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The Stream Team: Taking on Warframe 1999’s tank
While her heart was ready, her hands were not: Massively OP's MJ discovered that battling the boss tank in Warframe 1999 while simultaneously battling...
The MOP Up: Guild Wars 2’s community shows off amazing player housing creations
It's no surprise that Guild Wars 2 players are thrilled to be interior decorators, thanks to this year's player housing system. And in a...
Star Wars: The Old Republic touts 2024’s modernization efforts, updates, and Mac beta
Compared to some of the cadence of the big dogs in the MMO genre, Star Wars: The Old Republic might not be producing the...
The Stream Team: On the 13th anniversary, SWTOR gave to me…
...A stream full of Life Day memories! And Wookiee hugs. And tossing snowballs at overheated droids. Today marks 13 years of SWTOR, and Massively...
Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends has kicked off the Wookiee Life Day festival
If there's one event that Star Wars Galaxies always did in the most ridiculous way imaginable, it's... OK, actually, it's the Ewok Festival of...
Elite Dangerous begins its holiday event and talks space colonization as the Thargoid War ends
There is a whole lot of curiosity about Elite: Dangerous' upcoming colonization feature (as one might expect), which means that Frontier Developments had plenty...
Star Citizen alpha 4.0 releases as a ‘preview’ version that runs parallel to the ongoing alpha 3.24.3
CIG promised over and over that Star Citizen would get its alpha 4.0 release before the end of this year, and technically speaking, it...
PlanetSide 2 previews its upcoming Assault gameplay mode, arriving in 2025
The new Assault mode for Planetside 2 is going to require different playstyles for both attackers and defenders, according to the developers' final missive...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2025
This might just be my favorite roundtable of the year: It's time to lay down our predictions for the MMORPG genre for 2025. And...
Vague Patch Notes: MMORPG accelerationism is a stupid sucker’s game
The most recent Warframe update starts with a solid chunk of story, and the story that it tells is that of a time loop....
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2024
So here's the disclaimer I put in front of this column every year when I do it (we alternate them): The biggest surprises list...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 498: Pantheon’s power play
Justin, Bree, and Chris discuss Pantheon's early access, Ship of Heroes' launch window, Warframe 1999's release, World of Warcraft's Siren Isle, Elder Scrolls Online's outage and union, and Old School RuneScape's sailing, with adventures in WoW Classic, SWTOR, LOTRO, Palworld, Dauntless, Guild Wars 2, and Farm Together 2, plus mailbag topics on midcore MMO players and abilities we wish were in every MMORPG.
Star Wars Galaxies Restoration’s new playable species, combat tree revamp, and Life Day are live
When Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Restoration announced a major customization and combat tree overhaul earlier this month, we didn't imagine it was...
Elite Dangerous celebrates devs and players in its 10th anniversary retrospective video
This week in 2014, Elite: Dangerous officially released on PC, and despite its ups and downs, the game is closing out 2024 in an...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG launched the best event of 2024?
I'm well aware that this is going to be a hard Daily Grind to answer because it used to be an award, and it...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offers the best character customization as of 2024?
Star Citizen has an unfortunately bad reputation... well, kind of everywhere, including among its own dearest fans, but today I want to call out...
The MOP Up: New World pulls back the curtains on its holiday event
New World's devs shared the inspiration behind the hodge-podge holiday event in the game, saying, "Our Audio and Narrative Teams took inspiration from various...
One Shots: Fully furnished and in need of a yard sale
Hey look, everyone, it's RimaHadley! Welcome back to the big leagues, AKA "that goofy Sunday column where we get to stream our games, one...
The Stream Team: The debut of Warframe 1999
Although she's a bit disappointed it didn't drop on the ultimate perfect day (the 31st), now that Warframe 1999 is live, Massively OP's MJ...
Warframe 1999 is officially live with new romance and story content
The previews for Warframe's newest update have focused on the fact that the update sees players team up with six individuals fighting against a...