pirates
Perfect Ten: Solo prequel games to MMORPGs
When studios go about making MMORPGs, risk comes along with the effect as a matter of course. The only question is how to reduce...
Pirate101 and Wizard101 are both getting new card packs
Coming soon, Kingisle will simultaneously launch new card packs for both Wizard101 and Pirate101, bringing them directly to live with no stop on the...
Preview: Dual Universe demos alpha 2’s player economy, solar system, and space stations
You know that feeling when you follow a game's development and it just keeps getting better and better? I don't mean the promises of...
Atlas plans one more massive wipe plus weekend update ahead of Xbox One launch
Yesterday, Xbox One fans got some good news out of in-development pirate MMO Atlas: It's launching on the platform's early access equivalent on October...
Early access pirate MMO Atlas is launching on Xbox One next week – with PC crossplay
Atlas has been one of the odder MMOs we've covered this last year. In spite of a bungled launch, it managed to avoid the...
Sea of Thieves celebrates talk like a pirate day with sweet Twitch loot
Dang, I almost forgot it was talk like a pirate day! If you aren't into LOTRO and World of Warcraft's take on the second-most...
Funcom’s running a free-play weekend for Conan Exiles, Conan Unconquered, and Age of Conan
Conan fans, this unlikely weekend is your moment to shine, as Funcom's making all the things free free free.
First up is Conan Exiles, normally...
Pirate holidays make landfall in LOTRO and World of Warcraft this week
Disclaimer: This author's family threw him a pirate-themed 30th birthday party and he walked the plank and it was definitely an amazing experience. Double...
The Stream Team: Experience AdventureQuest 3D’s new Friday the 13th dungeon
No one has a better Friday the 13th event than AQ3D, and this year there's a brand-new dungeon in Camp Gonnagetcha. Massively OPs MJ...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Dragonhold DLC hits the PTS on September 16
Elder Scrolls Online is pushing onward to the biggest release of the season: the Dragonhold DLC. And today's blog post from ZeniMax offers a...
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...
Sea of Thieves talks Arena Mode, matchmaking, and player conduct
We've got a pair of Sea of Thieves videos floating about in the internet waters that we've fished out, filleted, and battered and fried...
