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Phantasy Star Online 2 is getting a new mecha-themed class in Japan
Now that Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming to North America (really, they mean it this time, until they don't), it feels a little...
Bandai Namco says it has ‘no plans’ to release Blue Protocol in the west ‘at the moment’
Ever since Bandai Namco announced anime MMO Blue Protocol earlier this July, MMO fans have been champing at the bit for more info as...
Recapping Black Desert’s massive E3 and Heidel Ball announcements
I said this morning that I thought Black Desert stole the show for E3 players - apart from the Phantasy Star Online 2 announcement,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 224: Black Desert, Bless Online, and boats
Carlo, Bree, and Justin discuss Black Desert, Bless, Phantasy Star Online 2, E3, LOTRO, SWTOR, GW2, POE, City of Heroes, and boats.
The Daily Grind: Are you going to play Phantasy Star Online 2 next year?
The surprising E3 news that Phantasy Star Online 2 was finally, finally coming to western shores in 2020 made all of our eyebrows shoot...
E3 2019: Phantasy Star Online 2 is finally coming to the US in 2020
All right, so it has already been seven years and basically everyone who was excited about this game has probably long since given up...
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...
Wisdom of Nym: Hunting the monster in Final Fantasy XIV
Patch 4.36 sure seems as if it's has been dragged out. Realistically, that's not what has happened at all; the time between patches has remained...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO debuts by year, 1997-2006
By now, many of you probably know that I'm the curator of the MMO Timeline on my personal blog. On this page, I've attempted...
Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming to the Nintendo Switch… which does not have region locks
We had really thought that after the never-updated website finally shut down last year we would be done talking about Phantasy Star Online 2,...
The ultimate guide to The Game Archaeologist’s MMO archives
When we moved over here to Massively Overpowered, some of us transplanted our long-running columns to the new space. I perhaps felt most devastated...
Phantasy Star Online 2 website quietly shutters
Players hoping for Phantasy Star Online 2 in the west have been holding onto a thin sliver of hope for five years now. Back...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 136: Westward ho!
Justin and Bree discuss Wild West Online, Star Citizen, EVE Online, Black Desert, Phantasy Star Online 2, FFXIV, DDO, Neverwinter, Ultima Online, and of course Guild Wars 2, with mailbag entries on Star Citizen's monetization and solid free-to-play side MMOs.
Phantasy Star Online 2 is coming to Nintendo Switch… in Japan only
At what point is Sega officially just taunting Phantasy Star Online 2 fans in North America? It's hard to be sure, but the announcement...
The Game Archaeologist: EverQuest Online Adventures
In the pantheon of SOE's (now Daybreak) flagship EverQuest franchise, there used to be a whole family of MMOs gathered around the table every evening....
Global Chat: What Asian MMOs can learn from the west
Usually when it comes to discussing world hemispheres of MMO game design, comments and observations are made about what western studios can learn from their...
Phantasy Star Online 2 unveils its Hero class this month — and here’s how you can play it
Phantasy Star Online 2's most advanced class to date is getting ready to break into the scene later this month. On July 26th, the...
The Game Archaeologist: Phantasy Star Online
The Dreamcast was a brief but shining aberration in the gaming world. Coming along years after Sega had fallen out of its position as...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs would you include among the greatest RPGs of all time?
Massively OP reader Francois recently pointed us to IGN's Top 100 RPGs of All Time, which we thought was worth a nod since unlike...
Perfect Ten: Exploring MMORPGs from the far corners of the world
Have you ever noticed that while there's an entire world out there, most all of the MMORPGs we discuss and play tend to either...
