turbine

American studio known primarily for Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online, and the Asheron’s Call franchise.

The Stream Team: Wrapping up the Blood Tide Pirate adventures in Dungeons & Dragons Online

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The Blood Tide pirates in DDO just don't want to give up! They've apparently got some wild notion that they can become the...

Massively Overthinking: Retaking Quantic’s survey to determine our ‘gamer type’

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Five years ago - yes, it's been that long! - we did an Overthinking in which our staff all took Quantic's survey to see...

Perfect Ten: The 10 types of MMO loot I’m always thrilled to get

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Loot's not something that I see discussed much these days among MMO players. It's probably because loot's been around since the beginning of online...

Lord of the Rings Online pushes ahead with broadly unpopular patch changes

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While it looked for a minute there that SSG was reconsidering some absolutely awful changes to Lord of the Rings Online, the studio has...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 305: Restoring faith

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Justin and Bree discuss Elite Dangerous' Odyssey delay, LOTRO's latest mishaps, Guild Wars 2 Power, Pirate101 and the KingsIsle sale, and FFXIV's Ishgard restoration, with a Daily Grind blitz and mailbag topics on WoW Shadowlands, seeing how the sausage is made, and lifeskill-centric MMOs.

LOTRO posts 2021 events schedule while players finish off the four-day Winterstock concert

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Drama aside, the show must go on for Lord of the Rings Online. In what promises to be a busy year of content updates,...

LOTRO Legendarium: It’s long past time to delete legendary items from Lord of the Rings Online

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Mines of Moria was easily the most ambitious expansion that Lord of the Rings Online created. Not only did it implement the largest underground...

Lord of the Rings Online pulls back from controversial patch changes

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Usually when there is some sort of controversial change to Lord of the Rings Online, you can find some fiercely loyal players defending Standing...

Dungeons and Dragons Online heralds a new winter festival

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Just because you tossed out the Christmas tree and took down all of the festive decorations doesn't mean you have to settle in for...

LOTRO community rises up in anger over new legendary items money grab

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The test server for Lord of the Rings Online's next patch opened up this week to run Update 28.3 through the paces -- but...

Leaderboard: What’s the most vulnerable Daybreak MMO in 2021?

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Yep, it's that time of year again: We've been doing this recap for the last several years, although this one is going to be...

Lord of the Rings Online’s new expansion bundle smashes its huge barrier to entry

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Lord of the Rings Online had one heck of a 2020, in all the ways you're thinking: It stole players' hearts by giving away...

The Game Archaeologist: Free Realms

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Its very name was a declaration of rebellion against the status quo. In an era that had yet to shift from a subscription-only model...

The Stream Team: Setting sail to pirate adventure in Dungeons and Dragons Online

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With so many of her DDO adventures involving pirates lately, Massively OP's MJ was pretty disappointed that she never got to sail. That changes...

Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2021

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Welcome to 2021, folks. It's not even going to have to try all that hard to be better than 2020! For our first official Massively...
Sad elk in snow.

Lord of the Rings Online’s musicians push back against the cold with Winterstock 8

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As the Yule Festival wraps up and the long, cold nights settle into Lord of the Rings Online, one kinship is looking to bring...
Hope for light.

Perfect Ten: The top MMOs to watch in 2021

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"MMOs are dead!" "MMOs are dying!" "We didn't get any good MMO releases this past year!" While I won't argue with the last one there,...

MMO Year in Review: When Daybreak and Albion got bought out (December 2020)

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Well, we made it to the final recap of the final month of the hell year known as 2020, and for MMOs, at least,...

LOTRO Legendarium: LOTRO’s history in 2020 and hopes for 2021

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Just as how Sam and Frodo experienced depths of despair and heights of hope in their journey to Mount Doom, Lord of the Rings...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMO resolutions for 2021

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Really, there's only one valid resolution for 2021: make it suck less than 2020. That aside, it's customary to ask the Massively OP writers to...

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