Megacorp known to MMO gamers primarily for its ownership of BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. EA has previously been the steward of Mythic Entertainment (which in turn once controlled Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot) as well as The Sims Online, Warhammer Online, and Dawngate.
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One Shots: You shall not pass unless you really, really want to
Ever since Fellowship of the Ring came out, every wanna-be wizard with a staff thinks that they can camp out on bridges and forbid...
MMO Business Roundup: Ubisoft’s latest corporate chaos and new accusations from the voice actors union
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. This week, Ubisoft's getting double the coverage because it's news so nice they're...
The Stream Team: Today, we Split Fiction!
Split Fiction might just be the most Not-So-Massively game that MassivelyOP has ever streamed: It's literally a two-player-only game, but it can be played...
Star Wars The Old Republic shows off its reward for today’s Galactic Season 8
It's time for Game Update 7.6.1 and a new galactic season called Rising Powers in Star Wars: The Old Republic, and if you assume...
Split Fiction, a new co-op adventure game from Hazelight, is out now with full crossplay
If you were one of the people who really enjoyed It Takes Two and were hoping for another game along the same lines, good...
The Daily Grind: Would a Star Wars The Old Republic progression server work?
A few years ago, it seemed like progression servers were all the rage in MMOs. And why not? They're a great way to revisit...
Warhammer Online Return of Reckoning plots more dungeons and events for the spring and summer
It would be pretty easy to assume that content for the Warhammer Online rogue server Return of Reckoning is mostly focused on the RvR...
Star Wars The Old Republic’s March update includes Andor and Skeleton Crew cosmetics
Earlier this week, Broadsword streamed a preview of Star Wars The Old Republic's 7.6.1 update, whose headline feature is Galactic Season 8, dubbed Rising...
Star Wars: The Old Republic could’ve changed EA forever if it had made billions
It's quite well-known that Star Wars: The Old Republic wasn't the World of Warcraft-toppling Godzilla that BioWare hoped it would be when the game...
One Shots: And yours are almost used up
Minimalistway is hitting us with what I think is a One Shots game debut, which never fails to tickle me. "This is the boss...
The Daily Grind: What would you say is the most exciting game studio made up of ex-Blizzard devs?
Sometimes it feels like not a month goes by without us reporting that former Blizzard developers and execs started up a new game studio...
Massively Overthinking: The things we wish we didn’t know about the MMO industry
A few weeks ago, the MOP writers were sitting around in Discord avoiding work when the subject of a certain industry website's known pay-for-play...
The reboot of Kickstarted MMO Shards Online, Legends of Aria Classic, is officially sunsetting
I'm sorry to report this morning that Legends of Aria Classic is closing its doors - again. The news comes via the game's Patreon...
Dark Age of Camelot is running classic Valentine’s Day quests alongside the Golden Lovers event
We can't let Valentine's Day slip by without mentioning at least one more event, this one in one of the most classic MMORPGs our...
Massively Overthinking: Reminiscing on 10 years of MassivelyOP
We're celebrating our Independence Day - our 10th birthday since launching as an indie site after the demise of OG Massively - so this...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO games, events, and ideas hitting the decade mark in 2025
A decade is a long time. It's kind of weird that we don't think much about games or shows or whatever hitting the decade...
Obituary: World of Warcraft and SWTOR sound artist John Kurlander has passed away
You may not be overly familiar with the name John Kurlander, but we promise you that your ears have experienced his work. Kurlander was...
Vague Patch Notes: How long do online games truly get to live?
I'm going to start this article by asking a question I don't actually want an answer to: How long has Minecraft been popular?
Objectively there...
EA is plotting Apex Legends 2.0 while scapegoating Dragon Age 4’s lack of live-service features
Last week's news that BioWare had shed a significant portion of its remaining team following Dragon Age: The Veilguard failing to meet EA's ambitious...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 504: The legacy MMO devs leave behind
Justin and Bree remember Project Gorgon's Sandra Powers, with discussion on EVE Online's roadmap, World of Warcraft's Undermine(d), No Man's Sky's and Worlds II, plus adventures in LOTRO, Project Gorgon, WoW Classic, and The Sims 4, and of course mailbag topics on removing and adding things to MMOs to make them better and identifying the major features MMOs just won't do.
