American studio known primarily for Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online, and the Asheron’s Call franchise.
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Massively OP Podcast Episode 423: The Overwatch MMO we’ll never get
Justin and Bree discuss Amazon's LOTR title and shade for LOTRO, Overwatch 2's PvE debacle, Worlds Adrift's return as Lost Skies, and delays for Nightingale, Ashfall, and Wayfinder, with adventures in LOTRO and Torchlight II, plus mailbag topics on character build freedom and the natural and unnatural ends of MMO characters.
Choose My Adventure: DDO’s Catacombs offer a classic taste of the MMOs storytelling
Let me start this week's Choose My Adventure on something of a tangent - a parallel one, but a tangent nonetheless. If it wasn't...
The Daily Grind: Why did you delete the last MMO character you deleted?
Every deleted MMO character has a story. Sometimes the concept or name sucked. Sometimes you decided on a different race or faction. Sometimes you...
LOTRO Legendarium: Amazon plays at making a Lord of the Rings MMO… again
Weren't we just here?
I mean, that's what everyone's thinking, am I right? It was just three years ago that I penned a column about...
Annoyed with LOTRO’s scaling and launcher issues? An MMO dev has tips for solving them yourself
Whenever we write a Lord of the Rings Online article here on MassivelyOP, it's inevitable that someone - usually someones - will pop into...
The Stream Team: Delving into the Catacombs of Dungeons and Dragons Online
MOP's Chris is hosting another CMA Live stream today, and since his selected game is Dungeons and Dragons Online, that means it's time for...
Dungeons and Dragons Online adds a scavenger hunt in its latest hardcore season
Finding a hidden surprise in newly released content is fun, but it appears that some of that fun is being spoiled for players of...
Amazon Games VP throws shade at LOTRO over new Lord of the Rings project
With the recent announcement of a new Lord of the Rings MMO in development by Amazon Games, one would expect the newcomer to follow...
EG7 Q1 2023: EG7 pulled in a record $54M last quarter, and Daybreak is a huge chunk of it
Enad Global 7 aka EG7, the company that owns Daybreak, Standing Stone Games, and Piranha Games and is effectively still being run by Daybreak...
Lord of the Rings Online promises that it’s ‘not going away’ after Amazon MMO announcement
As exciting it's been to hear that Amazon is working on a Middle-earth MMO again, some Lord of the Rings Online fans expressed concern...
Dungeons and Dragons Online kicks off its eighth hardcore season
"Permadeath" isn't a dirty word when it's said under the right conditions. And for a while now, those conditions have been present in Dungeons...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 422: Two Lord of the Rings MMOs to rule them all
Justin and Bree discuss Amazon's new LOTR MMO (again), LOTRO's King's Gondor, WoW's Fractured in Time, official WoW Classic hardcore, Diablo IV, FFXIV, and financials for NCsoft, Square, and Pearl Abyss, with adventures in LOTRO, SWTOR, and SWG Legends.
Choose My Adventure: Sludging through the Saltmarsh of Dungeons and Dragons Online
This week's Choose My Adventure episode was all about heading to a new-to-me area in Dungeons and Dragons Online: Saltmarsh. Trust me, it would...
Dungeons and Dragons Online offers players a brief look at some rewards for its next hardcore season
The newest hardcore season for Dungeons and Dragons Online is going live on May 17th, but before then Standing Stone Games used its usual...
Amazon has revived its Lord of the Rings MMORPG, now collaborating with Embracer
Amazon and Embracer announced this morning that they're building a new MMORPG based on The Lord of the Rings.
To understand what the heck is...
Lord of the Rings Online addresses new siege system and tougher landscape difficulty
With Update 36's first preview on the test server this past week, Lord of the Rings Online fans and devs alike find themselves looking...
One Shots: Who left the gas stove on?
So. This is awkward. I know everyone has an excuse why you were definitely not messing around with the giant's gas stove in Blade...
LOTRO Legendarium: A look back at Lord of the Rings Online’s Fate of Gundabad
When Lord of the Rings Online released Mines of Moria in November 2008, the expansion became one of the most amusedly divisive in the...
The Stream Team: It’s One Dame Thing After Another in DDO
The latest round of giveaway codes in Dungeons & Dragon Online unlocked new missions for Massively OP's MJ. Even if she might be a...
Massively Overthinking: What’s your monthly MMO budget?
Unless you are fabulously wealthy, you probably maintain some sort of budget for your discretionary expenses, and if MMOs had their way, they'd claim...
