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Star Wars Galaxies Legends teases pilot and player city updates, counts almost 20K new player houses in 2022
It's been a relatively quiet summer for the Star Wars Galaxies rogue servers, but that's only because devs are heads-down working on fall updates....
EverQuest II’s Oceansfull Festival returns with a new dungeon as the Summer Jubilee nears its end
The summer season of EverQuest II is almost over as the Summer Jubilee that started with Tinkerfest in June is now ending with the...
The Stream Team: Backseat Streaming’s exposé on SWG crafting and decoration
In an era of armchair warriors, we bring you Backseat Streamers! Here, Massively OP’s Chris and MJ get to take a backseat and watch...
EverQuest II’s Myths and Monoliths is live with the Fabled Veeshan’s Peak raid
The Myths and Monoliths patch has finally arrived to EverQuest II's live servers as of yesterday afternoon, bringing with it the fabled versions of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 384: The World of Warcraft we’ll never see
Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard's financials, the canceled WoW mobile MMO, LOTRO remastered, the Riot MMO, and Legends of Aria's monetization, with adventures in RIFT, LOTRO, City of Heroes, and Fallout 76, plus a voicemail wishing for an MMO amnesia button.
The MOP Up: Prosperous Universe gives more tools for cutthroat capitalism
With ship enhancements, private pacts, and early contract termination, Prosperous Universe just got a lot more interesting thanks to its Convergence update.
"You have been...
Global Chat: Is Phantasy Star Online 2 a shallow MMO?
In a recent post on trying out Phantasy Star Online 2: New Genesis, blogger Virtual Bastion made the observation that the MMO offered "slick...
One Shots: I’m lost in her eyes, send help
Today we need to issue a serious warning about our first One Shots: Those who scroll to the full color image may find themselves...
DC Universe Online makes targeted adjustments to several specific artifacts in latest patch
Today has seen a new patch to DC Universe Online that is primarily all about adjusting some of the game's artifacts, so if your...
Massively Uplifting: WoW players break barriers, Bungie and ZeniMax raise money to help children
Summer sweetness is not just for corn and watermelon! No, it's for all the kind and generous gestures of of our fellow gamers and...
Activision-Blizzard Q2 2022: More revenue dips for WoW, ABK, and Blizzard in spite of Diablo Immortal
Welcome back to our regular coverage of Activision-Blizzard's quarterly financials. As of this afternoon, we have Q2's results, comprising April, May, and June 2022; let's...
The Game Archaeologist: That time when EverQuest let you play as the monsters
It's a near-given that in every MMORPG, players assume the roles of heroes who are sent out to vanquish the evil, dark, or at...
Massively Overthinking: Is old-school MMO dungeon-camping ever coming back?
A while ago on the MOP Podcast, Justin and I randomly wound up on the topic of camping in MMOs - not pitching a...
PlanetSide 2’s latest PC hotfix addresses particle effect framerate drops and client crashes
If you're a PC player of PlanetSide 2 who has been experiencing some performance problems with the online shooter recently, there's some potential good...
EverQuest II opens up Myths and Monoliths update on the test server for players
Remember when it felt like every single tabletop roleplaying game had a name with an ampersand? You had Dungeons & Dragons, but also Chivalry...
Fan site compiles a list of every MMORPG rogue server and emulator still running
Not every emulator project is as popular or as well known as Star Wars Galaxies Legends or City of Heroes Homecoming. To help bring...
Vanguard Saga of Heroes’ community-run emulator had over 100 players this past weekend
We recently ran a column on abrupt MMO sunsets, one of which was Vanguard: Saga of Heroes, which SOE binned in 2014 shortly after...
EverQuest completes server merge, plans beta for 29th expansion in October
Hot on the heels of EverQuest II's producer letter, Darkpaw Head of Studio Jenn Chan is back with one for EverQuest II's elder sibling....
DC Universe Online unleashes the Bat God Barbatos as an open world boss
Players of DC Universe Online are probably familiar with fighting against Barbatos, but those battles were in instances. The Bat God has now come...
Working As Intended: MMOs that wish they were Star Wars Galaxies
"My friends and I would skin someone alive for an SWG 2," an old Star Wars Galaxies player recently wrote on Reddit, and that...
