American studio known primarily for Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online, and the Asheron’s Call franchise.
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LOTRO patches further adjustments to troubled legendary item grind
With the third round of changes regarding legendary items in Lord of the Rings Online arrives, the community still isn't having it with SSG's...
The MOP Up: Dark Age of Camelot’s 2021 roadmap
For an older MMORPG, Dark Age of Camelot isn't resting on its cyber-laurels. The RvR title posted its initial plans for 2021, and all...
Global Chat: Amazing quality-of-life MMO mechanics
Little things can mean a whole lot, especially if they impact your gameplay for the better. MMO blogger Contains Moderate Peril wrote a list...
One Shots: Where do you find penguin wear?
When you head out to the final frontier in Star Citizen, make sure that you take your favorite, um, penguin? Sure, that sounds like...
The Stream Team: The Epicness of LOTRO’s Mirkwood
There are a number of books of LOTRO's epic story that Massively OP's MJ hasn't finished, but until she wraps up the Mirkwood one,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 306: Money makes the MMOs go ’round
Justin and Bree discuss Pantheon, the KingsIsle and Jagex buyouts, World of Warcraft, Star Trek Online, and Guild Wars 2, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, and SWG Legends, plus mailbox topics on underwater combat and choosing between MMO subs.
One Shots: A good day to respawn
You'd think it would be mentally exhausting to be a Klingon, what with waking up every morning fully expecting to die and looking for...
The Stream Team: Wrapping up the Blood Tide Pirate adventures in Dungeons & Dragons Online
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’
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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...
