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Massively OP Podcast Episode 294: Butterfly in the sky, I can game twice as high
Justin and Bree discuss SWTOR, New World, WoW, City of Heroes, and LOTRO, with adventures in Torchlight III, WoW, and SWG Legends, plus a mailbag topic on working in the games industry.
City of Heroes Homecoming’s Issue 27 beta adds new story, travel changes, and enhancement overhaul
City of Heroes' Homecoming rogue server has been a bit sparse on new-content updates over the last little while; Issue 26, you'll recall, was...
Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever on the innovation of the indie MMO scene
The process of creating the MMO Ship of Heroes has apparently been enlightening to Heroic Games' CEO Casey McGeever according to an interview between...
Perfect Ten: A small sampling of literary offerings from MMOs
Salutations are in order once again for our most literate and eloquent readers of Massively Overpowered! I bid you welcome to our numerical column...
Ship of Heroes talks about its variety of missions, asks players how many hours of mission content should be at launch
Your superhero in Ship of Heroes is going to need things to do. Luckily, the developers at Heroic Games are planning on making plenty...
The Game Archaeologist: Deadlands Legends, the western MMO that never saw the light of day
The saying goes that there is nothing new under the sun. So while you probably can't write an original setting that's never been seen...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO class makes you feel overpowered?
Obviously, we here at MOP love anything overpowered -- including frappes, meme wars, and MMORPG classes. Sometimes it doesn't even take numerically superior stats...
City of Heroes’ SEGS rebuild project releases a pre-alpha version of its engine
The Super Entity Game Server (SEGS) project, which readers will recall is an attempt to rewrite the code for City of Heroes to connect...
Cryptic’s Stephen D’Angelo on City of Heroes’ lessons, Star Trek Online’s booming revenues
It's been a wild year for PWE's Cryptic Studios, as it's been busy maintaining its core MMORPGs but also working on Magic Legends, which...
City of Heroes Homecoming rogue servers kick off Halloween with today’s patch
If you miss the spooky times in City of Heroes, whether you were there for some of the first ToT teams or experienced Dr....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 290: African expedition
Justin and Bree discuss Ultima Online New Legacy, Phantasy Star Online 2's New Genesis, LOTRO's new class, WoW and BlizzConline, The Wagadu Chronicles, and Secret World Legends, with adventures in WoW, Guild Wars, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on representation in MMOs and favorite jumping puzzles.
City of Heroes: Homecoming previews Page 6 content, preps for Halloween, and shares the cost of operations
We've got a whole lot of news pouring out of the Homecoming rogue servers for City of Heroes, so let's dive right in.
First...
City of Heroes players have released a security-centric, server-inclusive launcher called Sunrise
Back in 2019, when the City of Heroes community was still squabbling over who got to be in charge of what once a copy...
City of Heroes rebuild project SEGS expects to have an alpha by the end of the year
Back in the long long ago, before last year's City of Heroes revival, there was a group trying to bring back the game not...
City of Heroes Homecoming emphasizes player-created content, bars ‘controversial political content’
City of Heroes' most popular rogue server, Homecoming, is a fount of player activity these days, and the dev team wants to make sure...
One Shots: When nerfing goes too far
We've all seen classes and gear hit with the nerf bat from time to time in MMOs -- hey, it's a fact of life!...
Massively Overthinking: How we deal with burning out of MMOs
Back in August, MOP's own Justin wrote a piece on his Bio Break blog about moderation in gaming that resonated with me. He described...
The MOP Up: EVE Echoes racks up one million players
It looks like CCP's newest mobile game is already a smash hit. According to the studio, EVE Echoes has already crossed one million players...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 284: Mommy, don’t let them take my Fortnite away
Justin and Bree discuss Final Fantasy XIV 5.3, City of Heroes Homecoming, Daybreak buying Cold Iron, WoW Shadowlands' prepatch, EVE Echoes' launch, Epic's lawsuit, and the passing of Meridian 59's Brian Grene, with adventures in Valiance Online, LOTRO, and The Sims 4, plus a mailbag topic on industry stress for devs.
Into the Super-verse: Early impressions of Valiance Online
When I heard that Valiance Online was going to be running an open beta this week to coincide with the PlayNYC convention, I knew...
