piracy
Smuggler’s Fortune brings the cash shop and the Black Market to Sea of Thieves
It's time to go shopping in Sea of Thieves! The Smuggler's Fortune update has gone live for the piratical sandbox, offering players a couple...
Sea of Thieves talks Pirate Legends, skeleton ships, and a new region
The Sea of Thieves forums caught on fire earlier this week, but mercifully not due to some drama, but because there was a Q&A...
Perfect Ten: The fantasy MMO zone atlas
There are, let's face it, a limited number of different ways to design real-adjacent zones in any fantasy game. At the end of the...
The Stream Team: Cornering Captain Greymast in EverQuest II
Massively OP's MJ has tracked him across islands and through dizzying avenues of pirates' hideouts, but she has yet to corner EverQuest II's Captain...
Atlas’s new lead designer admits the MMO has ‘struggled to find its sea legs,’ plots new course
If you put any great measure of weight to Steam user reviews, the fact that Atlas is sitting on mostly negative reviews at the...
Star Wars: The Old Republic previews Onslaught’s new Mek-Sha location
Back in July, the Star Wars: The Old Republic folks offered an extremely formulaic but at least somewhat interesting look at the creation of...
Meta: Join us for Massively OP’s first Mo Mania stream-athon on Friday, August 23!
Mo Mania? You might be wondering just what exactly that odd entry on the OPTV stream calendar for tomorrow is. That's what we're here...
Gamigo drops more ArcheAge teases on labor points, monetization, and housing
Yesterday, Gamigo put up a teaser website under the old Trion domain promising a big Gamescom reveal. Accompanied by an ArcheAge account tweet hinting...
Gamigo is up to something next week – is it related to ArcheAge?
Gamigo's dropping something new next week, according to a tweet the company just sent out. MMO players will recall that Gamigo's the German company...
The Stream Team: SWTOR’s pirate inclusion
As you might expect, pirates never stop! And they just keep causing problems on Dantooine, so Massively OP's Larry and MJ are back to...
EVE Evolved: What injecting chaos means for EVE Online
The past few weeks have been pretty transformative for EVE Online, with the global communications blackout across null-security space revitalising roaming gang PvP in...
Pirates of the Burning Sea’s new operators promise new content and more with new hires
Last year, Pirates of the Burning Sea made headlines when it lost its publisher support and primary coder. It was on the brink of...
Ultima Online readies a pumpkin ship for Forsaken Foes
With the Forgotten Treasures update out this summer, the Ultima Online team has moved on to preparing for the next big thing, which will...
Legends of Aria bows to the RNG gods of enchanting
With its launch right around the corner, Legends of Aria is spinning up the hype-and-info machine to re-introduce this fantasy MMORPG to the masses....
The MOP Up: Ragnarok Online EU is relaunching
Ragnarok Online is changing hands in Europe, and as part of that, the long-running fantasy MMO is relaunching with a different spin under 4game....
Sea of Thieves patches in Black Powder Runs with its latest update
Sometimes a ship's cargo can be theoretically volatile, but the treasures unearthed in the new content for Sea of Thieves are very literally volatile....
Atlas unveils work on Wild Pirate Encampments and a non-dedicated multiplayer mode
Judging by the sound of the most recent Captain's Log update from the folks at Atlas, the idea behind Wild Pirate Encampments sounds a...
Sea of Thieves video previews Black Powder Stashes event, upcoming balance changes
Shiver me timbers, it's time for another weekly Sea of Thieves developer update. This time, Executive Producer Joe Neate gives players a taste of...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s comms blackout will lead to absolute anarchy
All hell is about to break loose in EVE Online for the territorial alliances waging wars in the depths of space following some the...
Dauntless invites Slayers to test their luck in its upcoming Fortune & Glory update
They say that luck is a fickle mistress, but that's not strictly true -- she just plays favorites is all. But Dauntless players will...
