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With 20 million players and six years of life under its belt, The Sims 4 has been a long-running powerhouse for the franchise. However,...

Behind history are people and stories, some of them well-known and some of them obscure. It has been my mission in The Game Archaeologist...

When studios go about making MMORPGs, risk comes along with the effect as a matter of course. The only question is how to reduce...

We've got a couple of updates on the emulator/rogue server front. Specifically, the return of Battle of the Immortals, which was sunsetted by PWE...

Just because it's the hottest month of the year doesn't mean we don't want to bury ourselves in warm fuzzies! Positivity is always welcome...

I want to wax poetic about Warhammer Online for a moment here. While it never maintained the initial level of success that it saw...

You know how people advise you to "dress in layers" during inclement weather? And you think, "If I'm wearing pants, I'm doing well here,...

While The Game Archaeologist columns take up the most time of any project I do here at Massively OP, I absolutely love doing them...

If you were gaming back in those heady MMO days before World of Warcraft, you probably remember Motor City Online, a short-lived racing MMO...

While every Battle Bards episode is a cavalcade of strangeness, this week the team is ratcheting it up with the return of “Oddball” MMORPG...

Sony's decision to shut down several online servers for some past PlayStation 3 games on October 25th is shaping up to be a sunset...

I've been thinking a lot about MMO sunsets lately, thanks to WildStar, Pirates of the Burning Sea, and even that ridiculous Free Guy movie...

Hindsight is 20/20. Unless you're blind in one eye from nostalgia, in which case hindsight is 0/20. In any case, you understand that it's...

Seed resurfaced this summer after intensive work by studio Klang Games building out the colony simulation MMO (plus a big influx of investor money),...

You know what gets me excited about upcoming MMOs? It's certainly not the list of expected systems and features that have since become standard...

Plenty of panels at GDC are recorded and uploaded to the internet weeks after the event, including this one. It's not quite the same...

When we moved over here to Massively Overpowered, some of us transplanted our long-running columns to the new space. I perhaps felt most devastated...

Don't ever test Raph Koster on MMORPG history, because you'll probably lose. The Star Wars Galaxies and Crowfall designer challenged a recent Rolling Stone article and...

We don't cover the Battlefield games much on Massively OP, but this particular story caught my attention anyway because of the company and subject...

Massively OP's Justin Olivetti has a provocative article on his personal gaming blog, Bio Break, this week on MMORPG housing. "I once again wonder why...