American studio known primarily for Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online, and the Asheron’s Call franchise.
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Leaderboard: How much does an MMO’s IP influence your interest in it?
Here's a fun thought exercise: What if standard assumptions about IPs and games is wrong? To hear some people tell it, games like Star...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO news stories of 2018
With the turn of every new year, I know we are entering unexplored territory in the field of MMO news. No matter what we...
Global Chat: Saying farewell to a fellow MMO blogger
The MMO blogging community is a pretty tight-knit one. Most of us know each other (or of each other) and read each other's blogs...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 198: Manatee… in… spaaace!
Justin and Bree discuss Blizzard, LOTRO, Fallout 76, Star Citizen, H1Z1, City of Heroes, Elite Dangerous, Legends of Aria, and computer upgrades.
Global Chat: Investigating LOTRO’s progression servers
The new Lord of the Rings Online progression servers are proving to be of significant interest to MMO players and bloggers alike, with some...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO NPC do you hate with an undying passion?
Sara Oakheart. Let me tell you about Sara Oakheart. If you haven't ever played Lord of the Rings Online, you wouldn't have a clue,...
Massively OP’s guide to MMO Thanksgiving 2018
Unlike with Halloween and Christmas, it seems like MMORPG developers never quite know what to do with the Thanksgiving holiday. Vastly fewer games celebrate...
The Daily Grind: What great MMO grouping experiences have you had lately?
One gaming night that I look forward to every week is Friday evening, because I know that then I'll be dropping all other MMO...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 197: Crawl out through the fallout
Eliot, Justin, and Bree discuss FFXIV's Fanfest, Fallout 76, Hellgate, WildStar, plus patches for Black Desert, EVE, Secret World Legends, ArcheAge, TERA, and EverQuest II, with mail on MMO difficulty settings.
LOTRO Legendarium: Starting on a legendary journey
Part of me was laughing at myself. Here I was, a grown man, shuffling around my weekly schedule to come home in the middle...
Battle Bards Episode 132: Steampunk
Steam-powered tech, airships, clockwork machines, and automata are the source of inspiration for this week’s episode of Battle Bards! The team scrounged the landscape...
LOTRO brings back Bingo, blots out bleeds
Everybody's favorite hard-drinking, crazy-swimming Hobbit is back in Lord of the Rings Online. Standing Stone Games brought Bingo Boffin and his questline to the...
LOTRO enables free character transfers between legendary servers
Players and kinships separated by the confusion and chaos when Lord of the Rings Online opened up twin legendary servers last week now have...
The Daily Grind: Are special MMO servers worth a subscription?
With all of the special legacy and progression servers being started up across the MMORPG genre, I've noticed that there's an interesting factor that...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 196: Shire consequences
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO's progression server, Funcom's and NCsoft's next big things, Gamigo's plans for Trion's games, and updates for Warframe, DCUO, and Neverwinter, plus discussion on favorite playstyles, legacy server ideas, and the future of Blizzard MMOs.
One Shots: Winter is… here!
As I'm prepping this column, we're in the middle of a nice early November snowstorm. I'm sort of wondering where fall went and why...
The Daily Grind: What MMO festival reward do you use year-round?
MMORPG holidays are funny events because while we kill ourselves to get thematic costumes, toys, mounts, and other goodies, the second the event is...
Leaderboard: Are you playing on Lord of the Rings Online’s progression server?
So many people showed up to play on Lord of the Rings Online's progression server Anor yesterday that SSG had to rush to put up...
The Stream Team: Stepping onto LOTRO’s legacy server
Although Massively OP's MJ has no plans to make a life on Anor, LOTRO's brand-spanking new legacy server that just launched, she's still willing...
Lord of the Rings Online opens the doors to its first progression server
It's time to go back to the Shire once again.
Today, Lord of the Rings Online opened up its first "legendary" progression server, Anor. Subscribers...
