MMO Year in Review: Finding forever homes (December 2025)
We’re finishing up our tour back through 2025, one month at a time, in MassivelyOP’s MMO Year in Review today, and if these stories look...
The Stream Team: Begin the Lord of the Rings Return to Moria journey and toast Tolkien’s birthday
A new adventure begins for Massively OP’s MJ and Larry, one that descends into the deep mines of Moria. As displaced dwarves, the duo will...
MassivelyOP’s 2025 Golden Yachties: Most horrifying reward in an MMO this year
The Golden Yachties series is MassivelyOP’s annual set of fauxwards, named in honor of some guy who was convinced we are all making bank writing...
Free-to-Play MMO Ethyrial Shares Progress On Character Models and Roadmap After Fresh Game Update
The free-to-play open "alpha" MMORPG Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore has shared the contents of its latest update, as well as some updates on the game's...
Arc Raiders Matchmakes Based On How Sweaty You Are In PvP, According To Embark Studios CEO
The CEO explained in a new interview that the apocalyptic multiplayer shooter features aptness towards PvP or PvE as a considered factor in matchmaking. Go...
Noiseless Plasma Cooling May Be The Next Big Laptop Breakthrough At CES
Computer cooling primarily happens with regular old fans blowing air through a fixed heatsink assembly. This has various complexities; fans need a relatively large amount of space, and they make a lot of noise due to the mechanical action by which they move air. YPlasma thinks it has a better way: micro-plasma actuators moving ionic wind that
Podcast #850 – RTX 5090 Rising, SSDs the Next DDR5, New DDR4 Motherboards in 2026, GOG, Dumb TVs and MORE
There are FOUR lights!But besides that, we have AMD news on Redstone, their B650 chipset and so much DDR pricing and related news that you'll...
Killjoy Microsoft Shuts Down Windows 11 Activation Without An Internet Connection
Microsoft has seemingly disabled phone call activation for Windows 11, and perhaps older versions as well, making it impossible to activate Windows without an Internet connection.
This is an unwelcome development for users that want to airgap their systems and enthusiasts who want to activate older versions of Windows on retro hardware.
Fan video chronicles rampant cheating, hacking, and RMT bot behavior in Ashes of Creation
When the cat is away, the mice will play, and by “mice” we mean people who are looking to cheat their way through digital life...
Microsoft silently kills Windows and Office phone activation and forces online activation with a Microsoft account — Windows users are now herded into an online-only portal for activation
Microsoft has somehow put the cap on yet another way to circumvent its internet-powered setup process, and this time it’s on a build that they haven’t even supported for a while! Production activation via call is still listed in Microsoft’s support docs, but a new YouTube video running Windows 7 shows it now redirects you to the online portal.