American studio known primarily for Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online.
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Lord of the Rings Online starts testing Update 41’s new crafting event and PvP improvements
The first beta test for Lord of the Rings Online's summer content update is here, as Update 41 revved up on the Bullroarer server...
LOTRO Legendarium: Is Lord of the Rings Online’s new birding hobby a flight of fancy?
My father-in-law is an obsessive birdwatcher. He took it up as a hobby a few years ago, and now he travels all over the...
One Shots: The portents of the heavens
When you look up at the night sky and everything's going nuts, it's either the end of the world as we know it or...
The Daily Grind: Would you trade places with any of your MMORPG toons?
Most of my MMORPG characters do not live gentle or safe lives. My Lord of the Rings Online hobbit Hunter is constantly being set...
The Stream Team: Hunting for answers at DDO’s Icemount hunting lodge
With Lord Arden awakened in DDO's Fewild, Massively OP's MJ is free to finally search for those missing codex pages. But according to Arden,...
Massively Overthinking: If you lost your account in your main MMORPG, would you start over?
The other day, MOP's Justin came into our work chat understandably nervous because he couldn't log into his Lord of the Rings Online account;...
LOTRO celebrates Christmas in June, outlines major Lore-master changes
Whether you're feeling hot or cold this summer, Lord of the Rings Online has a festival for you. Today the MMO is releasing Update...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 471: A Gold Road to the promised Tarisland
Justin and Bree discuss Tarisland, Elder Scrolls Online's Gold Road, Corepunk's alpha, WoW Classic Cataclysm, SWTOR, and Star Trek Online, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on industry jargon, IGN's buying spree, and Embracer.
The Daily Grind: Ships, mounts, or vehicles – do you have a preferred mount type in MMOs?
MOP's own Chris inspired today's Daily Grind as last week he was drooling all over the newly revealed Elite Dangerous spaceship. "Seeing this new...
LOTRO Legendarium: Exploring Lord of the Rings Online’s enormous new Neaths zone
Do you remember when you were a kid and you got to poke around and explore a cool place? You'd eagerly run around it,...
One Shots: Stargazing for incoming asteroids
Now that you've got the Jurassic Park hymn playing in your head from today's headline picture, you're prepared to romp around with dinos, stick...
LOTRO Legendarium: LOTRO’s Update 41 plans monster play reward track, birding hobby, and coop crafting event
Yesterday's Lord of the Rings Online dev stream was a particularly informative one as SSG's Orion made an appearance to talk about what's coming...
The Stream Team: Wake me up before you go go in DDO
With two of the three reagents needed to counter Lord Arden's sleeping curse in DDO, Massively OP's MJ just has one more thing to...
Lord of the Rings Online to reveal its newest hobby, Birdwatching, this Friday
It's (almost) official: Lord of the Rings Online's second and newest hobby is to be Birdwatching.
SSG's Orion teased the reveal on the forums, saying...
Dungeons and Dragons Online hands out free dragon mounts, grants more time to claim free xpack
It's a double dose of good news from Dungeons and Dragons Online this week. Update 67.3 arrives today with a few tweaks, including the...
Lord of the Rings Online’s ultra-slow progression server finally hits level 100 this week
Almost three years after it first launched, Lord of the Rings Online's Treebeard server is finally hitting the level 100 threshold this week.
The game's...
The Daily Grind: Do you bring any habits from one MMO to the next?
So a few weekends ago, I was doing overworld questing on my Hobbit Hunter in Lord of the Rings Online when I caught myself...
Global Chat: V Rising isn’t the Diablo clone you might expect
In An Age tucked into the bloody meal that is V Rising following the vampiric survival game's launch and found it a mixed bag...
One Shots: Who left the lights on?
As a dad, I am perhaps consumed by a drive to make sure that all of the lights in the house are off when...
The Stream Team: Encountering A Frosty Reception in Dungeons & Dragons Online
If there's one thing Massively OP's MJ has seen a lot of in Dungeons & Dragons Online's Feywild, it's flowers. The entire "road"...
