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Every once in a while, it's a lot of fun to sit down and rank things in your favorite geeky franchises. A while back,...

Last spring, when the pandemic was ramping up here in the US and states were closing down everything in a panic, MMO studios around...

Tipa over at Chasing Dings recently posed an intriguing question to her friends and readers: Does crafting have any place in the modern MMO?...

Dungeons and Dragons Online's newest race is going through the paces on the test server right now, which means that before long, players will...

Are Lord of the Rings Online's servers getting better? From anecdotal evidence, it appears so, although the recent instability hasn't completely vanished from the...

Being a kid is never easy, but it's downright life-threatening in DDO's Ravenloft. From scattered journal entries to a death house, Massively OP's MJ...

Justin and Bree discuss En Masse's closure, Amazon's Lost Ark, LOTRO, WoW Classic, Wurm Online, Population Zero, and Torchlight III, with adventures in SWTOR, WoW, SWG Legends, and The Sims, plus reader mail on MMO customer service and MMO talent trees.

If you logged into Lord of the Rings Online this week hoping for an easy road to Mordor, think again. There are a whole...

I realize this question doesn't apply to all MMOs: Some MMOs don't have quests at all, while in others, there's no way you're leveling...

A second period of server instability in the past month is plaguing Lord of the Rings Online, even as Standing Stone Games said that...

Massively OP's MJ is celebrating her first stream in her new house by exploring DDO's Death House, purely by coincidence! She certainly didn't move...

I know we joke that Massively OP is not an uptime monitor, but when it comes to Lord of the Rings Online, we have...

Probably a lot of us aren't getting that fantastic summer beach vacation that we had hoped to get this year. But instead of getting...

With the addition of the Midsummer Festival a little while back, Lord of the Rings Online's summer season got more than a little full...

Justin and Bree discuss Final Fantasy XIV 5.3, City of Heroes Homecoming, Daybreak buying Cold Iron, WoW Shadowlands' prepatch, EVE Echoes' launch, Epic's lawsuit, and the passing of Meridian 59's Brian Grene, with adventures in Valiance Online, LOTRO, and The Sims 4, plus a mailbag topic on industry stress for devs.

Now that Crowfall's beta is on the scene, plenty of curious gamers are streaming in to see what ArtCraft's ambitious PvP title has to...

A while back, I finally talked my husband into buying his Elf Warden a basic Hobbit house in Lord of the Rings Online. He...

I'm sure those few people out there still bearing a grudge over the Rune-keeper would disagree with me, but one of the things that...

Let's talk about rested experience in online games this morning. MMOs call them all sorts of things, but World of Warcraft's has stuck the...

Last week, Dungeons and Dragons Online players were dismayed to learn that they hadn't quite escaped all the horrors of the LOTRO downtime last...