American studio known primarily for Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online.
standing stone games
Dungeons and Dragons Online releases Update 57 Grip of the Hidden Hand today – here are the patch notes
Today marks a new content update for Dungeons and Dragons Online with the arrival of Update 57: Grip of the Hidden Hand, bringing a...
LOTRO Legendarium: What class should you pick in LOTRO?
Hunter.
Thanks for coming to the column! See you in the next one!
What, you want a bit more than that? Sheesh, fine. I'll stop amusing...
SSG has delayed Lord of the Rings Online’s Before the Shadow to November 15
Well, it's not exactly an impossible-to-fathom move given that it's baked into preorder verbiage, but it's going to be irritating nonetheless: Standing Stone Games...
Perfect Ten: 10 great reasons to revisit older MMORPGs
When one MMO dies, it forces us to look at the rest of the bunch through the sunglasses of mortality. The finite nature of...
One Shots: Hamming it up for Halloween
It's that time of year again! That's right, it's National Cat Day (October 29th)! So find the nearest cat, bow deeply to it, and...
The Stream Team: Wandering Wistmead and other Halloween fun in Lord of the Rings Online
It just isn't the Halloween season for Massively OP's MJ until her Hobbit takes a jaunt through the Haunted Burrow in LOTRO. Along with...
The Stream Team: The Snitch and the Lich in Dungeons & Dragons Online’s Night Revels
It's time once again for some Halloween fun in DDO! The Night Revels has returned, and Massively OP's MJ is ready to collect chocolates...
Massively Overthinking: Do you have a love/hate relationship with specific MMO content?
This week's Massively Overthinking is inspired by one of Justin's Daily Grinds, ironically. It was the one about the best online card game you've...
LOTRO continues Before the Shadows testing while DDO answers community questions
The latest build for Lord of the Rings Online's Update 34 -- better known as Before the Shadow -- is up on the Bullroarer...
Dungeons and Dragons Online previews Update 57, ends sixth hardcore season
Think you've seen and mastered every quest in Dungeons and Dragons Online? That will no longer be the case when Update 57: Grip of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 394: To pre-patch or not to pre-patch
Justin and Bree discuss New World's Brimstone Sands, World of Warcraft's Dragonflight prepatch, LOTRO's inbound QOL improvements, City of Heroes Homecoming's big balance patch, and FFXIV's 6.25, with adventures in LOTRO, WoW, and CoH, plus a mailbag topic on useless inventory clutter in MMOs.
Lord of the Rings Online promotes Before the Shadow’s delvings and new soundtrack
With Lord of the Rings Online's Before the Shadow update right around the corner, there are a whole lot of things to be excited...
LOTRO Legendarium: 10 reasons to get psyched about Before the Shadow (that aren’t the new zones)
Standing Stone Games went and pulled a classic case of misdirection on all of us -- and I'm not complaining. While the studio had...
Lord of the Rings Online’s Before the Shadow begins public testing – with a few surprise features
Testing is now underway for Lord of the Rings Online's major fall release, as Standing Stone Games announced that it's put Update 34: Before...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO haunted houses to explore – if you dare….
Happy Halloween! Or if you prefer, Happy Scare-Related Holidays featuring the Stylings of Ed Casbar and His Electric Teeth. It'd be the best of...
Lord of the Rings Online highlights Before the Shadow’s Cardolan region lore and landscape
Lord of the Rings Online is once again following up on its earlier tour of the Cardolan region with a separate post that offers...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 393: Saga of the Chronicles of the Ember Shards of Aria
Justin and Bree discuss Halloween in MMOs, Embers Adrift's launch, Star Citizen, World of Warcraft, Star Trek Online, Chronicles of Elyria, and Legends of Aria, with adventures in LOTRO and SWG Legends.
Global Chat: Landing boots on WoW Classic’s Wrath shores
With WoW Classic's Wrath expansion officially out, plenty of veterans of the Northrend Wars of '08 returned for another tour of duty. Among these...
Lord of the Rings Online’s latest stream delves into Before the Shadow’s story
If Lord of the Rings Online has been demure about some of its past content releases, no one will be able to lob that...
LOTRO Legendarium: Four options for character leveling in LOTRO
One of the unsung benefits of maturing MMORPGs is that they generally offer far more options for leveling and adventuring than what was present...
