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Guild Wars 2’s Shadow of the Mad King Halloween event returns next week
His jokes always slay the audience: Yes, Mad King Thorn returns to Guild Wars 2 this year as the Shadow of the Mad King...
Trove teases gardening overhaul with new minipets and new growables
One of the upcoming sliced of Trove content on the way with the Geode part two is something every farmer should appreciate. No, not...
Trove interview teases upcoming Geode surface world, gem tutorial, dungeon design, and Bomber Royale’s reception
At the tail end of September, Trove website Trovesaurus posted up a belated but quite welcome Gamescom interview with Trion Worlds that gives a...
Massively OP Podcast episode 189: Time traveling to 2004
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic, WildStar, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Maplestory 2, Age of Conan, Fallout 76, Guild Wars 2, Star Wars Galaxies, and Trove, with mailbag questions on SWTOR, starting as a true newbie in WoW, and power imbalances in MMOs.
The Daily Grind: What MMO still needs legacy servers?
2018 has seemed like the year of the legacy/vanilla MMO server, thanks to not just World of Warcraft but RIFT and Age of Conan...
The Stream Team: How now, Brown Cow – it’s a new Trove event!
An event and a story? It's Massively OP's birthday! OK, not really, but it feels like it! With Trove's Remembrance of Reng, she's getting...
Mojang reveals multiplayer dungeon crawler Minecraft Dungeons
File this one under multiplayer: Mojang is having another go at Minecraft offspring, this one in the forum of classic dungeon crawler. It's called...
Trove’s latest event sends players to the Forbidden Spires, the best biome in the game
Trove's Forbidden Spires are my jam. When I go into a level-band zone for adventuring, the first thing I do is scout out my...
Fortnite counts almost 80M players per month as the Fall Skirmish boots up
Still snubbing Fortnite as a kids game? You're not alone, but you're definitely in the minority. It turns out that Epic Games has roped...
The Game Archaeologist: City of Heroes moves into the Paragon Studios era
As we move into the fourth of five installments in the history, development, and downfall of City of Heroes, you may be wondering why...
Trion Worlds rebuts staffing rumors, confirms RIFT is not in maintenance mode
We received a concerning tip today claiming MMORPG company Trion Worlds was forcing employees into paid time off ahead of some sort of September...
The Game Archaeologist: City of Villains, enhancement diversification, and Going Rogue
It's always easy to look back at the making of City of Heroes and its first year with a memory tinted toward the good...
Trove gives you the chance to reroll your secondary stats
If Trove is your on-the-side MMO that you visit occasionally, you may want to check in with it this weekend. This is due to...
Mortal Online sandbox MMO devs try battle royale with Mortal Royale
Trove, Skyforge, and now Mortal Online - it's a weird batch of MMORPGs whose devs are getting into the battle royale scene, but there...
The Stream Team: A first look at Broke Protocol
Now that Massively OP's MJ is more amenable to blocky games, it's time to up the ante with Broke Protocol! A persistent sandbox game,...
The Stream Team: Sharing a stash of Trove summer festival stuff
Massively OP's MJ doesn't need a festival to log in and play Trove anymore, not since Geode. And she doesn't need a reason to...
Broke Protocol is currently free on Steam to celebrate its first birthday
Remember Broke Protocol, the funky sandbox that's basically a mash-up of Minecraft and Grand Theft Auto, with voxel graphics bolstering cops-and-robbers gameplay? It's apparently...
Trion’s compensation for Trove’s exploit-driven downtime is absurdly generous
Last week, Trion Worlds was forced to take MMORPGÂ Trove offline for more than a day on PC thanks to what was clearly a massive...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 182: Follow the Torchlight
Justin and Bree discuss World of Warcraft, Star Wars Galaxies, LOTRO, Torchlight Frontiers, Diablo, RuneScape Classic, Trove, and No Man's Sky. And also haiku!
Fallout 76 reveals more about perks, PvP, and proprietary platforms
This past weekend was a treasure trove of information for fans of Fallout 76. Bethesda ran some panels and Q&A discussions at QuakeCon, giving...
