American studio known primarily for Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online.
standing stone games
LOTRO explains the Brawler’s mechanics as chicken hockey returns
When it comes to the Brawler, there's only one solution needed for all of life's problems, and that's to strike them as hard as...
Lord of the Rings Online dazzles you with the Brawler’s sweet moves
Hey kids, did you hear that Lord of the Rings Online is getting a brand-new class this fall? We jest, of course, because Standing...
Choose My Adventure: It’s bear time in Lord of the Rings Online
It has been a few years since I made my way back to Lord of the Rings Online. I remember being around the game...
Battle Bards Episode 201: Don’t stand in the fire!
Have you stood in the fire? Did you start the fire? Are you on fire at this very moment? Then stop, drop, and roll...
One Shots: Looking down on the world
Do you ever get that feeling like someone else is looking down on you, but then you're like, nah, that's all in my head?...
LOTRO Legendarium: Fate of Gundabad is shaping up to be the full expansion that LOTRO needs
Right before all of the news this week got sucked into the gravity well of the launch of a certain MMO, Lord of the...
Lord of the Rings Online explains legendary item revamp and conversion method
Does it seem fair that your average Lord of the Rings Online goblin, who can barely afford a rusty tin axe on his weekly...
Lord of the Rings Online opens Bullroarer again to test Brawler and LI changes
So, Lord of the Rings Online's Fate of Gundabad has a launch date. It has preorders. It has a full executive summary of content....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 340: New World cometh
Justin and Bree discuss New World's launch, Diablo II Resurrected, LOTRO's Gundabad, Warhammer Online's Return of Reckoning, Book of Travels, and Ultima Online, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online and Guild Wars 2, plus mailbag topics on New World's infrastructure and LOTRO's closed servers.
Choose My Adventure: DC Universe Online just ended up making me love City of Heroes more
Third verse same as the first. If nothing else, DC Universe Online is consistent in how its leveling game works, though there were a...
Lord of the Rings Online’s Fate of Gundabad launches November 10 – preorders have begun
Standing Stone Games has finally taken the wraps off the Fate of Gundabad expansion for Lord of the Rings Online in today's big preorder...
Lord of the Rings Online gets you up to speed on Fate of Gundabad’s story
It wasn't that long ago that some columnist here at Massively OP was bemoaning the fact that Standing Stone Games had yet to actually...
Massively Overthinking: Would you play your favorite MMO without its IP?
Nonameplease recently posed us an interesting topic, inspired by a thread on the Star Trek Online subreddit. "It seems most people don't think the...
LOTRO is once again giving away 26 quest packs and selling eight more for cheap
With Gundabad fast approaching this fall, Standing Stone Games is rolling out the red carpet for Lord of the Rings Online players who might...
Dungeons and Dragons Online to revamp epic destinies ‘from the ground up’
You know that when an MMO developer tells you to "buckle up" before explaining changes coming in a patch, we're in for a wild...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 339: Kitchen sinks and the Tao of MMOs
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Funcom, Mortal Online 2, WoW Classic, EverQuest II, Star Trek Online, and Final Fantasy XIV, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online and SWG Legends, plus mailbag topics on the direction of Guild Wars 2 and WoW and what's going on with LOTRO's dead servers.
Global Chat: New World beta pleases some, fails to grab others
The buzz around MMO Town these days is on New World, and specifically, the open beta that wrapped up last week. So far, the...
One Shots: Boom, said the world
You'd think that a world that's already been nuked into a radioactive wasteland wouldn't need any additional bombs lobbed at its surface, but several...
LOTRO Legendarium: Why do we know so little about Fate of Gundabad?
Over the past few months, my general sense of rising hope for Lord of the Rings Online has been tempered by a nagging disquiet...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs have you played most excessively?
I saw a fun thread on Reddit a while back I thought would be fun to pitch to our community too. The question asked...
