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Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up WildStar
Writing about WildStar at this point feels weird.
Obviously, I just finished up playing the game for this feature for four weeks. It feels fresh...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Creating a better balance in Guild Wars 2 raiding
One of the major concerns aired by the Guild Wars 2 playerbase regarding raid content is the risk of juicy raid-only story details being gated...
The Soapbox: What the Mass Effect Andromeda kerfuffle ought to teach us about games criticism
Today is the official release of Mass Effect: Andromeda, which was preceded by the frankly baffling decision to allow people access to an early...
Blade & Soul switches to larger, slower updates with brand-new Secrets of the Stratus
Blade & Soul is rolling out a massive expansion next month, one NCsoft says "marks a shift in pace for the game."
Dubbed Secrets of...
Massively Overthinking: When social play in MMOs is predatory by design
Blogger Tobold recently wrote a provocative piece on social play in MMOs, as pointed out to us by our dear tipster Sally. In a...
Dungeons and Dragons Online releases the Dragonborn race as Update 35 goes live
For some people, it's not enough to just exist in a virtual world with dragons and occasionally fight against them; they want to become...
OrbusVR has fully funded on Kickstarter
OrbusVR, the blocky indie VR sandbox from Ad Alternum, has finished out its Kickstarter successfully this morning.
The studio had originally promised a brief, one-week...
PAX East 2017: Talking Conan Exiles on the show floor with Funcom
If you're a fan of Funcom and the games it makes, Conan Exiles probably has you breathing a bit easier than you have in a...
One Shots: No more worlds to conquer
There's that special joy that every screenshotter knows when you're able to get that perfect angle, that photogenic pose, and then capture it for...
The Stream Team: More monkey (raid) business in ARK
When at first you don't succeed, take in more rocket launchers! That's the answer for Massively OP's MJ anyway. She and the raid team...
A space starfish is attacking DC Universe Online, seriously
To honor the upcoming Justice League movie, the devs over at DC Universe Online are roping in the very first villain that fought this...
EverQuest II activates 14 expert dungeons and raids
EverQuest II is pouring a dollop of danger in the cups of its players this week, thanks to the activation of expert modes for...
The Perfect Ten: A plague of MMO bears
I have long been of the opinion that there are few more terrifying animals on this planet than bears. Sure, there are sharks, the...
Destiny plans a final hurrah before Destiny 2
Just because Bungie is ramping up production and talk of this year's Destiny 2 doesn't mean that the studio has completely written off the...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Getting to grips with Guild Wars 2’s Bastion of the Penitent
ArenaNet launched a new standalone raid tier, dubbed Bastion of the Penitent, alongside The Head of the Snake Living World chapter, but I've not...
The Daily Grind: What provokes you to kick MMO group members?
Yesterday, Blizzard Watch writer Dan O'Halloran recounted -- unfavorably -- dispiriting tales about looking-for-raid scenarios in World of Warcraft that end in vote-kicking --...
Blizzard is considering WoW competitive raiding e-sports again
If you were annoyed by the apparent subsumption of World of Warcraft art and lore panels by other games' e-sports at last year's BlizzCon,...
Lineage 2 preps a brand-new EU server, asks players to vote on its name
For the first time in five years, Lineage 2 is opening up a brand-new server for its European community. The server, which is currently...
Massively Overthinking: Mainstream misconceptions about MMORPGs
Massively OP reader Arsin Halfmoon pitched the team a great question this week, poached straight from the podcast list:
"As someone deeply invested in the MMO...
Guild Wars 2 peeks behind-the-scenes at its ‘chess raid’
How does chess factor into MMORPGs? When it comes to Guild Wars 2's newest raid, Bastion of the Penitent, the age-old tabletop game was...
