standing stone games

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

Missed LOTRO’s Weatherstock X? Watch (and listen) to the full experience!

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Are you kicking yourself that you missed out on last weekend's Weatherstock X in Lord of the Rings Online? The tenth player music festival,...

Perfect Ten: The best expansions for specific MMOs

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Looking over the past two decades or so, MMORPGs have grown by leaps and bounds with regular releases, events, and (of course) expansion packs....

Massively OP Podcast Episode 179: MMO parenting fails

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Justin and Bree discuss Star Wars Galaxies Legends, World of Warcraft, Elite Dangerous, LOTRO's Weatherstock, Trion's layoffs, No Man's Sky's multiplayer, DDO, and Wizard 101 updates, with mailbag entries on how to start an MMO blog and spooky stuff in Guild Wars 2.

One Shots: Party animals

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Apologies for the disruption in the normal One Shots schedule over the past couple of weeks, but we're back and freakishly abnormal! Everyone behave...

LOTRO calls Middle-earth groupies to celebrate Weatherstock X

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There is perhaps no MMO player music festival as well-known and -attended as the yearly bash at the summit of Lord of the Rings...

Dungeons and Dragons Online tells tales of the White Plume Mountain

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Whether you're chaotic evil or lawful good, there is always more adventure ahead of you in Dungeons and Dragons Online! Game Update 39 has...

Battle Bards Episode 124: Old MMOs, new music

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It’s a catch-all, catch-up episode for the Battle Bards as they dig through new soundtrack releases from MMORPGs that they’ve covered in the past!...

Perfect Ten: Best MMO debuts by year, 2007-2017

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Continuing from my previous column that went back to 1997, I'm going to be running through the second decade of graphical MMORPG launches and...

Dungeons and Dragons Online tests patch with birds of prey and ‘wizards run amok’

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It's high summer, and in Dungeons and Dragons Online that means it is time to pack up, leave the city, and set a destination...

One Shots: My name is Captain Vanity

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As I'm off on vacation this week, I knew that I wasn't going to be able to cull through the previous One Shots comment...

LOTRO Legendarium: Are the new seasonal instances a win or a whimper?

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Let us travel back to 2009, when Lord of the Rings Online released its second expansion pack, Siege of Mirkwood. This pint-sized expansion seemed...

Global Chat: A starting point for WoW Classic

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The recent announcement of WoW Classic's starting point -- Patch 1.12 -- started to make the prospect of this legacy server a lot more...

One Shots: Better virtual homes and gardens

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Lately I've been overdosing on some serious Sims 4 time (blame the Seasons expansion announcement for this!) and indulging in my long-standing passion for...

The Stream Team: Sun and fun in LOTRO’s summer festival

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It has been... well, almost a fortnight since LOTRO's last festival, so it's obviously time for another! The summer festival has begun, and Massively...

Perfect Ten: The best MMO debuts by year, 1997-2006

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By now, many of you probably know that I'm the curator of the MMO Timeline on my personal blog. On this page, I've attempted...

Lord of the Rings Online plans a ‘perfect picnic’ with this week’s summer festival

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Lord of the Rings Online's summer festival is coming back on June 28th, and this year the event has a couple of exciting surprises...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 176: Guild Wars 2, The Crew 2, and Elder Scrolls too

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Justin and Bree discuss Fractured's Kickstarter, Trion Worlds' purchase of Gazillion, Guild Wars 2's new episode, The Crew 2's launch, drama in Elder Scrolls Online and Black Desert, The Sims, DDO, Trove, what we bought in the Steam sale, and pipedreams for Marvel Heroes.

The Daily Grind: What are your summer MMO goals?

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Now that most schools are out and the heat has begun in earnest in the northern hemisphere, it's the perfect time to retreat into...

The MOP Up: Skyforge’s PvP revolution (June 17, 2018)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

Lord of the Rings Online continues to fine-tune class adjustments

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How many number twos can Standing Stone Games put after a Lord of the Rings Online patch before it collapses from the sheer decimal...

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