Yearly Archives: 2016
You can see further and play better in Gloria Victis than ever before
You can cite all of the fancy, flashy features in your MMO, but at the end of the day, if your game looks horrible...
The MOP Up: Richard Garriott’s new book (April 24, 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...
Magika: Wizard Wars is shutting down in July
Come this summer, there will be one less MOBA vying for your attention. Paradox announced this past week that it will be shutting down...
The Game Archaeologist: Saga of Ryzom
Every so often I get requests to cover such-and-such game in this column. These are often incredibly obscure titles, even to me, and when...
MMO Mechanics: Innovating mechanics to refresh Guild Wars 2
I usually keep MMO Mechanics quite general by looking at several games as examples to highlight my point regarding the mechanics of choice in each article,...
PAX East 2016: Guns of Icarus shows off its new ships, new guns, and new maps
How many cooperative airship piloting simulators are there in the marketplace at the moment? The answer is that there's basically just the one, and...
One Shots: Jedi to the max
Are you all the Jedi you could possibly be? If not, then subscribe to our exclusive six-week course, where we'll teach you such advanced...
PAX East 2016: Final Fantasy XIV answers questions and reveals the Palace of the Dead
If you think you've seen everything that Final Fantasy XIV has in its bag of tricks, the game's Q&A panel at PAX yesterday made it clear...
The Daily Grind: Are you ever sad when a long-awaited MMORPG expansion arrives?
We've been joking about Lord of the Rings Online never getting to Gondor, never mind Mordor, that I've become super sad that it's actually...
Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained’s beta delay (April 23, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Camelot Unchained's devs revealed that they will not make their planned target for beta. The beta phase has...
PAX East 2016: Warframe reveals fairy warframe concept, sports mode
At PAX East this weekend, Ditigal Extremes revealed a ton of incoming Warframe content, including a gorgeous new fairy warframe concept ("with razor butterflies" and...
PAX East 2016: Elder Scrolls Online’s Dark Brotherhood DLC begins PTS testing this week
From its community event at this year's PAX East, ZeniMax announced today that the recently teased Dark Brotherhood DLC lands on Elder Scrolls Online's...
The Stream Team: For the love of Black Desert levels
There are certainly plenty of things to do in Black Desert, and MassivelyOP's MJ hasn't felt any particular rush through content as she meanders...
PAX East 2016: DC Universe Online’s Xbox One trailer
Daybreak has just posted a new trailer for DC Universe Online's Xbox One release. The company announced the Xbox One edition back in January;...
Leaderboard: Will you be giving Guild Wars 2 another chance?
This week's Guild Wars 2 update has been widely welcomed by both current and past players for its broad-sweeping quality-of-life adjustments (and rollbacks) for...
The Stream Team: A frigid foray into ARK’s ice cave
Which is worse? ARK’s new swamp cave or the ice cave? MassivelyOP's MJ and the crew found death fairly quickly in the poisonous air...
EVE Fanfest 2016: Project Nova will include territorial warfare, link with EVE
At this week's EVE Fanfest 2016, CCP Games revealed its new PC first person shooter Project Nova that has risen from the ashes of console FPS DUST...
WRUP: Don’t tell me how to do things edition
Listen, there are things you don't need to tell me how to do. Don't tell me how to raise my kids. I don't have...
The Daily Grind: What are your favorite MMO dungeons?
If a theme has emerged in my 2016 gaming habits so far, it has to be my renewed love of running dungeons in MMORPGs....
Betawatch: WoW Legion is launching in August (April 22, 2016)
This week, Blizzard announced that World of Warcraft's sixth expansion, Legion, will indeed arrive this summer as planned. August 30th is the big day....
