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Tabletop games and MMORPGs seem like they would go well together, but remarkably they often don't. That's true for several reasons, but one of...

MMOs and politics once again collide this week as last night CNN broke the news that Robert Mueller's FBI team has zeroed in on...

A thinkpiece that we had back in April about the difficulty levels (or lack thereof) in MMORPGs sparked some interesting discussion among gaming bloggers...

Never say the devs aren't listening: Standing Stone Games apparently is. Lord of the Rings Online forumgoers learned this lesson today when in a player-started...

Sometimes I am just so proud of our One Shots crowd here at Massively OP. I keep coming up with ludicrous screenshot challenges and...

Look down — and it’ll be the last thing you’ll ever see! That’s because fury and death arrive in the form of short character...

Justin and Bree discuss Wild West Online, EVE Online, WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Ragnarok, Elite, LOTRO, Star Trek Online, Trove, and City of Heroes' Paragon Chat, with mailbag questions on free-to-play entitlement and whether expansions need new classes.

One of the most pleasant surprises I experienced in a while came a week or so ago when Standing Stone Games announced that it...

Buried in the Daybreak ruckus of last week was the rumor that Daybreak is not in fact merely the publisher of Standing Stone Games'...

With the prodigious and well-known appetite of Hobbits, it's a total surprise to me that the Shire hasn't been stripped bare with these creatures'...

Over the last couple of days, we've been covering the Daybreak scandal - specifically, how concerns over the impact of government sanctions on Daybreak's...

Like many MMORPGs, Dungeons and Dragons Online has a daily reward system, which it calls "Daily Dice" (D&D, dice, you get it). In today's...

Ever since Standing Stone Games started ramping up the prominence of Lord of the Rings Online's lockboxes following last year's Mordor expansion, the microtransactions...

Justin and Bree discuss DDO, Secret World Legends, Star Trek Online, Trove, Ultima Online, the Russian Telegram crisis' effect on MMOs, TERA, Kritika, RIFT Prime, and MapleStory 2, with mailbag topics on zoning out in MMOs and finding classic play niches in modern crowdfunded MMOs.

It's been 11 years, and Massively OP's MJ is no where near tiring of roaming Middle-earth in LOTRO. (She's also no where near finishing...

Best and worst, top and bottom: It's fun to discuss video game in absolute extremes (at times). And I'll bet that a lot of...

Now that Lord of the Rings Online has emerged from Mordor, it's preparing to go back in the future. SSG's Rob Ciccolini and Jerry...

One of the true joys for many Lord of the Rings Online fans is being able to explore an intricate and often gorgeous-looking Middle-earth....

The call for adventurers has gone out yet again in Dungeons and Dragons Online. Yesterday, the game pushed out Update 38: Disciples of Rage,...

Video games have always been a remarkably insular field; that's the nature of development. Someone produces Super Mario Bros, and a few years later...