Yearly Archives: 2016

One of the big MMO stories in 2016 was the debate and drama over the demand for certain vanilla servers in popular games. Even...

Apparently some folks are taking the relaunch of the Nostalrius servers very badly: Team Elysium, the group behind the newest World of Warcraft emulator,...

Welp, didn't see this one coming. Turbine has just announced that it's spinning off the Lord of the Rings Online and Dungeons & Dragons Online...

Since it's already December 19th, you probably already figured that the Dark and Light resurrection wasn't going to make that original "late 2016" target...

We're not there yet, but 2017 already makes me anxious. That's not going to stop it from arriving, though, however much I might want...

With December's Release 37 out of the door, you might expect Shroud of the Avatar's team to downshift for the remainder of the month....

Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best MMORPG Player Housing of 2016, which is a new award for MOP and one proposed...

Earlier this month, we got a curious press release from a new gaming studio called Cold Iron. I might have skipped over it but...

Remember when you had a fever dream recently that there was another spiritual successor to City of Heroes in the works, only this one...

There's no system in Project Gorgon that can't be made a little more weird and amusing. For example, with the winter holidays rolling around,...

We deal with a lot of rumors here, and while we generally filter out the entirely implausible ones, usually there are a lot of...

A loss of a sense of community is something many MMORPG players lament as our genre approaches two decades, whether they think communities slip away...

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! ArcheAge...

Stompy Bot's mecha shooter Heavy Gear Assault was meant to hit early access on Steam this week, but Valve has yet to usher it...

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...

This year -- like every year -- players in the comments of our award post for Most Underrated MMORPG of 2016 asked for the mean girl...

Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Most Likely to Flop in 2017 or Beyond, which was awarded to Blade & Soul last...

Ugly sweaters and rumblings of the Abominable Greench are signs that World of Warcraft's Feast of the Winter Veil is back. From now through January...

You might think you're having a bad week. You would be wrong. A bad week is getting podded in the void of space as...

The problem I have with the character creator in The Elder Scrolls Online is not that it lacks power; it's got that. My problem...