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Calling it one of the most "monumental builds" to ever come to the game, Villagers and Heroes is preparing to unleash Patch 4.0: Starfall...

A slightly ambiguous Facebook post had some RIFT players worried that the game was finished with its current expansion cycle altogether. In a discussion about...

Justin and Eliot discuss FFXIV, FFXI, Black Desert, Neverwinter, World of Warcraft, Secret World Legends, LOTRO, EverQuest, Allods, and RIFT, with mailbag questions on MMO role homogenization, PvP pay-to-win, and the Marvel Heroes uproar.

When it comes to text-based MMOs created in the '80s, '90s, and 2000s, the sheer number of them would blot out the sky. There...

Everything is better doubled. Get a paycheck? It'd be even better if it were two paychecks. Got a car? You could have two cars....

You might recall that back in March, the RIFT producer's letter stated that the team was mulling over the idea of instituting limited-run "challenge...

Dungeons are deeply on my mind as of late, mostly because I've been missing doing them in MMORPGs. It's odd: In particular MMOs, I...

What do you do if you're a sentient stone head who has been tasked with centuries of guard duty? You probably do a lot...

Ever since the tone-deaf SOE proclamation that nobody wanted to play Uncle Owen in an MMORPG, contrary me has consciously fought that very stupid...

A fresh expansion is on the way for ArcheAge, Trion announced this afternoon. It's called Erenor Eternal, and you'll be downloading it in all...

On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin is joined by MJ to chit-chat about The Secret World (Legends), ESO Morrowind, TERA, RIFT, Wild West Online, Guild Wars 2, ARK, Conan Exiles, EverQuest II, Warframe, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on returning to MMOs, F2P MMO recommendations, and our old Marvel Heroes guild.

If you were a little bit puzzled by Trion's announcement this week that it was changing the name of RIFT's latest expansion from Starfall Prophecy...

RIFT's latest expansion is getting a name change from Starfall Prophecy to Prophecy of Ahnket. No, it's not some veiled NGE; it's just an...

Season 3 has dropped in Trion's Atlas Reactor today, introducing the brand-new Hyperforge map and a brand-new support hero, Meridian. "He blurs the line between...

Are gamers really lonely? Do we flock to MMORPGs as a response to that? I'm pondering these thoughts today following the response of a...

If you play one of Trion Worlds' online games, then chances are very good that you also use Trion's Glyph launcher on a daily...

Back when I mentioned that I was learning to like Black Desert a while back, I got this tweet from the game's official account....

The new Defiance event is full of disease. There's an outbreak of some illness or another with all-new Arkfalls, but what's really important is...

Today, Ashes of Creation takes a big plunge into an all-or-nothing Kickstarter campaign. Over the past few months, the MMO seemed to come out...

Last week, Massively OP community veteran BalsBigBrother pointed out -- rightly! -- that while Trove is amusing, it's very much lacking in prepared story or...