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Lord of the Rings Online posts its full 2025 event...

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2025/01/17

Are you the type of person who likes to plan ahead, even when it comes to in-game activities? Then you’re going to love drinking from the firehose of Lord of the Rings Online’s full 2025 event schedule. Most of the year’s major festivals and minor recurrent events and bonus periods are listed here, including the […]

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Vague Patch Notes: The unsettling optics of the Stars...

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2025/01/17

As soon as I saw the news that Stars Reach was going to be launching a Kickstarter, I immediately stood up, got dressed, and drove down to the nearest beach. It’s January, so it was cold, but it’s New England, so that’s pretty normal. I just stared over a seemingly endless field of slate-grey water […]

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Riot Games, still closed in LA thanks to the...

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2025/01/17

Last week, we covered the devastation happening in Southern California, where half a dozen wildfires were ripping through Los Angeles neighborhoods from working class areas to Malibu. If the story has fallen off your radar, just know that the fires are actually not under control yet; as winds finally calmed down, the Palisades fire is […]

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RuneScape fans riot over Jagex survey on $33 subs,...

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2025/01/17

Yesterday we reported on a conjoint survey being sent out by Jagex to players of RuneScape and Old School RuneScape with a stated intention of “[exploring] how players value different membership features and combinations.” Those surveys did indeed get sent out, and the suggested changes within them have caused players to go completely apoplectic. Several […]

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Age of Water stealth-launched out of early access...

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2025/01/17

Remember back in November when seafaring survival MMO Age of Water announced a launch and then immediately walked it back, saying it was just a technical glitch on Steam? Well, this week’s patch is no glitch, and it does move the game from early access to launch, though if you blink, you’ll miss that part. […]

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Path of Exile 2’s endgame-focused patch 0.1.1 is live...

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2025/01/17

Path of Exile 2’s Grinding Gear Games already provided a video overview of patch 0.1.1, but maybe you would prefer to have your patch information in a readable changelist format instead of listening to the dulcet Kiwi tones of the MMOARPG’s director. Well, here you go. The patch notes for today’s now-live patch provide more […]

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The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite classic World...

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2025/01/17

Last week, WoW Classic Classic pushed along with its planned release timetable, adding in two old world bosses, refurbing the honor system, and opening up Dire Maul. It’s the last of these that caught my attention because I have so many fond feelings for that dungeon. For those who don’t remember, Dire Maul wasn’t in […]

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The Stream Team: Solving Stormreach madness in...

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2025/01/17

Although scorrow venom granted immunity to the Madness of Crowds curse that plagues Stormreach in DDO, obtaining enough to cure all of the city is impossible. Or is it? Thanks to the legends shared by drow trader D’naria L’roshal, who came from her hidden Vulkoorim village deep in the jungle to help, Massively OP’s MJ […]

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Massively Overthinking: What will be your three most...

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2025/01/17

So here we are at the top of another year, looking ahead at what we think we’re going to play. Consider this week’s Massively Overthinking a personal predictions, a follow-up to the Overthinking we just did on the three MMOs we played the most last year. This isn’t about anticipating so much as knowing yourself: […]

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US government agency is hoping to extend consumer...

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2025/01/16

It’s fairly well known by now that most governments and the laws they enact do not do a good job of keeping pace with technology. Even so, some moves being proposed by a US government agency might be providing some manner of help when it comes to digital currencies in multiple video games such as […]

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Last Epoch shares a general roadmap of additions and...

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2025/01/16

If you were dismayed by September’s reveal that Last Epoch is going to push its next content update into sometime early this year, perhaps you’ll be mollified by some end-of-year plans shared by developer Eleventh Hour Games that provides a little more clarity on just what’s planned for “Season 2 and beyond.” Among the additions […]

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Old School RuneScape opens Leagues V reward shop and...

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2025/01/16

It’s a new week in Old School RuneScape, and if you’ve been among those playing in the Leagues V server, then this week has all sorts of rewards for you to spend your points on. Assuming of course that you want a creepy-faced tree on your home plot or purple robes for your character to […]

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Conan Exiles pauses content delivery and focuses...

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2025/01/16

We know that MMORPG genre players are currently tapping their feet in Funcom’s direction, urging on the development of Dune Awakening, but the studio is still maintaining Conan Exiles too, and it even delivered a producer’s letter this week recapping the conclusion of Age of War and the start of Age of Heroes in 2024. […]

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Black Desert adds a spicy new horse on PC and beefs...

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2025/01/16

We have to admit that hopping on to the back of a horse that’s crackling with golden electricity sounds like a really bad idea, but then again we’re talking about MMORPGs, where players do things that are wildly against all logic and self-preservation. So go ahead. Hop on to the back of the new dream […]

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Tower of Fantasy posts preview videos for its January...

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2025/01/16

Tuesday, January 21st, is bringing on a new content update for shared world RPG Tower of Fantasy, and if the two preview videos shared by the game are anything to go by, things are about to get very apocalyptic, pretty dramatic, and lightly fanservice-y. So, you know, anime as all get-out. The first video focuses […]

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Rob Pardo’s Bonfire Studios announces Arkheron, a new...

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2025/01/16

Way back in 2016, when MassivelyOP was still young and innocent, former World of Warcraft lead designer Rob Pardo announced a new development studio called Bonfire Studios, and then everyone forgot all about it because it’s been like a thousand years since then. But Bonfire has apparently kept at the work of making its first game, […]

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Not So Massively: What we’d like to see from a...

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2025/01/16

According to the rumour mill, Blizzard is currently working on a shooter game in the StarCraft universe – again. By my counting this would mark the company’s third attempt at developing a shooter StarCraft shooter, and given past history, it’s easy to be skeptical this game will ever see the light of day. But today […]

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Once Human opens Visional Wheel servers, adjusts...

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2025/01/16

Today is a big content day for fans of survival shooter Once Human as players can now hop into Visional Wheel servers and experience some familiar former scenarios that now feature some new lunar frenzy-filled wrinkles. As NetEase’s Starry Studio previewed before, the Lunar Oracle Visional Wheel will make nighttime more dangerous yet potentially more […]

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LOTRO Legendarium: MOP’s guide to unlocking Lord of...

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2025/01/16

While Lord of the Rings Online is a tremendous MMORPG that I would recommend to anyone in a heartbeat, I won’t deny that its business model is confusing and even obtuse. With many players coming to check out LOTRO for the first time in 2025, the question that needs answering is, “What do I need to […]

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Dungeons and Dragons Online opens its 64-bit server...

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2025/01/16

As Standing Stone Games is preparing to open up new permanent 64-bit servers for Lord of the Rings Online in the near future, there are good follow-up questions about what may be in store for its other MMORPG. And while we don’t know for sure whether Dungeons and Dragons Online will ever get a 64-bit […]

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