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EVE Online opens pre-orders for its 20th anniversary collector’s edition
If you're not a regular player of EVE Online, then your first reaction to seeing one of the goodies in the game's 20th anniversary...
One Shots: The hero of your story
No matter how legendarily humble you are, it's hard to escape games trying to make you the central hero. When a cutscene literally shines...
MMO Business Roundup: Unity clings to AI, Apple appeals again, Embracer restructures
Business doesn't take a break, and so neither must we. Except for holiday breaks. But then those also can get busy because studios sometimes...
The Stream Team: Exploring Voss’ Old Wounds in SWTOR
It certainly doesn't happen often, but SWTOR has more story! Of course, Massively OP's Larry and MJ need to see it. The plot...
Destiny 2 applies mid-season balance adjustments for weapons and kicks off the Bungie Day charity drive
We are officially at the mid-season point of Destiny 2, and that means it's time for Bungie to mess with the shooter's guns and...
Hyperspace Beacon: Why SWTOR’s move to Broadsword has brought me back to the game
Star Wars: The Old Republic is a special game to me. Like many of you, I've poured hundreds of hours into BioWare's expansive MMO...
Star Citizen player gets a partial refund from CIG in spite of the studio’s legal arguments to the contrary
Getting a refund out of Star Citizen can often seem like pulling teeth, yet one player who goes by the name of BlueBackground is...
Massively Overthinking: The MMOs we wanted a decade ago
Back in May, MOP's Justin penned a fun blog piece on his Bio Break blog about the games he wanted all the way back...
WildStar’s former design director calls out studio politics for his pre-launch resignation
Well here's a little bit of a walk down memory lane - and a bright light shined on a dark period in MMO history:...
Perfect Ten: Why SWTOR is still a lot of fun to play today
In a time of great uncertainty and some short-term chaos as Star Wars: The Old Republic moves from BioWare to Broadsword, one might assume...
Massively Uplifting: Spring and summer philanthropy and farewells in MMOs
'Tis the season! What season? Why, spring and summer! Spring is a time of growth, and our gaming-verse certainly saw growth of the generous...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 428: Guild Wars 2 spills its secrets
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2 Secrets of the Obscure, WoW Classic hardcore mode, Tarisland, and The Sims 5 multiplayer, with adventures in LOTRO, Diablo IV, SWTOR, and truck sims, plus a mailbag topic on starting out in LOTRO.
Destiny 2 owns up to current stability problems and outlines a multi-month process for correcting them
For many players of Destiny 2, the Year of Lightfall has felt more like the Year of Disconnect Errors, with the game's stability feeling...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever joined a volunteer guide program in an MMORPG?
The recent Anarchy Online debacle, whereby Funcom dumped its long-running Advisors of Rubi-Ka volunteer program with very little notice, really irked me, even as...
The MOP Up: Destiny 2 will compensate fan whose art was misappropriated for a cutscene
Bungie has major egg on its face after a recent Destiny 2 cutscene was found to have copied fan art from a couple of...
Star Wars The Old Republic shares its July event calendar and releases a bug fixing patch
What's happening in July in Star Wars: The Old Republic? Bounties! Nightlife! Swoop races! Pirates! That's the very basic rundown of events that has...
Battle Bards Episode 226: Echoes of MMOs that never were
It’s always highly bittersweet when MMO fans sit back and consider the games that never were — the projects that got far along in...
Star Citizen shows off alpha 3.20’s replacement for Port Olisar as first waves of CitizenCon ticket sales go live
Star Citizen's alpha 3.20 release is going to ask backers to wave goodbye to Port Olisar, the MMO game's first space station, as it...
Warframe talks up July’s Echoes of Duviri patch and TennoCon 2023 reveals
With two months to go before TennoCon 2023 arrives, Digital Extremes has shifted into high gear to make this a Warframe summer to remember....
The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers the best ‘shopping’ experience?
We're talking about in-game shopping, mind you, not photoshop or cash-shop or workshops or whatever.
I've joked before - not entirely facetiously - that one...
