American studio known primarily for Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online, and the Asheron’s Call franchise.
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The Daily Grind: What’s your comfort MMO?
In all of the years that I've been playing MMORPGs, I've noticed that it is far, far easier to return to a known property...
LOTRO Update 21.1 works to improve Mordor
The road goes ever on for Lord of the Rings Online -- as does the work needed on its newest expansion, Mordor. Today the...
LOTRO Legendarium: A trip back through LOTRO’s expansions
Now that we're in the thick of Lord of the Rings Online: Mordor (which I'm still enjoying very much), my mind has taken a...
The Daily Grind: What’s a rite of passage in your MMO?
Lately I've been playing a new Hobbit Hunter in Lord of the Rings Online, which has the added benefit of bringing me back to...
Massively Overthinking: Alone together vs. forced grouping in MMORPGs
I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that everyone has at some point seen the xkcd called Isolation, but if not, there...
Global Chat: The MMO blogosphere’s reaction to Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire
It seems like the entire MMO blogosphere wanted to chip in thoughts on the Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire announcement, whether or not...
One Shots: Out for a monster stroll
He just wanted to go out for a casual stroll. He picked the worst possible day to do it.
Todd the Troll lumbered out of...
Lord of the Rings Online tidies up Mordor with a post-launch patch
Expansion launches come with all sorts of messiness, and it's up to developer to clean (or ignore) the issues that a great deal of...
Global Chat: What Asian MMOs can learn from the west
Usually when it comes to discussing world hemispheres of MMO game design, comments and observations are made about what western studios can learn from their...
LOTRO brings back summer festival for a reprise, talks about getting a ‘breather’ from Mordor’s gloom
Missed Lord of the Rings Online's summer festival the first time around? Have a few quests left to do or some extra tokens to...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 130: Flame and Fire
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2: Path of Fire, Lord of the Rings Online: Mordor, Path of Exile: Fall of Oriath, and WoW's alt-friendly plans, with mailbag questions on MMO raiding and console MMOs.
LOTRO Legendarium: First steps into Mordor
Victory.
It's a fascinating place to begin an expansion, really. Most games like to set up a new threat, pit players against impossible odds, and...
Going to Mordor in LOTRO? Take this handy guide with you!
Players in Lord of the Rings Online are quickly discovering that Mordor doesn't mess around. The new region will kick your butt and hard,...
Choose My Adventure: Get out of here, DC Universe Online
So this is an unusual situation for me: I've never actually played a game for Choose My Adventure that I've disliked this much.
Those of...
Leaderboard: Did you go back to LOTRO for Mordor?
Before we begin, let's just get the trailer thing out of our systems. It was bad. Really bad. OK? Good. That's done.
Lord of the...
Battle Bards Episode 102: Pure joy
Is it even possible for pure joy to be derived from MMORPG music? Whether or not, the Battle Bards are going to take a...
Lord of the Rings Online’s Mordor expansion is officially live with a launch trailer
After just a brief delay (but still probably way too soon), Lord of the Rings Online has officially launched its Mordor expansion. I'm sure...
Lord of the Rings Online publishes patch notes for tomorrow’s Mordor expansion
One does not simply log into Mordor... unless one waits until tomorrow, in which case, one totally will be able to do so.
With Lord...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 129: Treasure Trove
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, Secret World Legends, Trove, ArcheAge, Blade & Soul, Star Citizen, Chronicles of Elyria, Crowfall, and DCUO, with mailbag questions on non-fantasy MMOs and soloing in MMOs: %SURL%
Hacker claims to have made a living cheating in MMOs for two decades
Motherboard has a fun-slash-depressing piece out this week on an unnamed hacker who claims he's been cheating at MMORPGs to make a living for...
