future. You know exactly when it's going to happen,...

Hello, dear readers. Would you like to tell me what to do for a while? Choose My Adventure has been absent from the site for...

Pokemon Go has received some large updates recently: the buddy system, medals, some big gym changes (twice), and now we've got dailies. We've been dazzled...

Even if you are not subscribing for the impending Star Wars: The Old Republic expansion, Knights of the Eternal Throne, you will be subject to...

In keeping loose tabs on responses to various games in the comments section here on Massively OP, I do see some remarks that seem...

Justin and Bree talk NCsoft & Nexon, Neocron, Marvel Heroes, SWTOR, EVE Online, Black Desert, Twin Saga, and The Secret World, with mailbag questions on MMO factions and Blizzard's duty to the genre, plus a preview of the second part of our Mark Jacobs interview.

Ever since Guild Wars 2's first expansion released, retired players or MMO hoppers have been insisting in comments across the internet that they would only...

"We are happy to announce that EVE Online: Ascension has been successfully deployed!" That's the word out of Icelandic MMORPG studio CCP Games this morning,...

EVE Online's Ascension expansion launches today, dropping the subscription paywall that's barricaded the game for well over a decade and further reducing the small...

It's kind of weird to think about the fact that we just passed the four-year anniversary of the end of an era in Final...

GamesIndustry.biz has an intriguing piece out this week on the industry's obsession with "day one" and "week one" -- that period AAA game studios...

Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! Kakao can...

EVE Online's Ascension expansion goes live in just two days on Tuesday November 15th, introducing the new free-to-play alpha clone state and completely overhauling...

As the subscription MMORPG continues to dwindle and be replaced by free-to-play games (where players come and go without notice) and buy-to-play games (which...

The future is an undiscovered country. We can make guesses and predictions, but we never know just how things are going to shake out....

During this past week's podcast, Justin, Eliot, and I debated the overall tenor of BlizzCon 2016 -- and found it more or less lacking....