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The Stream Team: Bouncing through Trove’s Bunfest
Have you been to Bunfest? Massively OP's MJ hasn't, and life has been all the poorer for it! Today she changes all that,...
The Daily Grind: How have pandemic responses affected your MMO socializing?
Last week, my kids and I were playing Trove when I realized that global chat was absolutely filled with blabbering about the virus. It's...
Massively Overthinking: What generates trust in MMO crowdfunding for you?
Last week, an anonymous game developer posted on the MMORPG Reddit about the broader MMO playerbase's frustrations with crowdfunding. See, this dev says he's...
Satan has planted the most trees in Gamigo’s charity initiative so far
Last week, Gamigo announced a charity event to benefit Eden Reforestation Projects, selling packages that offer in-game items for MMOs like ArcheAge, RIFT, and...
Trove’s Bunfest offers new spring event content for Gamigo’s voxelbox
My five-year-old literally woke me up this morning chattering excitedly about "Bunfest" in Trove. Not bunnies - buns. She was insistent that this was...
Guild Wars 2 Super Adventure Box reopens next week, plus somebody bought the golden sink
Finally! ArenaNet had previously announced that Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box, inarguably the best April Fools' event in all of MMO land, was...
Massively Uplifting: Cake, coloring, and EVE Online’s PLEX4Good COVID-19 relief
The news this past month has been infected with the novel coronavirus. It's everywhere we turn, and we can't escape it even if we...
Fight or Kite: You’re stuck in the house, so PvP with the kids in Trove
It might not be the best time in history to be a human, but it is one of the best times to be a...
The Game Archaeologist: The history of Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box
In the MMORPG genre, April Fools' Day is especially relished as a time in which developers and studios can get a bit wacky and...
Massively Overthinking: How are MMO players faring through the pandemic?
This week's Overthinking is going to be a bit different from normal. As we've been covering extensively for more than the past two months,...
ArcheAge, RIFT, Trove, and more Gamigo MMOs launch a reforestation charity initiative
Gamigo is announcing a big charity project today with Eden Reforestation Projects, which will raise money to plant trees all over the world while...
Global Chat: Is Animal Crossing New Horizons an MMO?
One trend that we have noticed over the past decade or so is the blurring of lines between "regular" video games and MMORPGs. It...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 265: Delusions of Elyria
Justin, Bree, MJ, and Mia discuss Chronicles of Elyria, Guild Wars 2, PSO2, Ashes of Creation, Saga of Lucimia, WoW Classic and Burning Crusade, with adventures in LOTRO, Revelation Online, Don't Starve Together, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on player housing and optional sub servers.
Guild Wars 2’s Super Adventure Box is coming mid-April, not next week, and there’s no new World
I've joked a few times this week about how badly my kids want to play Super Adventure Box in Guild Wars 2, and I...
Guild Wars 2 explores player variety and choices in Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire
Not gonna lie, my kids have been begging me for Super Adventure Box all week, and everytime ArenaNet tweets something on the Guild Wars...
Trove’s latest PTS update brings an infinite dungeon
Things are about to get endless in Trove thanks to the introduction of delves, a combination of Geode's caverns with procedural generation to create...
Jukebox Heroes: Warframe’s soundtrack
I'm always keeping an ear out for recommended soundtracks from our readers here at Massively OP, and one that seems to get pushed my...
The Game Archaeologist: Shenmue Online
If you ever stumble across a Dreamcast enthusiast -- and believe me, they are everywhere -- on the forefront of their diatribe about how...
GDC plans summer events as studios from Gamigo to Blizzard to Riot see player surges
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread here in the US and around much of the world, changing life for nearly everyone - even in...
More and more MMOs are offering sales and events during the coronavirus pandemic
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread, MMOs and other MMO-adjacent games and studios continue to react, bringing their staffs home and offering bonuses...
