sci-fantasy
Skyforge outlines its plans for the next quarter, centering around deities in space
The lore of Skyforge has always been concerned with space. Lots of beings travel to the world of Aelion from deep space and proceed...
Battle Bards Episode 130: Oddballs 2
While every Battle Bards episode is a cavalcade of strangeness, this week the team is ratcheting it up with the return of “Oddball” MMORPG...
Skyforge launches into open beta in Japan on October 11
If there's one thing Japanese people like, it's science fantasy action RPGs. (If there are two things, the other one is not having kids.)...
Global Chat: Does Guild Wars 2’s newest episode reach for the stars?
Guild Wars 2's newest living world episode seems to be grabbing the MMO community's attention in a way that the season so far hasn't....
The Daily Grind: What MMO plans do you have for the fall?
With the snap of fall and change of the leaves, the season has taken a change as we go into the last four months...
Perfect Ten: Failed MMOs that could have succeeded with more love
Hindsight is 20/20. Unless you're blind in one eye from nostalgia, in which case hindsight is 0/20. In any case, you understand that it's...
The Stream Team: A first look at Boundless
If it's a sandbox and has voxels, you better believe Massively OP's MJ wants to check it out! That's what she's jumping into Boundless....
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.
Skyforge opens up a demon invasion right after its last invasion
It's been mentioned before, but it bears repeating that the world of Skyforge (Aelion, if you'd forgotten) is apparently Invasion Central. There's always another...
Perfect Ten: The big book of MMORPG death mechanics
Video games will kill your characters. It's inevitable. I still faintly remember my younger brother's first video game death, when he ran full-tilt into...
NCsoft’s picked a date for WildStar’s sunset: November 28
When NCsoft announced earlier this month that WildStar would be sunsetting, most MMO players were upset, but not surprised, except about one little detail:...
Global Chat: Why level in MMOs if you don’t grow?
Using World of Warcraft's latest expansion as an example, many bloggers recently pontificated on the uselessness of adding new levels to MMORPGs if your...
One Shots: The Sunset Club
WildStar is about to be inducted into the worst club there is in the gaming world -- the club whose only requirements is that...
Massively Overthinking: Which MMORPG, living or dead, offers the all-time best crafting experience?
Over the last couple of weeks, when I was putting in sometimes 18-hour days working on the site, I didn't really have much time...
WildStar is probably not sunsetting until at least the end of the year
When NCsoft announced it was closing Carbine and sunsetting WildStar, it didn't include one key detail: when that sunset will occur. In fact, it...
Perfect Ten: My favorite WildStar memories
As I grow older, I start to worry about the loss of memories that are precious to me. I already joke that I'm pretty...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 187: The raid in our stars
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2's new living world episode, Boundless, EverQuest II, Blizzard, Warframe, EVE Online, SWTOR, the petition to save WildStar, and our big site revamp.
One Shots: Gung-ho Gandalf
It's one thing to get a stern talking-to, even when you deserve it. It's another thing when that lecture comes from a gruff angel-wizard...
Vague Patch Notes: WildStar deserves its shutdown, even though we loved it
Last week, when we heard that WildStar was being shut down, I penned a truthful, heartfelt eulogy for the game as it could've been....
The Daily Grind: Do you still log in to play MMOs that are scheduled to sunset?
Last night, I saw a tweet go out from the WildStar account that made me super sad. "It’s show time!" Carbine said. "Sara Conavius...
