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Tamriel Infinium: Our 2017 report card for Elder Scrolls Online
All in all, 2017 has been a fabulous year for the Elder Scrolls Online, and although I have been light on talking about the...
Trion deals with DDOS attacks while ArcheAge dives into its Maelstrom update
Trion Worlds is reporting "intermittent" attacks on its Dallas hub over the last day that are causing connectivity issues for some of its online...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 148: Vampires, kobolds, and pirates
Justin and Bree discuss MOP's December awards, DDO, Secret World Legends, Path of Exile, Hearthstone, Sea of Thieves, RIFT, and Blade and Soul, with mailbag questions on returning to MMOs and love for Champs Online.
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s Hall of Chains raid wing first impressions
I promised you at the end of last week's rundown of Guild Wars 2's fourth Living World season's launch episode that I'd return this week...
Interview: ArcheAge’s 4.0 Maelstrom launches December 13 with changes to lunagems, raid finder, and more
Batten down the hatches because a big storm hits tomorrow! ArcheAge's Maelstrom, with its cross-server navel arena, launches on December 13th. We got to...
Trion is trying to bring Defiance up to date on modern consoles
Most of you probably think of Defiance as "that game that used to tie into a TV show and is probably on borrowed time."...
ArcheAge’s remastering isn’t coming westward, final Maelstrom build hits the PTS soon
If you don't have time to sit through 46 minutes of Trion's latest ArcheAge stream, you might want to check out two minutes of...
RIFT pulls pay-to-win packs out of the store — for now
Reacting to massive community pushback over what is perceived to be pay-to-win packs in the RIFT store, Trion Worlds announced that it is pulling...
LOTRO Legendarium: Fixing Lord of the Rings Online’s grouping problem
One of the quirks -- and frustrations -- of MMORPGs is that there never seems to be one game that truly has it all....
RIFT puts an endgame currency out for real-money sales
Look, we can all agree that "pay-to-win" is, at the very least, a difficult concept to be certain about. Right? There's a lot of...
A ‘remastered’ version of ArcheAge is due out in Korea in 2018
Would it be fair to say that XLGAMES has "mastered" ArcheAge? The developer behind it has been working on the live version for five...
The Daily Grind: What feature from another game would you import into your favorite MMO?
One of the everlasting points of contention between me and the MMO industry is that no game gets everything right. Gah! Can't you mold...
Trion ‘still in active discussions’ with Bluehole over Devilian
With the explosive success of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in 2017, Bluehole Studio is rolling in media coverage, money, and popularity. But some of the studio's...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 146: World of Warcraft’s fun police
Justin and Bree discuss Marvel Heroes' death, Darkfall New Dawn, LOTRO 2018, Neverwinter Nights, WoW's fun police, DDO, Hearthstone, and Trove, with mailbag discussions on Disney the lockbox villain and the max we'd pay for MMO subscriptions.
Trove continues to fine-tune its Adventures update
As any game developer knows, a new content update is not only an opportunity for players to have more fun but for the game...
One Shots: The rat race
At times, I feel like I must be the responsible adult in the MMORPG genre and sit down some of these artists and tell...
The Stream Team: Turkeytopia bestows goodness in Trove
What is more Thanksgiving than hunting tukeys? What, you don't hunt your own turkey? Massively OP's MJ does -- in Trove! That's where turkeys...
Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2017
Stately resting between the gaudy purple and orange of Halloween and merry red and green of Christmas is the earth tone-saturated Thanksgiving. While no...
Trove’s freebie Turkeytopia boxes drop sweet turkey mounts for Thanksgiving
My favorite thing about Trove is that its developers feel absolutely no shame whatsoever about leaning into utter absurdity, hard, and frankly, I think...
ArcheAge kicks off a festival of cooking
The Festival has arrived in ArcheAge. What's it a festival about? Good question. Most festivals have a title of some sort, like "the harvest...