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End-of-Year Eleven: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2020
With so many delays, it's a wonder that anything released this year at all! And while new patches and expansions trickled rather than flowed...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Most Improved MMO
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Most Improved MMO, which was awarded to Black Desert last year. All live...
Massively Uplifting: Giving while giving thanks as ARK, Ashes of Creation, Rainbow Six Siege, and more support charity
Around these parts, November highlights giving thanks (though no country has a monopoly on the practice!), and this past month not only gave us...
LOTRO Legendarium: What Daybreak’s sale revealed about LOTRO
Just when I thought we were getting to a quieter point in the year where I could engage in a leisurely wrap-up of the...
Console LOTRO and DCUO’s huge playerbase: Everything we just learned about Daybreak thanks to EG7
MMO twitter has been ablaze since yesterday's announcement that Daybreak is being bought up in its entirety by Swedish games company Enad Global 7,...
LOTRO, DDO, EverQuest, DCUO, and PlanetSide 2 studio heads reassure players about Daybreak sale
Following yesterday's revelation that Daybreak has been sold to Swedish company Enad Global 7 for $300M, the bosses at Daybreak's substudio have all now...
Daybreak has been sold – again – this time to EG7 Global for $300M
Who had this on the end-of-the-year bingo card? Apparently, Daybreak has been bought out - again.
The company holding the hot potato this round is...
The MOP Up: Shadow Arena pings instead of pongs
Pearl Abyss' Shadow Arena got a lot more friendly this past month thanks to an improved ping system and the addition of login rewards.
"The...
PlanetSide 2 marks eight years with free gifts, double XP, and chapter two of Shattered Warpgate
It's been eight years of PlanetSide 2 and Daybreak Games is keen to celebrate with its anniversary update, which has arrived today for PC...
EverQuesting: A sweet sixteen EverQuest II anniversary retrospective
Happy birthday, sweet sixteen! If you think I've waited 16 years to be able to sing that to EverQuest II, well, you aren't wrong....
PlanetSide 2 kicks off Nanite of the Living Dead VII: The Seeds Must Flow today
The annual Halloween event has arrived in PlanetSide 2 as of today, and you get the vague sense that the designers really went all in on...
Standing Stone, Daybreak, KingsIsle, and more MMO companies will fundraise for Extra Life 2020
The season of Extra Life is almost upon us, meaning all your favorite MMO studios are going to be dispatching their developers to play...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 291: Day of Delays
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Shadowlands' and Magic Legends' delays, Torchlight 3's planned launch, PlanetSide 2's big patch, Skyforge's Switch announcement, and HEX's sunset, with a Daily Grind lightning round and mailbag topics on feelung untethered from MMOs, live podcasts, and MMO dailies.
PlanetSide 2 on PC adds new missions, revamps Esamir, and introduces the first campaign with the Shattered Warpgate update
A self-described "massive, multi-faceted" update for PlanetSide 2 has arrived to the PC version of the multiplayer shooter. Say hello to the Shattered Warpgate...
PlanetSide 2 announces Shattered Warpgate content campaign
Just a day or two ago I was chatting with an MOP commenter about how PlanetSide 2 really took off this year, getting more...
Daybreak has acquired Cold Iron Studios and its Alien MMOFPS [Updated]
We've updated the end of this post with the confirmation and press release; we've left the original reporting intact.
For the last year, it seems...
Massively Uplifting: Good deeds don’t take the summer off for Bungie, Niantic, and Trolls in WoW
When summer comes, some lucky folks get to take the season off. Even those who continue on their regular labors often head out on...
The Game Archaeologist: Clone Wars Adventures, the Star Wars MMO everyone kinda forgot
Whenever the topic -- the argument -- of Star Wars MMOs arises, the debate is usually between the merits of the sandboxy Star Wars...
PlanetSide 2 releases its massive Escalation update to PS4 today, promises future PC update parity
Nearly eight months' worth of PC updates for PlanetSide 2 will finally arrive to PlayStation 4 players today with the Escalation update in what...
The in-game memorial for a fallen PlanetSide 2 player spanned four instances this weekend
You know, I am always conflicted about these types of stories: They are tragedies, and nobody wants to have to tell a community that...
