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Perfect Ten: Ten quirky and interesting MMOs worth trying
Quite often while I'm writing columns for Massively OP, the catalyst behind a given topic is what interests me right then -- and, I...
Trove’s newest PC update revamps the Boomeranger class
PC-playing fans of Trove's Boomeranger class are waking up to something new as the game's latest update has brought on a revamp for the...
The Game Archaeologist: Dark Ages, the weird lovechild of Celtic lore and Lovecraftian legends
While the online world was fascinated by "the Big Three" Western MMOs in 1999 -- that would be EverQuest, Ultima Online, and Asheron's Call...
Blade & Soul adds a new dungeon, Halloween, and the Musician class on October 12
Are you ready for the Symphony of Destruction in Blade & Soul? No, this doesn't mean the MMORPG is collaborating with Megadeth, but it...
Raph ‘Designer Dragon’ Koster reminisces on 25 years of Ultima Online
While our own Game Archaeologist columnist Justin offered a retrospective of Ultima Online (and its alt ruleset server New Legacy was delayed into next...
Retro-styled roguelike MMO Mythic releases on September 29
We've been keeping tabs on Mythic for the past few months now. Readers will remember the pixel-art roguelike MMO from Abyssal Studios LLC. first...
RuneScape outlines content plans for 2022 and 2023, Old School RuneScape continues tuning its raid
RuneScape promised to outline plans for its next series of updates in its weekly newsletter, and sure enough it delivered. The devs at Jagex...
The Daily Grind: Are isometric-ish viewpoints in MMOs a turnoff?
When we did our roundtable on the biggest MMORPGs in 2022, I included Albion Online among them, and I stand by that inclusion. Regardless...
Fight or Kite: Warspear Online is a retro MMO that left me asking questions – mainly, ‘why?’
I absolutely love and adore retro and retro-inspired games - games from the 8-bit era are my bread and butter. The NES was my...
One Shots: Zen and the art of motorcycle flying
As we all well know, motorcycles are among the safest forms of transportation ever devised. This is especially true if you careen off-road without...
The Stream Team: Playing cowasaurs and dinoboys with Trove
Ah, the memories of playing cowasaurs and dinoboys when we're young. Wait... that doesn't sound right. But it is right right now in Trove!...
Trove’s Cowasaurs and Dinoboys event sees dinosaurs and cowboys try to encourage each other
Dinosaurs and cowboys would already make strange bedfellows, but what if both factions were trying to encourage people that the opposite side is awesome?...
Monumental, the studio that bought Crowfall, just bought Boundless too
To make some sense of this press release and why it matters to MMO fans, we're going to have to throw it back to...
The Game Archaeologist: The legacy of Ultima Online
Last week in The Game Archaeologist, we traced the history of Ultima Online’s origin, development, and testing -- not to mention one pesky in-game...
NFT gaming consultant proposes conscripting poor gamers as MMO NPCs
In case you needed another reason to keep crypto out of gaming, a new article on Rest of World chronicles an NFT scheme in...
The Game Archaeologist: How Ultima Online got made
You know how there’s that yokel in every global chat channel that likes to troll players by claiming that World of Warcraft was the...
Atomic Heart teases a Bioshock-like journey through an alternate USSR
In Atomic Heart, a new first-person shooter from Mundfish, the clock is rewound back to the 1950s and players are shuttled into an alternate...
Minecraft-powered MMORPG Wynncraft enters open beta for its 2.0 update before its full release
It's been five years since we peered in on Wynncraft, the MMORPG that runs on Minecraft (just in case any of the other voxelbox...
Global Chat: Will World of Warcraft ever give up its raiding fixation?
MMO blog Kaylriene posted a lengthy article recently examining the state of the non-raiding scene in World of Warcraft while comparing it to Blizzard's...
Massively Overthinking: The most unusual subscriptions in the MMO space
A while back on the MassivelyOP Podcast, so long ago that I can't remember who or when, a listener asked us about unusual MMO...
