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– Star Wars Galaxies
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Jukebox Heroes: The 10 greatest MMO soundtracks of all time (as voted by you)
A few weeks ago we witnessed the showdown of the ages (or at least the epoch known as "late January 2019"), as Massively OP...
Massively Overthinking: Contending with the MMO genre’s ‘wowfugee’ crisis
Last week on the MOP Podcast, we read a letter from a listener named Megan who pointed us to a blog post on the The...
Hyperspace Beacon: The Star Wars MMOs and communities beyond SWTOR
Time flies: I am now coming up on nine years of covering Star Wars: The Old Republic professionally. Of course, I was a Star...
Massively Overthinking: Showing up vs. showing off in MMOs
Last week's Daily Grind about ambient sociability got a lot of MMO gamers talking about that desire to have people around, even if they...
Vague Patch Notes: On play conditioning and the lecture of experience in MMOs
Yes, it's another week in which we talk about abstract concepts that underpin the way we play video games, this time inspired by a...
SWTOR’s Wretched Hive update sends players into the lair of the Geonosian Queen today
The latest update for Star Wars: The Old Republic, GU 5.10.1: The Wretched Hive, is live today, bringing with it a brand-new lair boss,...
Travel to Bespin in one Star Wars Galaxies emulator… eventually
One of the things I always wish SOE had done more of with Star Wars Galaxies was add planets. Yes, it added Kashyyyk and...
Global Chat: Anthem makes first contact with gamers
The game on everyone's mind this month definitely has to be BioWare's Anthem. The studio's first new IP in a long time is a...
One Shots: Diet lightsabers
I think it's about high time we got a Star Wars game in which lightsabers functioned properly as instruments that could melt or slice...
The Soapbox: A pre-mortem for Star Wars The Old Republic, a game that never knew what it had
Would you believe that Star Wars: The Old Republic is shutting down? I'm going to bet that you could believe it, and I'm even going to bet...
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s creative director talks about the characters of Jedi Under Siege
The latest update for Star Wars: The Old Republic brought a lot of characters around. It brought major characters back, it brought new characters into...
The Stream Team: Jedi and jumping puzzles in SWTOR
What do you do when you finish all the main storyline of SWTOR? If you thought celebrate, you'd be wrong. Massively OP's Larry has...
Star Wars: The Old Republic battles the mother of all bugs next week
Even in a galaxy far, far away, pest control is an issue. Of course, this being Star Wars: The Old Republic, those pests are...
Hyperspace Beacon: The tale of Ood Bnar and his place in SWTOR
If you've not watched the "Choose My Alignment" livestreams that MJ and I have been doing over the last couple of years, then you've...
Perfect Ten: Hit franchises that were almost made into MMORPGs
For my money, there are few more tantalizing and agonizing thoughts than the great "What Ifs?" of the MMO genre. What if one title...
SWTOR avoids a formal 2019 roadmap but gives a peek at what’s to come
Star Wars: The Old Republic fans eager to hear a detailed roadmap for the game's 2019 run are bound to be disappointed by BioWare's...
Storyboard: Can you diverge from lore in MMORPG roleplaying?
All right, this is new for me because most of my titles do not contain dirty lies right in the question used to kick...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever been to a concert in an MMO?
Slightly embarrassing story time: One of my favorite things to do in classic Star Wars Galaxies was sing. Yes, musicians and dancers were technically...
Vague Patch Notes: How to recognize MMO lies from quite a long way away
One of the most consistently weird elements of covering MMOs is that there's a very simple and yet incredibly odd metric of knowing if...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 206: This is our Anthem
Justin and Bree discuss MMO character creation systems, the Anthem demo mess, Ragnarok 2's abrupt development end, WoW's new raid, Daybreak's EverQuest franchise plans, Last Oasis, and Fallout 76, with mailbag questions on needlessly complicated MMOs and subs for maintenance mode games.