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In a bizarre coincidence, four separate MOBAs announced new champions this week. SMITE revealed an adorable Norse squirrel god named Ratatoskr and officially launched...

Mo takes on an unimpressed crab miniboss with his newfound companions in his very first PUG.

So, Shroud of the Avatar got DDoSed yesterday. Shroud of the Avatar!? While there's really no excuse for any DDoS attack, it kind of...

When CCP announced its far-reaching plans to overhaul EVE Online's territorial warfare gameplay, players were cautiously optimistic but understandably guarded. EVE's old sovereignty system...

I am traveling again for Massively OP, and that means not much in the way of MMOs for me for a little while. When...

It was the 31st century, where feuding factions decided to settle their differences by throwing multi-ton war robots at each other. It was also...

You want to hear something weird? For as much crap as WildStar got about its path system, I actually do love to explore in...

I've been playing GTA Online for 50-something hours now, and while I'm by no means an expert, I'm a lot smarter about the game...

It's been a little while, hasn't it, friends? In the time since I last penned WoW Factor (which missed an installment purely due to...

Earlier this week, Daybreak's John Smedley told H1Z1 fans about a metric that startled me: An awful lot of post-apoc gamers are annoyed with night...

For this edition of Massively Overthinking, Kickstarter donor Sargon wants us think back to 1997, when Ultima Online launched and parted MMOs from graphical MUDs forever....

It was just over a week ago that Landmark's servers went offline in preparation for a major upheaval that affected nearly every system in...

When lead designer Scott Shicoff took point on Neverwinter, his first dispatch to the community was a statement that he and the rest of...

I imagine that most of us have a future bucket list of MMOs that we wish would get here already. It wasn't but a...

Yesterday's news regarding the possibility of a classic Darkfall server was pretty great. I loved Aventurine's 2010-era fantasy gankbox, and I'd resubscribe or even repurchase the client...

Remember a couple of weeks ago when Aventurine developer axilmar caused a bit of a stir with an informal poll regarding Darkfall's pre-Unholy Wars...

I was discussing MMO business models with some friends this week, and one of them commented that buy-to-play is the best thing ever. I...

In this episode, Larry, Cosmic Engine, Brendan, and Redna debate MMORPG community platforms, guilds, and building strong communities.

Long ago on Massively-that-was, a reader named Avaera sent in a long list of fabulous questions worth addressing. I'm tackling another in today's edition...

It's sometimes so odd to me what game mechanics aim to mimic real-life behaviors and activities while so much else is ignored. We drink,...