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Riot co-founder asks the Twitterverse whether it should build an MMO
In today's installment of Was This A Joke Or Not Theater, it seems that the co-founder of Riot Games (maker of League of Legends,...
Occupy White Walls is heading to Steam
Good news for cans of art curation, strange MMOs, or early access titles in general. The singularly unusual MMO Occupy White Walls is on...
Worlds Adrift will be launching its test server soon
Test servers! They're a great way to get a peek at new content or to actually hammer through any major game-breaking bugs that might...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 179: MMO parenting fails
Justin and Bree discuss Star Wars Galaxies Legends, World of Warcraft, Elite Dangerous, LOTRO's Weatherstock, Trion's layoffs, No Man's Sky's multiplayer, DDO, and Wizard 101 updates, with mailbag entries on how to start an MMO blog and spooky stuff in Guild Wars 2.
Monster Hunter World is running a championship event this weekend
One of the core parts of Monster Hunter World (and every title in the franchise) is that it usually doesn't matter how you take...
The War of Thorns starts today in World of Warcraft
All right, champions, time to run down our list for what we need to get done before World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is...
PlanetSide 2 is testing a patch with some potential big backend bugs
The next patch for PlanetSide 2 is up for testing now, and it doesn't have a huge list of changes... but you may want...
World of Warcraft drops lots and lots of dungeon damage in a hotfix
If you're going to read through the latest set of pre-patch hotfixes for World of Warcraft, we hope you enjoy the phrase "damage has...
Final Fantasy XIV plans major revisions to role actions and housing status in 4.4
The official translation for the most recent Final Fantasy XIV live letter is here, and it contains some pretty big changes for the game...
Warframe shows off new environments and the Revenant warframe on a stream
You can rewatch the entirety of the latest Warframe developer livestream if you want to, but the nice thing is that the developers understand...
Absolver shows off its upcoming free expansion, Downfall
It's been quiet on the Absolver ranch for a while after the development team spent the early part of the year working on refining...
World of Warcraft kicks off Warbringers with a Jaina short
Jaina Proudmoore has been through a lot in the timeline of World of Warcraft alone, but her appearance in the first Warbringers short is...
The MOP Up: Gnomeland Security orders EQ2’s Tinkerfest (July 22, 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...
Fortnite’s Playground mode struggled due to matchmaking server stress
Some limited-time modes in Fortnite are successful and some aren't, but the Playground mode was notable in that its issues had nothing to do...
Otherland plans a new character type to experience an upcoming short story by Tad Williams
Tad Williams, the author of the original Otherland quadrology, has written a new novella in that world. What does this mean for players of...
Crowfall improves performance by changing terrain
It's far too early in Crowfall's testing to worry about optimizing the game's frame rate and overall performance, but there's a difference between "optimizing"...
OrbusVR hosts another free weekend starting today
We should warn prospective players of OrbusVR ahead of time that the game's new free weekend will not include a free VR headset. If...
EVE Online is planning to weaken Force Auxiliaries
It's just too easy for Force Auxiliaries to heal other ships right now in EVE Online. That's the reason behind the balance proposal put...
World of Warcraft answers pressing prepatch questions in its latest video Q&A
The prepatch for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is out now, but the expansion is still a bit further off, so players have...
Overwatch is performing a little surgery on its healers and planning another free PC weekend
Healers are important in Overwatch, but they also have the potential to get out of hand. Sure, it's good to be able to patch...
