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Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO surprises of 2018
Everyone loves surprises, right? Not always. Even good surprises can be a disruption of our comfortable routines, and bad ones can downright ruin a...
Massively OP’s 2018 Blooper Awards: Best feel-good moment for the MMO genre
Massively OP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our blooper award for best feel-good moment for the MMO genre. And the winner is...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v2.0
While The Game Archaeologist columns take up the most time of any project I do here at Massively OP, I absolutely love doing them...
The continuing early access launch saga of Wildcard’s new pirate MMO Atlas
(We're updating this post at the bottom as the drama unfolds!)
Marking its third delay since its announcement just two weeks ago, Wildcard's pirate MMO Atlas...
Wildcard’s new pirate MMO Atlas has been delayed yet again
If you've been refreshing Atlas' Steam page all day today (guilty), you might have noticed that it didn't actually launch into early access as...
Pirate MMO Atlas is trying to psych you up for tomorrow’s early access launch
We here at Massively OP don't know everything there is about sailing, but we're guessing that in about thirty seconds, that giraffe up there...
The MOP Up: Echo of Soul returns
Korean MMO Echo of Soul is now back on Steam early access after the title was shut down back around 2015 and 2016. It's...
More details emerge about Studio Wildcard’s Atlas as next week’s launch looms
Even with a slight delay, the launch of Studio Wildcard's Atlas has come out of nowhere this holiday season and sent many MMO gamers...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 200: Daybreak strikes back
Justin and Bree celebrate 200 episodes with discussion on site memories, plus Daybreak, Wildcard's Atlas, Ashes of Creation, Warframe, LOTRO and DDO, and Path of Exile, with mailbag topics on finding time to game and how studios should manage hype.
Choose My Adventure: Postcards from the Star Citizen universe
Your votes last week in my first Choose My Adventure gave me a great way to start looking around the environs of Star Citizen...
WoW Factor: The zones that changed the most from Classic, Eastern Kingdoms edition
We've got a little while until World of Warcraft actually drops its Classic server, but the nice thing is that those of us who have...
ARK’s Studio Wildcard is launching a 40K-person-server pirate MMO called Atlas next week
If you blinked during the Game Awards on Twitch, you might have missed the announcement of a new MMO launching next week from the...
Sea of Thieves shows off its new Shrouded Spoils update in latest stream highlights video
Last week, Sea of Thieves's major content update Shrouded Spoils hit the high seas, adding a slew of new content to Rare's piracy sandbox,...
SWTOR: Subber companion freebie, Jedi Under Siege lore, and Life Day on the way
With Jedi Under Siege launching December 11th, BioWare is ramping up its hype machine for Star Wars: The Old Republic. To wit:
There's a...
Sea of Thieves’ foggy Shrouded Spoils update rolls out tomorrow
Avast, mateys, what's that just on the horizon? Why, it's Sea of Thieves's next content update, Shrouded Spoils, which the team at Rare has...
One Shots: Take me home, country roads
I can't tell if Deekay Plus' headlining shot from Fallout 76 here is that of a gorgeous West Virginia sunrise -- or an in-progress...
Sea of Thieves previews the PvP arena, the Sea Dogs trading company, and pets
Sea of Thieves Executive Producer Joe Neate is back again for another developer update video, and this week the focus is on the upcoming...
Sea of Thieves adds makeup and improves tentacle collision with Festival of the Damned
Sea of Thieves is saying farewell to Forsaken Shores and hello to the Festival of the Damned today, just barely in time for the Halloween...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs should be preserved in the Video Game Museum?
In returning to the video game preservation debate this week following the DMCA exceptions granted to museums and archivists allowing them to archive online...
MMOs on the fringe: Warhawk, Spellbreak, Survival Heroes, and Vendetta Online
Quick: What does a team shooter, a battle royale game, a MOBA, and an MMO have in common? Answer: They're all in this weird...
