retro
Working As Intended: The MMOs we lost in 2017
It's true that we lost a lot of MMOs in 2016 -- bigger and more important ones than in 2014 and 2015. 2017, however, has...
The Daily Grind: Would you be interested in a retro-styled MMORPG?
As it's been about a year now, I know that pretty much nobody remembers John Smedley's ill-fated Hero's Song. For a while there, we...
PSA: RIFT, ArcheAge, and Trove are reclaiming abandoned names, so save yours soon
Happy new year! You don't need that old, musty name any more, do you? Especially if it hasn't been used in a while?
While you're...
Battle Bards Episode 112: MMO minigame music
It’s time to take a diversion to play — and listen — to the minigames tucked inside of our MMOs! The Battle Bards haul...
The ultimate guide to The Game Archaeologist’s MMO archives
When we moved over here to Massively Overpowered, some of us transplanted our long-running columns to the new space. I perhaps felt most devastated...
The Stream Team: Snowfest fun in Trove
A winter wonderland of cubes? Massively OP's MJ says, yes please! Trove's holiday Snowfest is in full swing, and the hub is decked out...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the best value at the start of 2018
Let's talk about value. A couple of weeks back, I did an article on the healthiest games at the end of the year; today,...
The Game Archaeologist: Revisiting the first three months of World of Warcraft
Were you there?
Many of us were. Many weren't. Either way, November 23rd, 2004 was a watershed date for the MMORPG industry and one watched...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best graphical appeal as of 2017?
We don't give out a formal end-of-the-year award for MMO graphics at Massively OP. It'd be almost impossible to come to a consensus. As...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG articles of 2017
For this week's Massively Overthinking, I've asked the writers to do something most of them hate: brag! We've tried to isolate our favorite personal...
RIFT course-corrects on $100 mount pack while Trion gets into the holiday spirit
Well, that didn't last long. RIFT has already yanked its controversial $100 random mount packs from the game store following strong opposition from the...
Trion deals with DDOS attacks while ArcheAge dives into its Maelstrom update
Trion Worlds is reporting "intermittent" attacks on its Dallas hub over the last day that are causing connectivity issues for some of its online...
Dragon of Legends starts Steam early access testing next week
It has been a long, long while in the coming, but gorgeous pixelart RPG Dragon of Legends is finally coming to the public stage...
The Game Archaeologist: Vanguard Saga of Heroes
The significance of Vanguard's development, release, long-running drama, second chance, and eventual closure should be of great interest not just to game historians but...
Survived By arrives on Steam as its closed alpha progresses
The love child of bullet hell shooters and permadeath MMORPGs is now on Steam, and it's taking no prisoners. That's just not how it...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 146: World of Warcraft’s fun police
Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes' death, Darkfall New Dawn, LOTRO 2018, Neverwinter Nights, WoW's fun police, DDO, Hearthstone, and Trove, with mailbag discussions on Disney the lockbox villain and the max we'd pay for MMO subscriptions.
Trove continues to fine-tune its Adventures update
As any game developer knows, a new content update is not only an opportunity for players to have more fun but for the game...
The Stream Team: Turkeytopia bestows goodness in Trove
What is more Thanksgiving than hunting tukeys? What, you don't hunt your own turkey? Massively OP's MJ does -- in Trove! That's where turkeys...
Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2017
Stately resting between the gaudy purple and orange of Halloween and merry red and green of Christmas is the earth tone-saturated Thanksgiving. While no...
Trove’s freebie Turkeytopia boxes drop sweet turkey mounts for Thanksgiving
My favorite thing about Trove is that its developers feel absolutely no shame whatsoever about leaning into utter absurdity, hard, and frankly, I think...
