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Next year’s EVE Fanfest won’t be in Iceland, obviating your efforts to properly spell Reykjavik
Last autumn, when CCP Games began dumping assets and studios and VR holdings overboard, it also sent almost all of its EVE Online community...
Defiance 2050 delays its console closed beta event, but the PC event will go on as planned
A couple of weeks ago, Trion announced that it was prepping a big closed beta test for Defiance 2050 across all platforms - this...
The Soapbox: Three augmented reality game problems (most) MMOs don’t have – and one thing they do so much better
I'd like to think that I'm kind of a healthy gamer. While MMOs take a lot of time, the nice thing is that their...
The MOP Up: Seal Online embraces a cartoony spirit (April 15, 2018)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
EVE Fanfest 2018: Two EVE players were married by the space pope. Yep.
Of all the fascinating things the EVE Online community has embraced over the game's almost 15-year lifetime, perhaps the most bizarre is space pope...
Massively Overthinking: The best of PAX East and GDC in 2018
The past couple of weeks has been wild as we dispatched writers to GDC in San Francisco and PAX East in Boston to gather...
Here’s how to playtest Elder Scrolls Online’s Summerset chapter next week
Summerset is closer than you think! The Elder Scrolls Online team announced today that the chapter is expected to hit the test server on...
Ashes of Creation looks back at PAX East while promising a Q4 alpha
If the only thing you want to take away from the latest bit of Ashes of Creation newsletter is information you may not have...
EVE Fanfest 2018: EVE Online’s upcoming ‘Into the Abyss’ expansion sounds incredible
While player capsuleers are undoubtedly the most powerful force in EVE Online, there are some pretty scary NPCs lurking in the depths of space....
Ship of Heroes posts a timeline for the first half of 2018
With a combat alpha under its belt, the superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes turns its attention to the challenges that lay ahead. The team...
Watch EVE Fanfest 2018 live from home right now
EVE Fanfest 2018 has just kicked off here in sunny Reykjavik, and MassivelyOP is on the ground once again to bring you the latest...
EVE Fanfest 2018: EVE Online FPS Project Nova is coming ‘in months, not years’
When CCP Games first made the leap into the first person shooter market with DUST 514, things didn't exactly go to plan. The game...
Pantheon deep-dives the Black Rose Keep dungeon we toured at PAX
There's a lot to unpack in Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's April newsletter. Not only does it cover the Ratkin species from the bestiary...
PAX East 2018: An interview with the big griffon statue
Everyone knows that the various people portraying characters at PAX East are just there to portray a character. That's not who they really are....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 165: Step into the Morninglight
Justin and MJ discuss Secret World Legends, DDO, WoW, Conan Exiles, RIFT, LOTRO, TERA, Ultima Online, ArcheAge, and Star Trek Online, with mailbag questions on combat combos and recapturing former players.
PAX East 2018: Hands-on with Pantheon Rise of the Fallen
Those who have read a fair amount of my work will know that nostalgia is something I tend to rail against pretty hard. I'm...
PAX East 2018: Catching up on Legends of Aria’s improvements since the last PAX
When I saw Legends of Aria last year, right after it had dropped the Shards Online name and expanded to be a full-fledged MMORPG,...
PAX East 2018: Frostkeep’s MMO Rend has come a very long way in just one year
My experience with Rend last year felt a bit like stepping into a faerie circle and slipping into another world, sneaking up to a...
BlizzCon 2018 has a date: The weekend of November 2nd
Blizzard fans, this year's BlizzCon has a date, and that day is November 2nd and 3rd, almost three months after the launch of World...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV and the horror of the Live Letter
It's easy to miss one of the worst bits of news about the next Final Fantasy XIV Live Letter because it's tucked in the...