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The Game Archaeologist: Middle-earth Online
I suppose there will always be a special place in my heart for Lord of the Rings Online. Not only is it one of...
A video guide to Trove’s refined gem system
Trove's Mantle of Power expansion launched last April, and players weren't exactly thrilled about the new gem system. Since then, devs have been listening...
The Game Archaeologist: True Fantasy Live Online
As an extremely amateur historian -- and an extremely attractive archaeologist -- I've always been fascinated with the "what ifs" of gaming's timeline. What...
EU gaming blogs seemingly confirm RIFT’s Starfall Prophecy expansion
Earlier this month, we wrote about a Trion Worlds video game software trademark filing for "Starfall Prophecy," which prompted speculation on whether that might...
One Shots: Strange voyages
As cool and iconic that Star Trek ships look, I've always thought they also came across as fragile, with pieces sticking out here and...
The Game Archaeologist: Sega’s 10six MMO
If you were to think of Sega and MMOs, chances are the only thing that would come to mind is the Phantasy Star Online franchise....
Massively Overthinking: The golden age of MMORPGs
This week's Massively Overthinking is a serious one from our dear Patreon patron Duane. Here's the jumping off point for his topic:
"There has lately...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 74: Go Pokémon Go!
Justin and Bree discuss WoW, Pokemon Go, Trove, SWTOR's KOTET, and GW2 season 3, with mailbag questions on depression and ESO advice, plus an epic ad rant.
Pixel Wars: CubeMatrix puts a full-blown voxel MMO on your mobile device
Don't be fooled by the voxels: This isn't SkySaga, Trove, or CubeWorld, but a new title entirely called Pixel Wars: Cube Matrix.
According to the...
Trion’s Scott Hartsman on Trove’s console launch, fighting lag, and whether RIFT is next
Following Trion's announcement earlier this week that its cutesy voxel sandbox MMORPG Trove had registered five million players in its first year and that...
Trove’s handing out free mounts, level boosters, and lootboxes for its birthday
As part of its birthday celebration -- oh yeah, and to commemorate its recently announced plan to launch on consoles -- Trove is rolling...
ArenaNet on Guild Wars 2 PvP scouting, aquatic combat, and polling the playerbase
If you thought there was a lot of story in the recent Guild Wars 2 living world season 3 reveal, you're not alone. I...
Trove is headed to console as it celebrates 5M players
Here's some happy news for this week's birthday game: Trion is launching voxelbox Trove on PS4 and Xbox One later this year and touting...
The Stream Team: Trove turns one!
Over the weekend Trove turned one year old. You know what that means: Party time! MassivelyOP's MJ is hopping back into the blocks to...
The Game Archaeologist: Eight launch trailers from classic MMOs
When YouTube first became a thing, I dismissed it as a site that was mostly preoccupied with people talking into cameras in an attempt...
The Daily Grind: Did you buy any MMOs during the Steam sale?
Steam's big summer sale is over today -- about five hours from the time this post goes live, smack in the middle of 4th-of-July...
The Game Archaeologist: Dark Age of Camelot
Today, we take a trip to England, but not the England of our timeline. No, this is the England-That-Could-Have-Been, the England of King Arthur,...
The Game Archaeologist talks to the Asheron’s Call super-fan
A little while back, I received a rather passionate email from Massively OP reader Diego regarding Asheron's Call. He had quite a lot to...
Jukebox Heroes: MMO victory fanfares
Interestingly enough, there are a few types of video game music that don't often pop up in MMORPGs for various reasons. One of these...
The Game Archaeologist: The Shadow of Yserbius
Really, I blame my parents for not being filthy rich.
If they had been, we could've afforded the $130/month unlimited subscription fee to the ImagiNation...
