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Perfect Ten: My favorite MMO dungeons
It's hard to look at an MMORPG and imagine them without dungeons. For some people, these instances are the core of their game experience,...
Ship of Heroes explores its spaceship mission maps
Raise your hand if you're a superhero MMORPG fan who really, really wants to see good mission maps. None of this office building #3457225...
Valiance Online’s capital city hall is ‘akin to the Pentagon’ for supers
Back in April, Silverhelm Studios told players it was instituting "big changes" in the way it was rolling out information for City of Heroes-inspired...
Perfect Ten: My MMO hate list
One thing that I strive for in my professional career is basing things on sources more robust than my own biases. That's not to...
One Shots: Lonely hearts
Are gamers really lonely? Do we flock to MMORPGs as a response to that? I'm pondering these thoughts today following the response of a...
Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up Black Desert and selecting our next destination
Back when I mentioned that I was learning to like Black Desert a while back, I got this tweet from the game's official account....
Valiance Online muses about a sidekicking system
Sidekicking and mentoring were among the best and most-used features in City of Heroes, but will one of its spiritual successors take a cue...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 115: Legendary podcasting
Justin and Bree discuss Ashes of Creation, Guild Wars 1 and 2, Star Trek Online, FFXIV, Neverwinter, WoW addons, Kingdom of Loot, and City of Heroes, with mailbox questions on MMO tourist mode and character creation inspiration.
City of Heroes fans party hard for the game’s 13th birthday
Last Friday evening, the torch was raised once again for City of Heroes. Despite the game being offline for a half-decade now, fans from...
The Stream Team: Celebrating City of Heroes with Paragon Chat costume contests
Never say die! If City of Heroes fans had a motto, this would likely be it. Although they don't have the original game to...
Perfect Ten: The City of Heroes basic Archetypes ranked
So it's just about that time again - we're remembering when City of Heroes launched and when it said goodbye. Which is a bit...
Join MOP in Paragon Chat for Friday’s City of Heroes anniversary bash
Beloved superhero MMORPG City of Heroes turns 13 years old tomorrow, and what better way to celebrate than in Paragon City? That's exactly what...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has seen the most improved graphics over the years?
In each of our articles about Black Desert's upcoming graphics upgrade, there have been a slew of comments about how the game doesn't really...
One Shots: Screenshots big enough to wallpaper your house
Obviously due to column width limitations, we have a fixed pixel size for screenshots here at Massively OP. But that doesn't stop some of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 112: Heroic measures
Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes, Ship of Heroes, SWTOR, Secret World Legends, Black Desert, EVE Fanfest, LOTRO, WoW, and GW2, with reader mail on MMO dress-up and City of Heroes successors.
Jukebox Heroes: Your top six favorite MMO music themes
After over a month of voting and counting down, we've arrived at the final six picks for your favorite MMORPG theme songs of all...
The Daily Grind: What MMO ability makes you feel truly powerful?
A couple of months ago, I received a legendary in World of Warcraft that allowed me to shoot out this gigantic AoE fireball every 90...
City of Heroes-inspired MMORPG Ship of Heroes has canceled its Kickstarter bid
The team behind Ship of Heroes has just announced that it's canceling its Kickstarter. Since the crowdfund's launch on April 4th, it had raised only $35,138...
Master x Master closed beta begins April 6; signups are open now
D'awwww, look at that image of City of Heroes' Statesman, scowling down upon all the kids flocking to the Master X Master beta signup...
City of Heroes-inspired Ship of Heroes’ $400,000 Kickstarter is live
Ship of Heroes has formally launched its Kickstarter today as promised, with a $400,000 ask.
The game is an Unreal 4 engine, full-scale MMORPG heavily...
