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Age of Conan celebrates its tenth birthday by throwing lions at everyone
Ten years of live operation, and Conan still looks like someone killed his puppy. Maybe you need a new hobby, Mr. The Barbarian? We...
The Crew 2 posts new trailers for its May 31st closed beta run
Just ahead of this year's E3, Ubisoft is rolling out The Crew 2's closed beta - that's May 31st through June 4th, and yep,...
RIFT hotfix brings soul changes, dragons, and events to the servers
While its rollout has been rocky today, RIFT's "lucky" 13th hotfix brought a lot of content and changes to both the regular and Prime...
Lord of the Rings Online’s 2018 roadmap includes a huge northern expansion and seasonal instances
Don't call it a full-fledged expansion, but Lord of the Rings Online's next content update may be nearing that level of content and focus.
Standing...
Global Chat: The MMO expansion lifecycle
With the ever-developing, ever-growing nature of MMORPGs, the expansion truly has a life of its own. By now we are well acquainted with the...
Wisdom of Nym: The last batch of Final Fantasy XIV patch reveals
You know, I seriously could have sworn that I publicly predicted the next Final Fantasy XIV patch would be out on May 22nd. But...
Elder Scrolls Online: Summerset’s 12-player trial includes choices and divisions
Just because Summerset looks like a vacation paradise doesn't mean that it's free from worries and troubles. For starters, the city of Cloudrest is...
One Shots: First MMO loves
What was your first? Not necessarily the first MMORPG you ever played, but the first that made you fall in love with that game...
Hands-on with Bless Reborn at Neowiz’s San Francisco media reveal
As you probably have heard, there was a Bless influencer event this week, with a couple of media and a smattering of MMO streamers...
EverQuest II shows off the Shard of Hate
HATE. LET INNORUUK TELL YOU HOW MUCH HE'S COME TO HATE YOU SINCE HE BEGAN TO LIVE. THERE IS AN ENTIRE DIMENSION THAT SPANS...
Exit light, enter Blade & Soul’s Eternal Night update
Today is May 9th. And that is a wonderful, marvelous day if you happen to be a Blade & Soul fan, because it's the...
EverQuest boss bug bottlenecks progression servers
A nasty bug on EverQuest's progression servers has kept players from completing an expansion boss for over a year now, with bug reports and...
World of Warcraft DDOSer sentenced to a year in prison, Blizzard chats about Battle for Azeroth’s latest round of faction wars
Blizzard is not messing around with DDOS attacks. The BBC has a piece out on a World of Warcraft player from Romania, Calin Mateias, who...
Destiny 2’s Warmind expansion is live today – here’s the launch trailer
Will Warmind be enough to help Destiny 2 recapture the hearts and minds of Bungie fans? We don't know the answer to that yet....
Wisdom of Nym: The Alliance Raids of Final Fantasy XIV
When the next major Final Fantasy XIV patch arrives later this month, we'll be staring down the games eighth alliance raid. That might not...
Generation 3 is basically Pokemon Go’s One Tamriel: How Niantic has actually improved POGO
A lot of critical things have been said about Pokemon Go and Niantic in the past. Professionals that tried to defend certain UI elements still had plenty...
One Shots: All giant spiders, all the time
Sometimes I am just so proud of our One Shots crowd here at Massively OP. I keep coming up with ludicrous screenshot challenges and...
Massively Overthinking: The state of modern MMORPG raiding
Massively OP reader Sorrior recently sent in a question about raiding, a topic we haven't discussed in a while.
"I have noticed raiding tends to...
Soulworker patches in new playable character Jin, new endgame raid
SoulWorker's getting a new toon today, marking the fifth playable character in the anime MMORPG. Who is he? Jin Seipatsu, a "courageous boy stricken...
Conan Exiles outlines its day-one patch plans as players grumble over preorder bonuses
With less than a week to go before launch, the Conan Exiles team is putting out one last newsletter with the plan for the...