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Massively OP's Larry and MJ need to take care of Blizzness in SWTOR. They will be finishing up the Blizz recruitment quests, hoping to...

Another year is coming to a close! That means we're doing all of our usual end-of-year recaps, and that also means that we're once...

Justin and Bree discuss delays and do-overs for Project Nova, Path of Exile, Fractured, and Blades, plus WildStar's sunset, Red Dead Online, and Fallout 76's many messes, with mailbag questions on keeping up with new MMOs and combat-free titles.

A couple of months ago, I did a Daily Grind asking folks to find something nice to say about MMOs they hate. It was...

With Jedi Under Siege launching December 11th, BioWare is ramping up its hype machine for Star Wars: The Old Republic. To wit: There's a...

If you've been following Saga of Lucimia, you probably know how the game's build tests work in pre-alpha: Stormhaven opens the servers periodically with...

Massively OP's own Justin "The Game Archaeologist" Olivetti deep-dived the history of Toontown Online in his column just about a year ago, but truth...

Every MMO player knows that a vast majority of NPCs that we encounter will be one-quest stands. We'll do something nice for them, they'll...

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...

Star Wars: The Old Republic's Jedi Under Siege is happening, folks, and it's launching before Christmas: On December 11th, in fact. "All-out war is imminent…...

I have been buried in Star Wars: The Old Republic lore for about 8 years now, and it pains me to admit this, but...

In those final moments of SWTOR's story to date, the audience chose to side with the Republic when things shake up again. That, and...

You know that old chestnut about how the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist? The greatest trick...

Next month, Star Wars: The Old Republic's game update 5.10, Jedi Under Siege, will go live, bringing with it a new zone, new quests,...

Update 5.10 for Star Wars: The Old Republic is coming very soon, possibly next week, but more likely the week after. That's not a...

The designers on Star Wars: The Old Republic aren't totally happy with some quirks of the Masterwork gearing system at the moment. It's too...

I spent a bunch of time post-BlizzCon thinking about why World of Warcraft personally bothered me. Not why its design pitfalls bothered me; that's...

Since the launch of the game, guilds have been a real weakness for Star Wars: The Old Republic. For the longest time, I have...

Veteran MMORPG designer Raph Koster has up a new blog post that sheds some light on the many angles of developing an MMORPG. In...

Just because real-life polls closed last week doesn't mean your voting days are done. No, you are needed right here, to help determine the...