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LOTRO Legendarium: LOTRO’s Update 41 plans monster play reward track, birding hobby, and coop crafting event
Yesterday's Lord of the Rings Online dev stream was a particularly informative one as SSG's Orion made an appearance to talk about what's coming...
The Stream Team: Wake me up before you go go in DDO
With two of the three reagents needed to counter Lord Arden's sleeping curse in DDO, Massively OP's MJ just has one more thing to...
Lord of the Rings Online to reveal its newest hobby, Birdwatching, this Friday
It's (almost) official: Lord of the Rings Online's second and newest hobby is to be Birdwatching.
SSG's Orion teased the reveal on the forums, saying...
Dungeons and Dragons Online hands out free dragon mounts, grants more time to claim free xpack
It's a double dose of good news from Dungeons and Dragons Online this week. Update 67.3 arrives today with a few tweaks, including the...
Lord of the Rings Online’s ultra-slow progression server finally hits level 100 this week
Almost three years after it first launched, Lord of the Rings Online's Treebeard server is finally hitting the level 100 threshold this week.
The game's...
The Daily Grind: Do you bring any habits from one MMO to the next?
So a few weekends ago, I was doing overworld questing on my Hobbit Hunter in Lord of the Rings Online when I caught myself...
Global Chat: V Rising isn’t the Diablo clone you might expect
In An Age tucked into the bloody meal that is V Rising following the vampiric survival game's launch and found it a mixed bag...
One Shots: Who left the lights on?
As a dad, I am perhaps consumed by a drive to make sure that all of the lights in the house are off when...
The Stream Team: Encountering A Frosty Reception in Dungeons & Dragons Online
If there's one thing Massively OP's MJ has seen a lot of in Dungeons & Dragons Online's Feywild, it's flowers. The entire "road"...
Perfect Ten: My top 10 favorite MMOs across two decades
Normally in these Perfect Ten lists, I'm very outward-facing. I like to create lists that are as helpful or amusing as possible for others...
LOTRO squashes a pesky spider (and other bugs) with Update 40.0.1
Who doesn't want to see a few bugs squashed in an MMO -- especially if said critter had too many legs for comfort? Lord...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 470: Pandaria re-re-remix!
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Pandaria Remix, Diablo IV Loot Reborn, Wayfinder Echoes, Nightingale, Wagadu Chronicles' sunset, and MMO studio Q1 financials from around the industry, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, and Farm Together 2, plus a mailbag topic on MMO intro music.
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPGs are more about PvE than PvM?
We don't talk about PvM vs. PvE all that much in the MMORPG genre, but we should. Maybe we like a PvE vs. PvP...
Lord of the Rings Online begins a weekly quest rollout this Wednesday
If a new legendary reward track, mini-underground zones, and a supporter pack isn't enough to sate your hunger for new Lord of the Rings...
LOTRO Legendarium: Moria, Gundabad, and LOTRO’s lessons on underground design
In late 2008, Lord of the Rings Online released its first and highly touted expansion, Mines of Moria, featuring the iconic Dwarven underground kingdom...
Beloved Dungeons and Dragons Online dev Quentin Cantor leaves SSG
The word is starting to get around that Dungeons and Dragons Online recently saw one of its beloved developers depart Standing Stone Games. Quentin...
The Stream Team: Looking for lute in DDO places
What is Dungeons & Dragons Online about if not collecting loot? Or today: lute. If a lute is used in creating a sleeping curse,...
Massively Overthinking: Fixing boring MMORPG dungeons
Earlier this month, MMO genre luminary Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street tweeted something from someone on his Ghost MMO team that's going to resonate with a...
Vague Patch Notes: There is no one-and-done with MMOs
Last week's Vague Patch Notes column focused on the struggle of adding new things to MMORPGs forever and ever. I think it was a...
EG7 Q1 2024: Daybreak still mum on PlanetSide 2, new H1Z1 game hires lead designer
It's not even been two weeks since Daybreak owner EG7 published its 2023 annual financial report, which of course omitted everything relevant that happened...
