standing stone games

American studio known primarily for Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online.

Choose My Adventure: How Dungeons and Dragons Online became my new favorite MMO

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Week after week in this round of Choose My Adventure, I've been finding little things to love about Dungeons and Dragons Online and this...

Global Chat: Your complete LOTRO wedding guide

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Is your mind whirling with all of the things to do with Lord of the Rings Online's new Midsummer Festival and the associated wedding...

LOTRO Legendarium: What we have here is a failure to communicate

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If this year has taught us anything, it's that clear and boosted communication is vital to handling a crisis. Having information and a message...

Lord of the Rings Online returned to service last night, with fresh outages and lag

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We return to the ongoing Lord of the Rings Online saga this morning, as Standing Stone Games' MMOs have entered their 10th day of...

LOTRO and DDO say they’re ‘making progress’ on the nine-day server crisis, but the community isn’t having it

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The server crisis that has been plaguing both Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online for over a week now may...

The Daily Grind: What were some of the most memorable MMO outages?

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This past week, many Lord of the Rings Online players impatiently nibbled on lembas bread and took to Reddit as several of the North...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 280: Middle-earth practices social distancing

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Justin and Bree discuss Funcom, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Nexon, No Man's Sky, and Skull and Bones, with adventures in LOTRO, Hearthstone, and WoW, plus mailbag topics on fidelity to artistic vision and phasing vs. immersion.

Choose My Adventure: Accidentally going to Hell and other Dungeons and Dragons Online misadventures

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I’m only level 3 and already Dungeons and Dragons Online has elected to whup my ass. By the barest margin, the polls said to pick...

LOTRO has now been suffering downtime and tech issues for an entire week

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It turns out to have been a bad week to start subbing to Lord of the Rings Online. As we've been covering, LOTRO is now...

Lord of the Rings Online goes into its sixth day of server outages

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The server woes that began last Wednesday for Lord of the Rings Online continued all through the weekend, with players on multiple realms left...

LOTRO players postpone Weatherstock due to unstable servers

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If anything, Lord of the Rings Online's server issues worsened as this week progressed. The problems, which initially seemed isolated to a small handful...

Lord of the Rings Online’s servers struggle while Weatherstock returns

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If you've been adventuring -- or trying to, at least -- in Middle-earth this week, you may be quite aware that certain Lord of...

Massively Overthinking: Has the pandemic changed your gaming habits?

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There was a popular Medium piece floating around last week about how some people are finding refuge in gaming during the still-raging COVID-19 pandemic....

The Daily Grind: How grown-up do you like your MMO graphics?

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I may be settling comfortably into middle age, but I'll freely admit that I'm very partial to bright colors and highly stylized designs for...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 279: New World in the new year

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Justin and Bree discuss New World, WoW Shadowlands, Dual Universe, Legends of Aria, Elder Scrolls Online, and Torchlight III, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, and Fallout 76, plus mailbag topics on lazy development and Mists of Pandaria.

Choose My Adventure: Exploring the Caves of Chaos in Dungeons and Dragons Online

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I’ve heard you loud and clear, Dungeons and Dragons Online friends. There were a number of comments on last week’s column espousing the virtues...

One Shots: Forest for the trees

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There's something enchanting and thrillingly dangerous about stepping into a vast forest in an MMORPG. You never know what may be around the next...

LOTRO’s Weatherstock XII concert series is this weekend – here’s how and where to join in

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OK, Lord of the Rings Online fans. If you can pull yourselves away from the biggest MMO wedding ever, then it's about to be...

The Stream Team: The Legend of Two-Toed Tobias in Dungeons & Dragons Online

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What is that ghostly wailing deep in the Weeping Cove in DDO? Massively OP's MJ is about to find out! Legend has it that...

Massively Overthinking: How much should MMOs cost in 2020?

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MOP reader Castagere recently wrote to us with a nod to the growing sentiment across the gaming industry that might indicate a shift in...

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