American studio known primarily for Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online.
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Lord of the Rings Online continues to iterate on its class change patch, extends spring festival
The third build of Lord of the Rings Online's Update 22.2 is now up on the test server, and players can preview it to...
Perfect Ten: The unique pitfalls of licensed MMOs
Making a list of the "biggest" MMOs currently running is always an exercise in frustration. It's easy to put a few things on the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 171: Bless you, my subscriber
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, Bless Online, Elder Scrolls Online Summerset, Worlds Adrift, Pantheon, Skull & Bones, and The Division 2, with mailbag questions on the Eastern MMO stigma and Sea of Thieves' new MMO paradigm.
LOTRO’s Spring Festival has returned for an encore through Memorial Day
Spring may not have left yet, but The Lord of the Rings Online's seasonal festival already had. But now it's back! This is great...
Lord of the Rings Online’s 2018 roadmap includes a huge northern expansion and seasonal instances
Don't call it a full-fledged expansion, but Lord of the Rings Online's next content update may be nearing that level of content and focus.
Standing...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 170: Mild West Online
Justin and Bree discuss Conan Exiles, Wild West Online, LOTRO, NCsoft's financials, Gamersfirst's acquisition, H1Z1, the Guild Wars franchise, WoW, DDO, and Trove, with mailbag topics on offensive in-game titles and too-fast MMO combat.
Global Chat: The MMO expansion lifecycle
With the ever-developing, ever-growing nature of MMORPGs, the expansion truly has a life of its own. By now we are well acquainted with the...
LOTRO Legendarium: A whirlwind of activity in Lord of the Rings Online
If you haven't noticed already, an extended silence from me in this column space usually means that I've taken a break from Lord of...
Lord of the Rings Online puts a fresh coat of paint on old zones
The return of a former Lord of the Rings Online developer has put into motion a gradual revamp of one of the game's older...
Neverwinter gets bitten by Ravenloft’s gothic horror
Dungeons and Dragons Online isn't the only MMO that's vacationing in the moonlit lands of Barovia. Cryptic announced this week that it is bringing...
Lord of the Rings Online starts testing massive class changes
It's finally here. For a while now, Standing Stone Games has promised that it would be giving most of Lord of the Rings Online's...
Middle-earth is coming back to Google maps thanks to fan and LOTRO screens
Who hasn't used Google maps to check out some interesting patch of Earth? Now who hasn't wished they could do the same for Middle-earth?...
Perfect Ten: You got your MMORPG in my tabletop RPG
Tabletop games and MMORPGs seem like they would go well together, but remarkably they often don't. That's true for several reasons, but one of...
Daybreak update: Renova boss questioned over Columbus Nova’s alleged payment to Michael Cohen
MMOs and politics once again collide this week as last night CNN broke the news that Robert Mueller's FBI team has zeroed in on...
Global Chat: MMOs need to do ‘difficulty’ right
A thinkpiece that we had back in April about the difficulty levels (or lack thereof) in MMORPGs sparked some interesting discussion among gaming bloggers...
Lord of the Rings Online wants to know what you want from your VIP sub
Never say the devs aren't listening: Standing Stone Games apparently is.
Lord of the Rings Online forumgoers learned this lesson today when in a player-started...
One Shots: All giant spiders, all the time
Sometimes I am just so proud of our One Shots crowd here at Massively OP. I keep coming up with ludicrous screenshot challenges and...
Battle Bards Episode 120: Short stuff
Look down — and it’ll be the last thing you’ll ever see! That’s because fury and death arrive in the form of short character...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 168: MMOs all higgledy-piggledy
Justin and Bree discuss Wild West Online, EVE Online, WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Ragnarok, Elite, LOTRO, Star Trek Online, Trove, and City of Heroes' Paragon Chat, with mailbag questions on free-to-play entitlement and whether expansions need new classes.
Jukebox Heroes: LOTRO’s Northern Mirkwood soundtrack
One of the most pleasant surprises I experienced in a while came a week or so ago when Standing Stone Games announced that it...
