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Torchlight Frontiers’ relic weapons make for strange and fun build options
Talking about "horizontal progression" is all well and good for Torchlight Frontiers, but how will this MMOARPG actually make good on alternative forms of...
Star Trek Online lays out its plans for the rest of the year and the start of the next
The year is not quite over, but Star Trek Online is already thinking about the end of this year and the start of the...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online Age of Discovery Starter Pack on PC from PWE and MOP
Age of Discovery officially launched for Star Trek Online last week in a well-timed TV tie-in. To celebrate the launch, PWE has granted Massively OP a bunch of...
Vague Patch Notes: How do you play MMOs when you know humans suffered to make them?
The original Star Wars film was a passion project for a then-young George Lucas, and it was a project that nearly killed Lucas from...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that desperately need proper player housing
Here's something pretty encouraging to me: When I sat down to work on an article listing MMOs that really could use but lacked proper...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 191: It’s looking a little patchy around here
Justin and Bree discuss Star Citizen, LOTRO, EverQuest II, Star Trek Online, SWTOR, New World, and Black Desert, with reader mail about forging social connections in MMOs.
Star Trek Online grants players cybernetic dinosaurs in latest Breach special event
Have you ever wished that you could have a cybernetically enhanced dinosaur as a pet? Of course you have, and if you happen to...
Neverwinter unveils the details of its upcoming Acquisitions Incorporated campaign
A new campaign is coming to Neverwinter, allowing players to join the esteemed and totally-professional company of Acquisitions Incorporated as they search for the...
Torchlight Frontiers takes player feedback on horizontal progression, details development updates
Earlier this month, the folks at PWE-published Echtra Games took to the Torchlight subreddit to open up a conversation with the community regarding the dev...
The MOP Up: Dark Age of Camelot allows name, gender, and race changes
Dark Age of Camelot is testing its next major patch, and it has a major surprise in store for its playerbase.
"Patch 1.125 is chock...
One Shots: Filtered to perfection
I don't usually spend a lot of time running pictures through filters, but it's pretty cool when I see someone doing this that knows...
The Stream Team: A look at Star Trek Online’s Age of Discovery
Besides making an all-new character with a Discovery flavor, Star Trek Online players get three new missions involving this era in the latest update....
The Game Archaeologist: The Death of City of Heroes
August 31st, 2012, was a Friday like any other. City of Heroes players were psyched for the upcoming Issue 24, which Paragon Studios had...
The Daily Grind: Do action-RPGs make for good MMO material?
The second it was announced, Torchlight Frontiers skyrocketed to the top of my interest. I really wasn't expecting an MMO out of this franchise...
Champions Online’s Halloween event, Bloodmoon Rises, has returned
Halloween is hatching in PWE's superhero MMORPG Champions Online, which traditionally includes a zombie apocalypse, battle against the werewolves, and fight for life against the...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMO systems that encourage alts
Here's how much I like having alts: I have alts in Final Fantasy XIV and Final Fantasy XI. Two games which are built on...
Star Trek Online releases the first chapter of its Age of Discovery update today
Today, Perfect World Entertainment has announced the release of the first chapter of Star Trek Online's latest major update, Age of Discovery. Going live...
The MOP Up: Sony’s PlayStation 3 sunset apocalypse
Sony's decision to shut down several online servers for some past PlayStation 3 games on October 25th is shaping up to be a sunset...
Global Chat: Does Guild Wars 2’s newest episode reach for the stars?
Guild Wars 2's newest living world episode seems to be grabbing the MMO community's attention in a way that the season so far hasn't....
It’s Perfect World International’s birthday! Grab a 10th anny gift pack courtesy of PWE
In celebration of Perfect World International's 10th birthday, PWE has kindly granted Massively OP a stack of keys for an anniversary bundle, including a...