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As it's been about a year now, I know that pretty much nobody remembers John Smedley's ill-fated Hero's Song. For a while there, we...

Bloggers and journalists throughout the online gaming industry have been talking about monetization a lot lately. It's not just lockbox/gachapon scandals, or their relationship...

The love child of bullet hell shooters and permadeath MMORPGs is now on Steam, and it's taking no prisoners. That's just not how it...

Last weekend, Brendan wrote a great column on how to stay safe from gankers in EVE Online, noting that the newbies are commonly given...

I am not done with Guild Wars 2. This may or may not come as a surprise to people, but it's still the case regardless....

While there were plenty of established games on hand at PAX West 2017, there were also a few new ones offering players a taste...

Warframe developer Digital Extremes just announced that it's partnered with Human Head Studios for a new MMO "roguelite" with a pixel-art style. It's called...

Have you ever noticed that while there's an entire world out there, most all of the MMORPGs we discuss and play tend to either...

As much as we complain about MMORPGs, with their grinds and their boredom, even the most kill-or-be-killed ganker paradises would probably be better to...

As Massively OP is centered on the "massively" part of gaming, it makes sense that my first guide to survival games was focused on...

We've been covering Starfighter Inc. for the last few weeks in Make My MMO, but apparently a lot of you folks who say you...

Justin and Eliot discuss PAX East, Shards Online aka Legends of Aria, TERA and Trove on console, Final Fantasy XIV, Dauntless, Kritika Online, and Conan Exiles, plus mailbag questions on Eastern MMOs and permadeath.

Path of Exile fans, today is the big day: Grinding Gear Games is officially unveiling your next expansion, dubbed The Fall of Oriath. It turns out that the...

Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online, LOTRO, WoW tokens, Ashes of Creation, Guild Wars 2, and Revelation Online, plus financials on Blizzard, NCsoft, Nexon, Square, and Funcom, with a mailbag question on playing what you love vs. going with the crowd.

While Project Gorgon is not going to implement a permadeath mode any time soon, the team has put in some tools to allow players...

I am no stranger to covering survival sandboxes for Massively OP. I wrestled with dinosaurs before ARK: Survival Evolved was a thing. I got kidnapped...

In March of last year, MOP's Justin wrote a detailed guide to the most common death penalties in MMORPGs. Last September, Gamasutra pulled seven...

It's been a while since we've checked in on Shards Online, so let's talk about death. No, not the game itself, but death within...

If you've ever wanted to call out "Once more unto the Breach!" as a battle cry, Path of Exile offers you just that chance...

Westworld has emerged this fall as the geek obsession TV show, a gunslinger's LOST about which people can't stop talking and theorizing and debating....