earth and beyond

Once again we put a wrap on another year of MMORPG news, opinions, and -- most pertinent to this column -- history. In a...

Just the other day, the MOP staff was bemoaning the fact that the pickings for space sim MMOs are slim and lacking. But instead...

When you get tired of your iron-plated boots being stuck to a giant gravity ball, you may yearn to take flight into the sky...

And that's a wrap on this year in history! While everyone says farewell to 2022, here at TGA we're always looking way back at...

Not every emulator project is as popular or as well known as Star Wars Galaxies Legends or City of Heroes Homecoming. To help bring...

It has been another thrilling year of exploring the relatively unknown or forgotten lands of MMORPG history here in The Game Archaeologist. From projects...

Historically, space-bound MMORPGs have not had as easy of a go as their fantasy counterparts. For one thing, there are proportionally fewer of them...

By far, my favorite column to write here at Massively OP (and the one that always takes the longest) is The Game Archaeologist. I've...

Last December, the Massively OP 2019 Awards gave its "Best Trend" nod to the rise of rogue servers in the MMO genre. Preservation of...

Behind history are people and stories, some of them well-known and some of them obscure. It has been my mission in The Game Archaeologist...

A while back I saw a deeply underrated post on the MMORPG subreddit about mentoring systems. I don't mean the kind of systems like...

While The Game Archaeologist columns take up the most time of any project I do here at Massively OP, I absolutely love doing them...

We have been talking a lot about what we've been playing this year and what we're looking forward to in 2019 and beyond, but...

I've been thinking a lot about MMO sunsets lately, thanks to WildStar, Pirates of the Burning Sea, and even that ridiculous Free Guy movie...

It’s time to boldly go where no podcast has gone before — by exploring MMO space themes! It’s perhaps the flat-out goofiest and silliest...

When we moved over here to Massively Overpowered, some of us transplanted our long-running columns to the new space. I perhaps felt most devastated...

We don't cover the Battlefield games much on Massively OP, but this particular story caught my attention anyway because of the company and subject...

Personally, I prefer science fiction over fantasy nine times out of ten, even though most of the MMOs that grace my desktop are fantasy...

Sometimes even the most die-hard MMORPG player finds him or herself a little tired of constantly looking at the back of a head and...

In late 2012, former Wing Commander developer-slash-movie director Chris Roberts emerged from a decade of obscurity to ask for help to fund his vision...