turbine

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

One Shots: Getting all down and cozy

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I love a good cozy place in an MMO, moreso if it's got a fully stocked snack bar and some of my all-time favorite...
There is a metaphor here somewhere.

Battle Bards Episode 154: Death and decay

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Get an early jump on Halloween with the Battle Bards, as they grab the nearest shovel and start unearthing all sorts of morbid and...

The Daily Grind: What MMO do you wish could live forever?

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You all know that I love my hypotheticals by now, so here's another one for our daily discussion period. Imagine that you have the...

Massively Overthinking: The one about MMO roleplay servers

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An MOP reader named Thierry recently pointed us to a brewing storm in the World of Warcraft Classic community: In a nutshell, the server...
This is surely not going to turn out badly.

Lord of the Rings Online warns Mac players not to update their operating system due to software compatability

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If you're happy that we are collectively moving on to 64-bit systems (perhaps you're still really anxious about the impact of the 2038 problem),...

The Stream Team: Completing Korthos Island on Dungeons and Dragons Online

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Massively OP's MJ and her crew of adventurers have just about completed DDO's newbie island, Korthos. Another dungeon, a couple more quests, a defeated...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 240: Hypergank!

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Justin and Bree discuss Star Citizen, Zenith, Guild Wars 2, LOTRO, WoW, and SWG, with mailbag entries on true MMO difficulty and cyberpunk MMOs.

One Shots: An oldie but a goodie

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Last week's screenshot challenge to share pictures of older MMOs that still check out (visually, I mean) resulted in a small avalanche of Lord...

LOTRO Legendarium: Minas Morgul is off to a better start than Mordor

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While we have known for a long while that this was coming, the official announcement of Lord of the Rings Online's 2019 expansion was...

LOTRO: Minas Morgul will take you back in time to the Second Age

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With the undead and possibly soulless cat out of the bag with Minas Morgul, Standing Stone Games is fielding a whole bunch of questions...

PSA: Get your free Dungeons and Dragons Online adventure pack

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Hope you didn't forget that Dungeons and Dragons Online is giving away a free adventure pack of quests in honor of the 10th anniversary...

Lord of the Rings Online starts Minas Morgul pre-orders, rolls out Stout-Axe Dwarves

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What we know for certain: Lord of the Rings Online is pushing out Update 24.3 today, and that single decimal point usually indicates some...

The Daily Grind: What constitutes a ‘classic’ MMO to you?

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Earlier this week, a job posting on Blizzard's career site made it clear that the company considers Diablo III one of its "classic" games....
Hello, art discussion prompt.

Massively OP Podcast Episode 239: Astellia ascending

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Justin and Bree discuss Astellia, Guild Wars 2, ArcheAge Unchained, WoW, LOTRO, PlanetSide Arena, and Project Gorgon, with a mailbag topic on making gaming more productive (or not).

The MOP Up: League of Legends’ future looks bright

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Don't let games like Fortnite and Overwatch make you forget that League of Legends is still a thing. In fact, Riot Games' MOBA saw...

The Game Archaeologist: The day Dungeons and Dragons Online dropped the free-to-play bomb

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By 2009, the MMORPG genre had firmly established a norm for its business model. For over a decade, a monthly subscription -- usually $15...

The Stream Team: Following the Dungeons and Dragons Online newbie campaign trail

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What's life like for a newly minted DDO group? Massively OP's MJ is giving you a front row seat to see! Her group of...

Sea of Thieves celebrates talk like a pirate day with sweet Twitch loot

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Dang, I almost forgot it was talk like a pirate day! If you aren't into LOTRO and World of Warcraft's take on the second-most...

Dungeons & Dragons Online launches a new MacOS client

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If you're playing Dungeons & Dragons Online on an Apple desktop, you're going to need to change clients. The existing MacOS client for the systems...

Lord of the Rings Online begins testing the new Stout-Axe Dwarves

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Ever since we got word that a new Dwarf racial variant was on the way to Lord of the Rings Online, we've been curious...

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