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Wizard101 and Pirate101 developer KingsIsle promises ‘exciting things’ for its January 27 KI Live broadcast
The KI Live broadcasts from Wizard101 and Pirate101 developer KingsIsle are usually something that regular fans of both games want to pay attention to,...
The Stream Team: Planning on some pixelated piracy in Plunder Panic
When Plunder Panic was brought to our attention, MOP's Chris was almost immediately intrigued by the whole thing. Retro-style arcade gaming? 2-D sprite graphics?...
Plunder Panic is a 6v6 action arcade title where 2-D pirates fight over different objectives
There are two things that immediately caught my interest when I saw the multiplayer arcade title of Plunder Panic cross our news desk: one,...
The Stream Team: The Dread Sea Scrolls of Dungeons & Dragons Online
The brand-new Dread Seas Scrolls quest that recently launched in Dungeons and Dragons Online (and then promptly bugged out so Massively OP's MJ couldn't...
Associate director of Ubisoft’s oft-delayed Skull and Bones departs the company
"What the heck is Skull and Bones," you cry. And we hear you! See, back before Ubisoft put out awful NFT nonsense no one wants,...
KingsIsle confirms new Pirate101 content for 2022 is in the works, looks back at 2021 design goals for Wizard101
Before launching into this story, let's put out a quick review. At the beginning of this year, players of Pirate101 started up a "flood...
Pirates of the Burning Sea teases ‘legacy’ edition coming soon
Arr, there be some life left in Pirates of the Burning Sea's sails, after all! Shortly before the dev team broke for the holidays,...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v5.0
It has been another thrilling year of exploring the relatively unknown or forgotten lands of MMORPG history here in The Game Archaeologist. From projects...
PSA: Apex Legends celebrates SWTOR’s 10th anniversary with a free giveaway
A delayed expansion announcement is probably not how Star Wars: The Old Republic wanted to be celebrating its 10th anniversary, but these things happen....
The Game Archaeologist: Hero101, the lost KingsIsle superhero MMO
You do get the sense that KingsIsle once had very grand plans for what is called its "101 Universe." After Wizard101 came out to...
DDO and LOTRO welcome the winter holidays — and throw in something a little extra
It's officially the season for snow, gifts, and... dinosaurs? This is SSG we're talking about, so just about anything is possible! Both Lord of...
One Shots: Bring on Endwalker!
Friends, we are going to need to happily resign ourselves to the fact that we're about to get a flood of FFXIV pictures in...
The Stream Team: Setting sail with The Swimming Oak for EverQuest II’s prelude event
Word is there's an anniversary today. Not for EQII, mind you, but this is the game Massively OP's MJ will play, so play she...
Pixelart Ravendawn charges into Alpha 3 – check out the new trailer
Massively OP readers know that we like to pull for the little guys trying to make a name for themselves in the MMORPG industry,...
Choose My Adventure: Cobbling together a death brick in Avorion
You know how your first construction job in a survival sandbox is a perfectly functional but spectacularly hideous in terms of aesthetics? That was...
Gamigo investor report promises a ‘great update’ for RIFT in Q1, Atlas Rogues is abandoned
It's a bit of good news and unsurprising bad news out of the third quarter investor report from MGI, the company that runs Gamigo....
Guild Wars 2’s Jade Sea ‘powers the Canthan empire’ in End of Dragons
I know that the Kurzick faction was the most popular in Classic Guild Wars, so there's probably more nostalgia overall for Echovald. But my...
Choose My Adventure: Discovering familiarity, failure, and random adventure in Avorion
I was one jump away from what could have been a big payday. The opportunity was literally handed to me and I had managed...
New World’s test server opens today with void gauntlet, new quests, and trading post unification
It's another big day for New World: Amazon is opening up a public test realm to let players test out its coming content update.
The...
Massively Overthinking: What are your most on-brand MMORPG class archetypes?
A while back in MOP's work chat, we were chatting about Guild Wars 2 End of Dragons and how its elite specs line up...
