standing stone games

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

One Shots: Hobbit herbal hobbies

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If Hobbits are seen as being generally lazy creatures that gobble up their weight in food every day, then how come they have such...

LOTRO composer Chance Thomas loses sound company over ponzi scheme

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Many Lord of the Rings Online fans are well acquainted with Chance Thomas. While not the only composer for the MMO, his work on...

LOTRO Legendarium: Taking a fresh look at Lord of the Rings Online’s early zones

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One of the unexpected benefits of jumping onto Lord of the Rings Online new progression servers is that it's giving many of us a...

Leaderboard: How much does an MMO’s IP influence your interest in it?

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Here's a fun thought exercise: What if standard assumptions about IPs and games is wrong? To hear some people tell it, games like Star...
THIS IS NOT FINE! THERE WAS NO REASON TO LET IT GO THIS LONG OR GET THIS BAD!

Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO news stories of 2018

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With the turn of every new year, I know we are entering unexplored territory in the field of MMO news. No matter what we...

Global Chat: Saying farewell to a fellow MMO blogger

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The MMO blogging community is a pretty tight-knit one. Most of us know each other (or of each other) and read each other's blogs...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 198: Manatee… in… spaaace!

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Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard, LOTRO, Fallout 76, Star Citizen, H1Z1, City of Heroes, Elite Dangerous, Legends of Aria, and computer upgrades.

Global Chat: Investigating LOTRO’s progression servers

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The new Lord of the Rings Online progression servers are proving to be of significant interest to MMO players and bloggers alike, with some...

The Daily Grind: Which MMO NPC do you hate with an undying passion?

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Sara Oakheart. Let me tell you about Sara Oakheart. If you haven't ever played Lord of the Rings Online, you wouldn't have a clue,...
Not paying attention is not a mark of honor.

Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2018

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Unlike with Halloween and Christmas, it seems like MMORPG developers never quite know what to do with the Thanksgiving holiday. Vastly fewer games celebrate...
Still crazy after all these years.

The Daily Grind: What great MMO grouping experiences have you had lately?

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One gaming night that I look forward to every week is Friday evening, because I know that then I'll be dropping all other MMO...
Hey, I duped that fair and square!

Massively OP Podcast Episode 197: Crawl out through the fallout

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Eliot, Justin, and Bree discuss FFXIV's Fanfest, Fallout 76, Hellgate, WildStar, plus patches for Black Desert, EVE, Secret World Legends, ArcheAge, TERA, and EverQuest II, with mail on MMO difficulty settings.

LOTRO Legendarium: Starting on a legendary journey

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Part of me was laughing at myself. Here I was, a grown man, shuffling around my weekly schedule to come home in the middle...

Battle Bards Episode 132: Steampunk

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Steam-powered tech, airships, clockwork machines, and automata are the source of inspiration for this week’s episode of Battle Bards! The team scrounged the landscape...

LOTRO brings back Bingo, blots out bleeds

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Everybody's favorite hard-drinking, crazy-swimming Hobbit is back in Lord of the Rings Online. Standing Stone Games brought Bingo Boffin and his questline to the...

LOTRO enables free character transfers between legendary servers

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Players and kinships separated by the confusion and chaos when Lord of the Rings Online opened up twin legendary servers last week now have...

The Daily Grind: Are special MMO servers worth a subscription?

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With all of the special legacy and progression servers being started up across the MMORPG genre, I've noticed that there's an interesting factor that...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 196: Shire consequences

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Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO's progression server, Funcom's and NCsoft's next big things, Gamigo's plans for Trion's games, and updates for Warframe, DCUO, and Neverwinter, plus discussion on favorite playstyles, legacy server ideas, and the future of Blizzard MMOs.

One Shots: Winter is… here!

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As I'm prepping this column, we're in the middle of a nice early November snowstorm. I'm sort of wondering where fall went and why...

The Daily Grind: What MMO festival reward do you use year-round?

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MMORPG holidays are funny events because while we kill ourselves to get thematic costumes, toys, mounts, and other goodies, the second the event is...

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