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Former Elder Scrolls and Guild Wars franchise composer is accused of sexual assault
The gaming industry is in the midst of its own #MeToo moment, and one of the industry vets who stands accused is popular composer...
MMOs You’ve Never Heard Of: Perfect World Mobile, Virtuverse, Eventyr, Pixie Hollow, and Reign of Guilds
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMOs and MMO-adjacent titles you’ve probably never heard of (or at least have entirely forgotten about!).
Up first:...
MMO Week in Review: Wouldn’t it be awesome if Guild Wars 2’s next season were Cantha
It was a surprisingly solid week for Guild Wars 2, not so much because of one specific thing but because of the deluge: ArenaNet...
Blight’s alpha is a portal to a ‘cruel, harsh’ PvP world
Do you feel as though too many MMOs have a soft underbelly these days? Then you may wish to cut your teeth on an...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 219: The 64-bit generation
Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard financials, City of Heroes, Fallout 76, Final Fantasy XIV, WoW Classic, EVE Online, LOTRO, and Guild Wars, with mailbag topics on Blizzard, everythingboxes, genderlocking, and dad jokes.
Ask Mo: Introducing Massively OP’s latest columns and columnists
As part of our planned expansion for 2019, Massively OP brought on a slew of new writers to perk up our pages with new...
Indie hacking MMO Spycursion admits defeat on Kickstarter, but game development will continue
We've been tracking the Kickstarter for upcoming hacking MMO Spycursion for several weeks now, and it's coming down to its last two days. And...
MMO Business Roundup: Skyrim’s multiplayer mod mess, Neural MMO, and the rise of Overwatch League
Welcome back to another roundup of stuff happening in the gaming business world relevant to MMOers. Remember Skyrim Together, the multiplayer Skyrim mod that...
There’s now another Glitch reboot on the way: Odd Giants
When TinySpeck - that's the company that went on to ultimately found Slack - sunsetted its tiny browser sandbox Glitch back in 2012, it...
Azusa RP Online is the Stardew Valley retro sandbox MMORPG you always wanted
Here's a new MMO rolling out to Steam today: It's a Brazilian MMO called Azusa RP Online. If you're a fan of pixel games...
The multiplayer Skyrim Together mod is about to hit closed beta
If you've been around the Elder Scrolls modding community long enough, you know that fan efforts to bring multiplayer elements to the franchise's single-player...
Guild Wars and Elder Scrolls franchise composer Jeremy Soule starts Patreon for exclusive music
It's not really a holiday season around Massively OP if we're not asking that annual question, "What is composer Jeremy Soule up to these...
Vampire MMO Shadow’s Kiss makes good on mature content
If you were super sad when Revival and World of Darkness closed up shop, you should probably point your eyeballs over at Shadow's Kiss....
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Conquest Resurgence Within, Rohan Mobile, Drawn to Death, El Somni Quas
Welcome back to our intermittent series on MMOs and other multiplayer games you’ve (probably) never heard of! Let’s run down a few more that crossed...
World of Warcraft unlocks a new Raid Finder wing, the community rallies for a book and a mod creator
The second Raid Finder wing of Uldir is open now for players who have no interest in assembling a standard raid group in World...
Player-designed document combines Dungeons & Dragons with Destiny
Want to play some Destiny or Destiny 2 material sitting around a table with friends? Then you will want to check out the D&Destiny...
Meta: If you’re a Massively OP Patron on Patreon, could you take a moment to update your payment methods?
Patreon tweeted this afternoon that it's experiencing a rash of Patron payment method rejections on its system, which could negatively impact Massively OP as...
Massively Overthinking: How accountable should MMOs hold players for out-of-game toxicity?
Brendan's discussion with CCP Falcon at EVE Fanfest last week included an interesting chat about out-of-game harassment and whether gaming companies had an obligation...
Massively Overthinking: Paying for MMORPG emulators, legal or otherwise
MassivelyOp reader Bryan recently wrote to us with a fun question about emulators, a topic that will simply never die as long as MMORPGs...
Warframe celebrates five years and 38 million players
Warframe continues to defy expectations for online gaming playerbase sizes. A year ago, it boasted 30M registered players. As of today, it's up to 38M....