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Into the Super-verse: A heroic year of superhero MMO development
As we get ready to tuck 2020 into the annals of history and venture into the wilds of 2021, it's a good time for...
One Shots: Memories in crystal
We don't just take screenshots of MMOs to impress each other but to cement memories that would otherwise fade away to the ravages of...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Biggest MMO Surprise of 2020
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Biggest MMO Surprise of 2020, which was awarded to the revival of City...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 301: Hurtling into Oblivion
Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online's Gates of Oblivion, Crimson Desert, Elite Odyssey, Ark 2, Black Desert, WoW Shadowlands, PSO2, LOTRO, EverQuest, and FFXIV, with adventures in WoW, SWTOR, and CoH, and a mailbag topic on CoH Brutes that spirals into meta and endgame discussion.
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Character Customization
MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with... what's this? A brand-new award? Yep! This year we're debuting a new formal award for Best...
The Daily Grind: What was the best MMO emulator or rogue server in 2020?
Fun fact: We came up with "rogue server" last year in an attempt to disambiguate the word "emulator" and remove some of the whitewash...
Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Most Underrated MMO
Welcome to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year 2020 awards!
Every year, we poll our writers on the best and worst MMOs, stories, studios, and trends and...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 300: It’s beginning to feel a lot like Daybreak
Justin and Bree discuss the Daybreak sale, World of Warcraft, SWTOR, City of Heroes, Skyforge, and min-maxing in MMOs in this live-recorded 300th podcast.
DC Universe Online asks you to rescue Christmas, one gift at a time
Daybreak Game Company's number one MMO (we can say that now, we have hard data) doesn't quite do the holidays like everyone else. Here,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best graphical appeal in 2020?
OK, graphics snobs, this unofficial annual award is for you. Now, I will play an old, clunky, beloved sandbox for a really long time. And...
Massively Uplifting: Giving while giving thanks as ARK, Ashes of Creation, Rainbow Six Siege, and more support charity
Around these parts, November highlights giving thanks (though no country has a monopoly on the practice!), and this past month not only gave us...
LOTRO Legendarium: What Daybreak’s sale revealed about LOTRO
Just when I thought we were getting to a quieter point in the year where I could engage in a leisurely wrap-up of the...
City of Heroes: Homecoming starts its holiday event and improves long-range transport
Oh, there's no place like City of Heroes: Homecoming for the holidays, for no matter how far you should roam... you can always get back...
Console LOTRO and DCUO’s huge playerbase: Everything we just learned about Daybreak thanks to EG7
MMO twitter has been ablaze since yesterday's announcement that Daybreak is being bought up in its entirety by Swedish games company Enad Global 7,...
LOTRO, DDO, EverQuest, DCUO, and PlanetSide 2 studio heads reassure players about Daybreak sale
Following yesterday's revelation that Daybreak has been sold to Swedish company Enad Global 7 for $300M, the bosses at Daybreak's substudio have all now...
Daybreak has been sold – again – this time to EG7 Global for $300M
Who had this on the end-of-the-year bingo card? Apparently, Daybreak has been bought out - again.
The company holding the hot potato this round is...
Ship of Heroes’ latest video talks mission creation and likely 2021 launch
How do they make the sausage when the sausage is an MMORPG? Generally, gamers are quickly made to regret that question, but Heroic Games...
Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the devs of the MMO genre
Thanksgiving conveniently falls on a Thursday every year, which means it's the perfect topic for our regular Thursday Massively Overthinking roundtable. I've asked our writers what they're grateful for in and around the MMO genre the last couple of years - and now we're gonna do it again.
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO blessings to be thankful for in 2020
There is no doubt that this has been a much more difficult year than most in many respects, almost to the point where it's...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 298: The one with the chocobo
Justin and Bree discuss WoW Shadowlands, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2 Truce, Final Fantasy XIV, and Wizard 101, with adventures in New World and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on WoW marketing and our defining MMORPGs.
