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The Stream Team: I’m Brave, You Know in Guild Wars 2

With the war prep concluded, Massively OP’s MJ is heading to the front lines to meet up with Rytlock and Faren in Guild Wars 2. Scarabs must be smashed! And who better to face this pestilence than MJ, who is very brave. After all, the quest itself declares I’m Brave, You Know. Then it’s on […]
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Pirate sandbox Skull and Bones recaps β€˜ambitious step forward’ in year two, but it’s scrapping land combat

The second year of piratey naval conflict wrapped up in Skull and Bones, and Ubisoft said that it couldn’t be more pleased with how the title developed during the time. The studio posted a retrospective for Year 2’s accomplishments, including adding the Schooner, World Tiers, and the much-vaunted Faction War. β€œYear 2 was designed as […]
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Massively Overthinking: Is there a specific year of MMOs you’re glad you lived through?

This week’s Massively Overthinking is inspired directly by something MOP reader Zulika said last month in comments about Smed’s new MMOFPS. β€œMore and more I am just glad past me was around to experience MMOs starting in 2000.” OK, obviously Zulika was throwing deserved shade on some of 2025’s excesses, but let’s talk about more […]
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Elder Scrolls Online’s partially paywalled Battle for the Writhing Wall finally begins next week

All the way back in April and long before the summer’s devastating studio layoffs, ZeniMax Online Studios revealed a major cadence shift for Elder Scrolls Online that aimed to do away with the old chapter system and introduce special seasons, including one-time FOMO-ish events. The first core event of that new system is a player-vs.-wall […]
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WoW Factor: Welcome to the age of Midnight

Here’s the crazy thing: It’s October 2025, and it already feels as though World of Warcraft: The War Within is completely over at one year and one month after its launch in August 2024. Back when the Worldsoul Saga was first announced, Blizzard said that these expansions would come faster than normal β€” but I […]
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