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City of Titans makes a small but significant change to the Avatar Builder UI
What difference can a slider bar possibly make? A pretty good one in the case of City of Titans, which showed off a tweak...
Ship of Heroes starts the year with a better engine and cat masks
When it comes to a superhero MMO, "fast" performance isn't good enough. At least, it's not good enough for the Ship of Heroes team,...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020
This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...
Valiance Online, still gunning for launch this year, drops a brand-new flythrough video
Let's not sugarcoat this: Valiance Online has almost been crowded out of players' vision when it comes to the City of Heroes spiritual successors....
DC Universe Online is offering free access to episodes through February 7
The anniversary event for DC Universe Online has arrived, as the game has turned nine years old and is celebrating with a whole lot of...
The Stream Team: Getting gifts for DC Universe Online’s 9th birthday!
Birthdays are a great time to celebrate, and DC Universe Online turns nine today! That gives Massively OP's MJ an excuse to jump in...
DC Universe Online turns nine years old tomorrow as anniversary festivities roll on
In putting together our big list of MMOs that came out in the last decade, I startled myself yesterday when I realized DC Universe...
Massively Overthinking: The best MMOs of the decade
A few years back, we did a cheeky Massively Overthinking about our five favorite MMORPGs of all time. It was quite a potent list...
Cryptic’s Magic: Legends is an isometric RPG and not an MMORPG because of earth elemental butt
Yesterday, we got our first look at the gameplay in Cryptic's upcoming Magic: Legends MMO, and, well, it didn't go over that well. In...
Perfect Ten: Upcoming MMOs to watch in 2020
There is a great feeling of flipping a calendar over to a fresh year, isn't there? All that promise and potential spread out in...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 254: New year mysteries
Justin and Bree discuss Ashes of Creation, Camelot Unchained, Guild Wars, the Bless franchise, City of Heroes, LOTRO, SWG Legends, and The Witcher, with mailbag topics on CoH on console, PlanetSide's mismanagement, and a celebratory haiku that prompts some follow-up site discussion!
Jukebox Heroes: The best of Otherland’s soundtrack
Despite being an adaption of Tad Williams' enormously popular sci-fi novels, the MMO Otherland was a flop in both of its incarnations. Mismanaged, underdeveloped,...
Into the Super-verse: What superhero MMOs offer that other games don’t
When I was in high school, the Console Wars were heating up between SEGA and Nintendo. I'm afraid to report that many of my...
NCsoft follows up City of Heroes code copyright filing with fresh trademark application
Do you folks remember last summer when we learned that NCsoft had filed copyright documentation for the City of Heroes game code? The June...
See City of Titans’ Alexandria beginner zone in action
After stumbling a couple of years ago when it had hoped to hit alpha testing, City of Titans and its team are projecting confidence...
The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2019
I feel like a broken record saying this, but the success of a blog is not just about page views or ad impressions or...
The best Massively OP community polls of 2019
Time for another annual tradition here on Massively OP: the counting of the polls! Yes, we run a bunch of polls in our irregular...
The Daily Grind: Which MMOs do you want to play in 2020?
There's nothing like a new year -- and a new decade! -- to encourage one to make grand plans that may or may not...
Leaderboard: What’s the best classic MMORPG still running at the end of 2019?
We've noted before that while our awards are pretty good at identifying the big modern MMORPGs and the indie gems, it's much harder to...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO boasts the best console experience?
2019 has been an amazing year for MMOs on console, with Black Desert paving the way to become only the second MMORPG in the...
