American studio known primarily for Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons and Dragons Online.
standing stone games
The MOP Up: Among Us adds three new playable roles
Highly sus game Among Us added three new roles with its latest update: Tracker (keep tabs on Crewmates via the minimap), Noisemaker (make noise...
One Shots: Did someone call for a bird delivery?
Face it: There are a lot of bird delivery services in the world today. Not an hour goes by that your doorbell isn't ringing...
LOTRO Legendarium: LOTRO announces its next legendary servers, Angmar and Mordor
Believe it or not, the last time that Lord of the Rings Online brought out fresh legendary servers, it was the pair of Treebeard...
LOTRO Legendarium: Am I excited at all for Amazon’s Lord of the Rings MMO?
With all of the recent hullabaloo around New World, I've noticed several mentions of what this may portend for Amazon's Lord of the Rings...
One Shots: When the cuteness dug too deep
In this past week's adventures, Utakata claimed to have plumbed the great depths and mysteries of Khazad-dûm... with a mouse-person. I don't remember that...
LOTRO Legendarium: What will happen when Lord of the Rings Online dies?
You know that old hypothetical of "Would you want to know when you die or would you rather be ignorant of it?" A slightly...
The Stream Team: Searching for info on the needle of Hyrsam in DDO
As soon as Massively OP's MJ discovered that the troublemaker Hyrsam hid his immortality in a needle in Dungeons & Dragons Online, she knew...
Dungeons and Dragons Online’s Myth Drannor expansion is coming next month
Clearly, Summer 2024's theme is "Let's see how much MMO stuff we can pack into three months!" Joining this effort is Dungeons and Dragons...
Gamigo reopens transfer window for RIFT players on closed servers
Remember back in spring when Gamigo announced it would be merging down the RIFT servers into four remaining shards? There followed a period in...
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...