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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...
How to support Extra Life 2021, from Guild Wars 2 and EverQuest to LOTRO and City of Heroes
If you caught MJ's latest Massively Uplifting, you probably noticed that Extra Life is ramping up across the gaming industry, and particularly among MMORPG...
Hearthstone teases Deadmines mini-set’s November 2 arrival, Diablo II Resurrected promises lots of fixes
This little bundle of news is for those who like whimsical online CCGs or remasters of old ARPGs that are full of bugs. We're...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMORPGs you’ve already forgotten about
Not every MMORPG can remain in the spotlight forever. Time has a nasty habit of making us forget titles that used to rile up...
Sea of Thieves hands out free currency for hitting 25M players as its Halloween event rolls on
How does a game like Sea of Thieves celebrate a milestone like hitting over 25 million players? By handing out a huge pile of...
Snag a Conqueror’s Blade Siren’s Sons Attire pack key from My.Games and MOP
With Conqueror's Blade's season nine fully upon us and running through December, now's the perfect time to take advantage of the new campaign in...
Atlas brings its MMO to port for Halloween activities
Halloween, ho! Atlas' motley crew of pirates, scallywags, and scum of the earth are taking a break in their routine of pillaging and terrorizing...
Wizard101 and Pirate101 get ‘spooktacular’ with Halloween and anniversary events
Considering that Wizard101's multi-genre setting is already 79% of the way to Halloween most days of the year, pushing it over the edge into...
Star Wars The Old Republic brings combat styles for Sith Warrior and Bounty Hunter advanced classes to PTS
It appears that Star Wars: The Old Republic is ramping up its combat style testing efforts. Now that the Sith Assassin and Sorcerer classes...
The Game Archaeologist: Kingdom of Loathing
It is, in so many ways, the antithesis of a modern MMORPG. It has crude stick figure drawings instead of lush 3-D graphics. It...
Atlas introduces the Broadsider as a new modular blueprint ship
A group of pirates sits in a smoky room with notepads and quills, staring at a blueprint for a ship on a board at...
Sea of Thieves’ fourth season is live, sending sailors to the Sunken Kingdom
Sea of Thieves' fourth season has officially set sail this morning, and it's packed with new content, including the Sunken Kingdom and its Siren...
Perfect Ten: Shapeshifting classes in MMOs
After my wife and I saw an X-Men movie a while back, we got into a discussion about what mutant power we'd pick for...
