Yearly Archives: 2016
Why RuneScape embraces legacy servers
One of the big MMO stories in 2016 was the debate and drama over the demand for certain vanilla servers in popular games. Even...
The new Nostalrius emulator suffered six DDOS attacks on launch day
Apparently some folks are taking the relaunch of the Nostalrius servers very badly: Team Elysium, the group behind the newest World of Warcraft emulator,...
Turbine spins LOTRO and DDO teams out to new studio, using Daybreak as publisher
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...
Dark and Light’s early access has been delayed into 2017
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...
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating about Final Fantasy XIV in 2017
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...
Shroud of the Avatar’s world grows ever larger
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 OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Best MMORPG Player Housing of 2016
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...
Cold Iron’s Craig Zinkievich on funding, the genre, and the MMO nature of the game
Earlier this month, we got a curious press release from a new gaming studio called Cold Iron. I might have skipped over it but...
Ship of Heroes shows off screenshots of Apotheosis City
Remember when you had a fever dream recently that there was another spiritual successor to City of Heroes in the works, only this one...
Project Gorgon launches a winter update as it prepares for its Indiegogo’s completion
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,...
Aeria rebuts Bless North America cancellation rumors
We deal with a lot of rumors here, and while we generally filter out the entirely implausible ones, usually there are a lot of...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG had the best community in 2016?
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...
MMO Week in Review: ArcheAge’s tumult (December 18, 2016)
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...
Grab a Heavy Gear Assault early access key from Stompy Bot and MOP
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 MOP Up: Dota 2 goes on a new journey (December 18, 2016)
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...
Leaderboard: What’s the most overrated MMORPG in 2016?
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 OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Most Likely to Flop in 2017 or Beyond
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...
World of Warcraft unwraps Winter Veil
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...
One Shots: Lost in space
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 Daily Grind: What character creators in MMORPGs frustrate you to no end?
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...
