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To tell the truth, the whole concept of The Black Death turns me off. It's not the grim atmosphere but the seeming glee in...

Boy, it feels like we've been waiting for this for a whole year, doesn't it? World of Warcraft: Legion launched this past week, putting...

MMORPG launches seldom go to plan. Trainwrecks are inevitable. Never spend a vacation day on an MMO release date -- that's the conventional wisdom. And...

Last weekend, the blogosphere exploded over an article that essentially told the MMORPG community to shut up, sit down, and stop complaining about things...

On some level, I'm still amused by the fact that someone got held back in World of Warcraft: Legion as a direct result of...

Long ago, I used to be a two-character kind of MMORPG player. I had a main, and then later I'd make a chief alt,...

When it comes time for whatever reason to put an MMORPG to pasture, how should a studio do it? For Brian "Psychochild" Green, this...

Well, it's here. World of Warcraft: Legion has been out in the US for five hours now (more for Europeans!), which in internet time is more...

Over the weekend, Redditors began claiming that Valve is intermittently allowing people to request and be granted Steam refunds for No Man's Sky well past the...

Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! Guild...

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...

My earliest PC games were space sims, 4X games, and then, naturally, RPGs -- especially sandbox RPGs. MMORPGs seemed like a natural evolution for...

Could Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns' greatest achievement be in its architecture? Even though I haven't played it, I certainly have heard a...

We all play MMOs in different ways, and I personally tend to play to reach the top. It's no shock if I tell you...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Project Gorgon received a big quality-of-life patch this weekend. Of note, the game now offers synchronized dancing! "If three or...

Welcome back to What Are You Playing, the game where we tell you what we're playing this weekend and you tell us insert joke...

I love it when my interest in an MMO hits those occasional spikes where I'm logging in not just because it's what I do...

Depending on your definitions, Star Citizen is already pretty persistent. For example, it's already persistently crowdfunding, persistently putting out new ships for the price...

A reader named Paul recently wrote to us wondering why RNG lockboxes aren't considered gambling. Oh sure, we call them gambleboxes, but the government...

This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Patron Duane, who asks, "Do you take simple joy in MMO mechanics that are often referred...