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Introducing the Massively Overpowered Objectivity Guide and App
Friends, enemies, ladies, gentlemen, morphean blobs, and colours out of space, we know that the most pressing question on your mind when you read...
Why World of Warcraft’s item level scaling is really, really, dumb
This has been a very stupid week. I know this because any other week, World of Warcraft completely destroying the reason for acquiring new...
World of Warcraft implements undocumented item level scaling in patch 7.2
The reward scaling in World of Warcraft has always been pretty straightforward. At the start of the expansion, everything at max level is a...
Master x Master announces closed beta, adds City of Heroes’ Statesman
Today's good news for Master x Master fans is that the game has a closed beta coming up. The next test will be between...
World of Tanks had a superbowl commercial, and it’s… something else
So there was a World of Tanks commercial during the Superbowl. That's a thing that actually happened. And you can watch it just below,...
South Korea is airing a World of Warcraft cooking show
Remember that World of Warcraft cookbook? It's heading to the next level. South Korean television will soon feature an entire cooking show based on...
Legendary Entertainment is making an e-sports film starring Will Ferrell
Well, it's official: No one gets to act as if e-sports or video games are anything less than mainstream at this point. Legendary Entertainment,...
Albion Online shows off the Keepers of Albion
Since ancient times, the Keepers of Albion have prowled the wilds of Albion Online, rejecting civilization and venerating the wild. The latest lore video...
ArcheAge accidentally implies that it’s a pay-to-win game
"Pay-to-win" is a really tricky term to nail down; everyone has different definitions of winning, and while the broad strokes of the concept are...
World of Warships adds Steven Seagal as a six-point commander
Where do the action stars of your youth go when they can no longer single-handedly demolish an enemy navy? In Steven Seagal's case, he's...
Player fakes a suicide attempt in EVE Online as part of an extortion scheme
One of the most universal facts about most MMO communities is that we band together when one of our own is hurting or in...
Brazilian teenager accidentally dies following League of Legends loss
We have had far too many public service announcements on Massively Overpowered in recent months about things not to do around games. For example,...
Overeager Overwatch researchers hack actual accounts to find a fictional character
Account hacks happen. They're unpleasant, but they happen, and you can at least usually point to them happening for logical reasons. Your account got...
TERA adds new underwear to the cash shop, you don’t want to see it at work
Are you at work right now? If so, you probably shouldn't be reading this site anyway, your boss would be mad. But your boss...
Someone is already 110 in WoW Legion, plus faction roadblocks for old Druids
If you were a Druid eagerly looking forward to World of Warcraft: Legion who also had a particularly odd set of pre-expansion decisions, you...
TERA is offering players pigs who do in fact fly
You know all of those crazy things you said you'd do when pigs fly? Well, that's a thing that's happening. TERA has added a...
Ragnarok Clicker brings the gameplay of Ragnarok Online to the not-gameplay of clicker games
Did you ever feel like the gameplay in Ragnarok Online came down to just clicking on enemies over and over until they died? If...
Tencent reveals Transformers Online, a team-based Chinese shooter
Do you lie awake at night and think that what would really compete with Overwatch is a team-based shooter based on Transformers? Apparently, the...
Editorial: The Warcraft film is absolutely awful
A film does not have to be good to be entertaining. I hold that as a pretty firm truth. Snakes on a Plane, for...
