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Progress Bar: The bullet hell of Survived By
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Progress Bar! This monthly column will be my personal look at early access MMO, MMO-like, and multiplayer games...
RuneScape previews mining and smithing overhaul, a new elite dungeon, and more early-2019 plans
Now that the new year is officially here, the folks at Jagex have decided to release a new video to give RuneScape players a...
World of Warcraft’s next raid, Battle of Dazar’alor, starts unlocking on January 22
It turns out that the next World of Warcraft raid won't exactly have sections differentiated for the two major factions; as the raid preview explains,...
Astellia’s Korean beta update adds Avalon battlefield and legendary dungeons
Nexon's Astellia might not be on your radar as a possible eastern import -- but perhaps it should? The hybrid MMO/card game continues to...
Blizzard details new HOTS cadence, shames toxic Overwatch pros, and pays over 100 Irish staff to leave
Despite the recent news from Blizzard that Heroes of the Storm's development cadence is being scaled back, with some of its developers being shifted...
Crowfall muses on lessons learned from first test campaigns
Earlier this week, Crowfall began its first ever proper campaigns, allowing players to fight it out in a three-faction brawl for survival and control...
Hands-on: Dipping into Ashes of Creation’s Apocalypse battle royale
The first question we need to ask is: What am I, the sheepiest of all PvE sheep, doing in a PvP battle royale game?...
Conan Exiles recaps 2018, talks plans for dungeons, The Purge, and thrall AI
The folks at Funcom have released the latest Conan Exiles newsletter -- the last of 2018, in fact -- and as is the custom...
Warframe aims for Discord Store, previews Fortuna fixes – including cutscene skipping
Fortuna part two may have made it before the holidays, but that doesn't mean the Warframe team is done tinkering. Digital Extremes has already...
Final Fantasy XIV updates its patch site with new haircuts and the next trial
The next patch for Final Fantasy XIV is arriving in early 2019, and you can check out more of the features of that patch on...
Fallout 76 previews upcoming features and updates of 2019
Today's Fallout 76 hotfix is officially the game's last update of 2018, but the folks at Bethesda are already looking ahead to 2019 in...
MapleStory 2’s next big expansion launches summer 2019
It's been an eventful -- albeit short -- year for MapleStory 2, which just launched in October and released its major Skybound expansion early...
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...
LOTRO Legendarium: Lord of the Rings Online’s 2018 review
It was the best of years, it was the worst of years for Lord of the Rings Online -- but no matter what, it...
Final Fantasy XIV’s second Encyclopedia Eorzea is even better than the first
The second volume of Final Fantasy XIV's Encyclopedia Eorzea was the only item I wanted to get on the floor of the fan festival a...
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.
Warframe garners over a million downloads on Switch, previews second wave of Fortuna content
The folks at Digital Extremes are sending 2018 out with a bang, it seems, as they've just announced that Warframe has received over a...
Final Fantasy XIV brings UI transparency and random favorite mounts in patch 4.5
The second part of the previews for Final Fantasy XIV's next major patch (and last one before its third expansion) will be taking place on...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2018
It's become a tradition on Massively OP to include among our end-of-the-year roundups and editorials and retrospectives a run-down of our favorite - and least favorite - MMO dev quotes of the year, be they obscure, poignant, or just plain dumb. So once again, for this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked our staff to offer up those quotes and then reflect on what we from the year and reflect on just what we've learned from them.
BioWare touts Anthem’s story, drops Game Awards trailer
During last night's Game Awards, while much of the news revolved around Red Dead Redemption 2Â maybe winning a bit too much and WildCard's next...
