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The Stream Team: Celebrating a SWTOR Christmas with snowballs

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You might think that all there is to Christmas, er Life Day, in SWTOR is slinging snowballs at droids. Not that that isn't fun,...

MassivelyOP’s 2020 Golden Yachties: Best MMO post that is actually just song lyrics

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MassivelyOP’s not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for best MMO post that is actually just song lyrics. (If you’re wondering what the...

Warframe studio Digital Extremes promises independent operation and no changes to game direction after Leyou buyout

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2020 was the year in which MMO studios were Pac-Man'd by bigger companies because massive corporations with deep purses do that to break their...

End-of-Year Eleven: The best MMO updates and expansions of 2020

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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...
Venting prevents ex-plo-si-on.

Both sides of EVE Online’s massive World War Bee 2 have agreed to a Christmas truce

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Mark the date of Monday, December 21st, 2020 in your calendar if you're the sort of person following EVE Online history as Internet Spaceship...

Star Citizen reschedules its Assault on Stanton server event to next year

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Earlier in the week there was word from CIG that Star Citizen was ready to give its new alpha 3.12 dynamic event system a...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 302: Your MMO mail, our MMO opinions

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Justin and Bree tackle an all-mailbag show, with topics including gaming music and writing mainstream awards, MMO exploration, crafting and EVE Online, vanilla Guild Wars 2, the "one MMO" gamer, MMOs that make you want to play other MMOs, WoW transmog, Raph Koster's brain, and Shadowbane.

Choose My Adventure: All the MMOs you made us play in 2020

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It'd be spectacularly easy -- routine, even -- to look back at the year gone with derision, bitterness, and all sorts of acrid snark,...

Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: MMO Studio of the Year

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MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for MMO Studio of the Year, which was awarded to Grinding Gear Games last...
Cool guys don't look at explosions.

Defiance yanks away server compensation ‘due to abuse’

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Be warned: The Grinch has been spotted skulking around Defiance this week. Just days after Gamigo announced that it would be handing out compensation packages...

Not So Massively: Looking back at 2020 and ahead to 2021 in the realm of not-so-massively games

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So another year comes, and the last one's gone, and we dig deep just to carry on. Musical allusions notwithstanding, I thought it might...

Star Citizen is set to begin its first server-wide dynamic event this week

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Star Citizen's recently released alpha 3.12 is subtitled Assault on Stanton, but most of the immediately playable features involved things like refinery decks and...

Star Wars: The Old Republic celebrates Life Day with snowball throwing and Wookiee hugging

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What could possibly be more Star Wars-y than hugging a Wookiee for the holidays? That's a rhetorical question, obviously, and it's just one of...
Whee or something.

Battle Bards Episode 183: Theme parks

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This episode is your ticket to the greatest amusement park experience known to gamers! With cotton candy and ride tickets in hand, the Battle...

Into the Super-verse: A heroic year of superhero MMO development

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As we get ready to tuck 2020 into the annals of history and venture into the wilds of 2021, it's a good time for...

Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Player Housing

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MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Player Housing, which was awarded to The Elder Scrolls Online last...

One Shots: Memories in crystal

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We don't just take screenshots of MMOs to impress each other but to cement memories that would otherwise fade away to the ravages of...

Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Worst MMO Business Model

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MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Worst MMO Business Model, which was awarded jointly to Star Citizen and Fallout...

The Daily Grind: Are you playing the same MMO at the end of 2020 that you were in January?

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I always find it interesting to look back over the gaming journey that I took during the year. If I rewind the calendar all...

Asheron’s Call 2 died 17 years ago, then came back, then died again, and here we are

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On December 30th, 2005, Asheron's Call 2 was shut down - the first time. That was 15 years ago. And then, without warning, seven...

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