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Sea of Thieves’ 11th season is live, shaking up the classic sailing gameplay loop
Sea of Thieves 11th season of play officially went live yesterday, bringing a major revamp to the core voyage game loop. "Rather than having to...
Old School RuneScape roadmap details new areas, revamped classic quests, and Sailing’s future
This past weekend saw Jagex host its 2024 Winter Summit event for Old School RuneScape, which dropped a ton of reveals for fans of...
Sea of Thieves goes deep on Season 11’s quality-of-life patch
The pirates are back from the holidays, bringing buried treasure features to Sea of Thieves with the upcoming Season 11 patch. To expound upon...
Ubisoft’s Echoes of History podcast focuses in on the historical figures of Skull and Bones’ setting
Ubisoft's upcoming Skull and Bones is inspired by and set in a time period widely known as the Golden Age of Piracy, specifically the...
Perfect Ten: The weirdest weapons from MMOs of yore
Swords. Staffs. Maces. Spears. Wands. Bows. Crossbows. Double-crossbows. Hammers. Wolverine claws. Daggers. Axes. Deadly? Yes. Fashionable? Not so much. A two-handed sword is so...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v7.0
Once again we put a wrap on another year of MMORPG news, opinions, and -- most pertinent to this column -- history. In a...
Rumor: Sea of Thieves may be coming to other consoles
Here is a dollop of spicy rumor to float in your grog: Sea of Thieves may be coming to the PlayStation and Switch in...
The MOP Up: Wakfu’s server headache
Wakfu said that its Ogrest server stopped working properly for a day, causing all sorts of data management headaches and a two-hour rollback.
"At 0:39...
Jukebox Heroes: A yuletide soundtrack for a gaming holiday
The winter night hushed to a halt to allow the wind to whisper. "Take heart, my friends," she crooned over snow-capped hills and frozen...
End-of-Year Eleven: The best MMO expansions and updates of 2023
If you want to look at the overall health of the MMORPG industry, one vital heartbeat that must not be missed is continual development....
‘Aquatic adventure MMO’ Age of Water readies an early access release in the first quarter of 2024
It's been the hottest of minutes since we heard from Age of Water, the self-described "aquatic adventure MMO" set in a flooded post-apocalypse from...
LOTRO Legendarium: Recapping Lord of the Rings Online’s crazy-busy 2023
Sixteen pages. Sixteen pages is how far back I had to flip through Lord of the Rings Online's news feed here at Massively OP...
EVE Online adds new ice refinery heists and AIR daily goals, calls its first Vanguard test ‘a massive success’
Havoc continues to reign and expand in EVE Online, as the spaceship gankbox has made a couple of additions related to the recent update...
Sea of Thieves releases its stripped-down Safer Seas PvE mode, and the servers are already buckling
Today is the day when players who want to sail the Sea of Thieves with a vetted crew of friends and without the potential...
Skull and Bones is now targeting February 2024 for its launch following eleventy billion delays
Insider Gaming is reporting that Ubisoft has finally narrowed down Skull and Bones' launch date to February 16th, 2024. And believe it or not,...
EVE Online’s FPS module Vanguard will have its first test on December 7 for subscribers
When CCP Games announced EVE: Vanguard, the FPS module that claims to link itself to EVE Online, many people expressed skepticism, particularly since the...
EVE Online’s Havoc release sees player numbers swell over its launch weekend
Sure, a new major update bringing in lots of players could be considered "water is wet" news, but the fact remains that last week's...
Pirate 101 has a surprise mobile spinoff called Pirate101 Plunder Hunt
Every so often, something comes across our desks at Massively OP that makes us go, "Huh," and then say louder across the office, "Did...
Sea of Thieves takes players on a voyage to the Skull of Siren Song
Season 10 is proving to be a rather significant one for Sea of Thieves players. Hot on the heels of the addition of guilds...
EVE Online’s Havoc expansion is live, making players’ space pirate dreams a reality
As promised, EVE Online players are coasting into the sandbox's Havoc expansion today, which offers the life of a pirate to fans of the...
