American studio known primarily for Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online.
standing stone games
LOTRO’s insane player Olympics return next week
What do you get when you take a bunch of stubborn and foolhearty Dwarves, get them tanked on ale, and then start boasting about...
The Game Archaeologist: Climax’s Warhammer Online
Let's begin with a little personal history. Back in 2008, I decided to get into the blogging scene by jumping on board the latest...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite pop culture reference in an MMO?
I will never be completely sure of it, but I like to think that the "Deep-Toads" of Lord of the Rings Online's Moria are...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMOs of 2017’s PAX West
PAX West 2017 has come and gone, and though MJ is still feverishly working on her last few articles, we wanted to pause a...
One of the last Asheron’s Call emulators vanished last night
When Asheron's Call shut down last winter following the spinoff of Standing Stone Games from Turbine, one of the few hopes the community had...
Global Chat: Overwatch’s stalled story
With all of the attention, fandom, e-sports, and development given to Blizzard's Overwatch, have you ever suspected that the team shooter has a critical...
Lord of the Rings Online releases a new Mordor trailer, this one on Dulgabeth
Remember when Lord of the Rings Online launched the Mordor expansion and rolled out a 480p trailer that made everyone recoil in horror? A...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that changed their names
Names and titles fascinate me. While sometimes they have no deeper meaning than to sound pleasant and be memorable, a label can indicate purpose,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 134: You are my… Destiny
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, DDO, Guild Wars 2, Wander, ARK, Funcom, Destiny 2, Cloud Pirates, Perpetuum, EVE Lifeblood, Villagers & Heroes, and helping out with Harvey, with mailbag questions on favorite MMO moments and finding a good guild.
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG is the worst at balancing difficulty?
Justin's LOTRO Legendarium article on whether or not Mordor is too difficult struck a chord wth me. "I do not envy devs and their...
Game of Thrones: Conquest is what Turbine does now
So... Turbine. You remember Turbine, right? Used to run some games before the company spun off the MMOs to Standing Stone Games and shuttered...
LOTRO Legendarium: Is Mordor too difficult?
If there's one topic of discussion that I've been hearing a lot in world chat, on the forums, and among my kinship, it's about...
Global Chat: Has No Man’s Sky finally arrived as a full-featured game?
It's been a year since the disastrous and controversial launch of No Man's Sky, a game with failings that included, among many others, a...
Battle Bards Episode 104: Something wicked this way comes
And lo, as the Battle Bards walk through the zone of the shadow of death, they will fear no evil, but they will listen to evil’s...
The LOTRO team dishes on Mordor and PvMP
Hungry for more information about Lord of the Rings Online and its recent Mordor expansion? YouTuber Stefalla interviewed Standing Stone Games CM Jerry Snook...
One Shots: Alien sunset
I will admit that I've been craving a good space exploration sim lately -- the burn to "explore strange new worlds" is rising inside...
Dungeons and Dragons Online confirms that Ravenloft expansion is still on for this year
It has been a good long time since we have heard anything about Dungeons and Dragons Online's promised Ravenloft expansion. While we still don't...
LOTRO caps off summer with the Farmer’s Faire
Hot on the heels of the recently ended Summer Festival, Lord of the Rings Online ushered in this year's Farmer's Faire to end August...
Perfect Ten: MMO experiments in transmedia synergy
We're not going to argue that MMORPGs are the dominant form of media entertainment these days, but they do have endurance and a devoted...
The Daily Grind: What’s your comfort MMO?
In all of the years that I've been playing MMORPGs, I've noticed that it is far, far easier to return to a known property...
