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The Stream Team: All That Matter in Star Trek Online
Today is her 15th Massiversary, and Massively OP's MJ will be celebrating by delving into the new mini episode in Star Trek Online. The...
MMO Business Roundup: SAG-AFTRA’s victory, Ubisoft’s shame, Embracer’s leadership
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news!
Voice actor strike: The voice actor union SAG-AFTRA, whose strike against the major...
Star Trek Online outlines updates coming to its endeavor system today, including a rank raise
If you're a high-level Star Trek Online player, you're probably very familiar with the endeavor system: It's the system that grants various daily tasks...
Star Trek Online offers discounted lifetime subs, runs multiple console events
It's always a risky proposition to go all-in on an MMO lifetime subscription, but sometimes it really pays off -- especially if the game...
Champions Online polls players about costume pieces for its 16th anniversary
September is still a few days (months?) away, but Champions Online already has its eye on that month for the occasion of its 16th...
Enter to win a Neverwinter Renegade Illusionist companion pack to celebrate the launch of Red Harvest
In celebration of last month's multiplatform launch of Neverwinter's 31st module release, aka Red Harvest and its D&D movie-themed location, publisher Arc Games has...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 518: Too much horsing around
Chris, Justin, and Bree discuss Equinox Homecoming's early access, Dune Awakening's beta, Neverwinter's Red Harvest, the former Cryptic MMOs' journey to Discord, Pax Dei's layoffs, and SWTOR's 7.7, with adventures in Palia, Lost Skies, Tower United, and Elder Scrolls Online, plus a mailbag topic on emulators we don't talk about.
DECA is closing the Star Trek Online, Champions Online, and Neverwinter forums in favor of Discord
As I type this, Another One Bites The Dust is going through my head, but I'm not talking about an MMO - just its...
Gachapwned: Examining the nature of gacha mechanics as a concept
If you mention the term "gacha" to most people, what you will get is a reaction somewhere between disgust and anger or one of...
Neverwinter’s 31st module, Red Harvest, is live on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation today
Hey Neverwinter fans, heads-up: It's launch day! Specifically, it's launch day for Red Harvest, the MMORPG's 31st and latest module, live now not just...
Star Trek Online talks Axiom, career-specific objectives, and what’s next for the narrative
Last week developer DECA talked about the recent Axiom episode for Star Trek Online and how it was taking the baton passed by Cryptic....
One Shots: The MMO grand tour
Have you ever taken a step back from your endless endgame chasing to go back through the entirety of your MMO from start to...
Star Trek Online’s new studio DECA says the Axiom episode continues Cryptic’s legacy
Have you played through Star Trek Online's newest episode yet? If you have, then you might want to check out the first part of...
Vague Patch Notes: Not every MMO mechanic you dislike is a bad one
There is a category of responses to any column about mechanics, and it came up with the recent couple of columns about level scaling,...
Perfect Ten: Early versions of MMOs that were rougher than you remember
Despite our nostalgia goggles and cries for legacy versions of MMORPGs, the real truth is that most 1.0 versions of our online games were...
Neverwinter’s D&D movie-inspired 31st module, Red Harvest, launches on PC and console May 6
Some good news for Neverwinter has just arrived in the wild: Arc Games (and dev studio DECA, we assume, though it's not mentioned anywhere...
Star Trek Online celebrates First Contact day and turns up experience rates
In-universe, First Contact Day is a big deal in Star Trek Online; it marks the day that Vulcans and Humans first met one another,...
Massively Overthinking: The things that broke us from old beloved MMORPGs
Last week, MOP's Chris and I were discussing his husband's obsession with Sea of Thieves; he runs with a set crew that generally leaves...
Champions Online, fresh off a smol UI update, introduces its new DECA community manager
Remember back in February, when DECA Games finally posted a memo to Star Trek Online fans to let them know how the transition from...
Perfect Ten: The wild MMORPGs that came out in 2011
Not every year sees equal releases in the MMORPG genre. We've had years of starvation and years of plenty. Every so often it's fun...
