Yearly Archives: 2016
The Daily Grind: Does your MMO playstyle track with your age and gender?
Gaming research firm Quantic Foundry posted a new blog last week revealing the results of its surveys cross-referencing gender, age, and playstyle in video...
The Stream Team: Unlocking Marvel Heroes’ Pirate Deadpool team up
One of the last things Massively OP's MJ needs to do to be ready for Marvel Heroes' Cosmic Trial on Storm is to acquire the...
Nexon pumps out a half-dozen new mobile games in Korea
Nexon is continuing its assault on the mobile games market with a planned release of a half-dozen titles this fall in Korea and China....
Vikki and Momo meet the tengu in Guild Wars 2’s latest lore piece
Still following the adventures of bespectackled Asuran gal Vikki and her not-really-a-pink-moa Momo? Guild Wars 2's writers have delivered another installment of her story...
Neverwinter introduces sailing and deep sea fishing for its next update
Neverwinter's "largest zone yet" might also be one of its more unusual areas in terms of navigation and interaction. As the name implies, the...
Skyforge simplifies Pantheons, pushes the Outlaw live
Skyforge's simplification with Ascension continues. First it was operations, then currencies. Next up is Pantheons, which have gotten a once-over to both simplify them...
World of Warcraft is bringing in new fishing bobbers with patch 7.1
World of Warcraft has decided on its primary competition: Any other video game featuring fishing. Sure, there may be some other game that's out...
The Elder Scrolls Online wants to send you to Skyrim or Elsweyr
It would have been all too easy for gamers to have missed it amidst the One Tamriel launch hubbub this week, but The Elder...
Pokemon Go blocks third-party apps again, buffs gym training
Just ahead of the weekend, Niantic announced some tweaks to Pokemon Go's gym training system. "In an upcoming version of Pokémon GO, when training...
Multiplayer Wasteland 3 has already hit its $2.75M Fig crowdfunding goal
Wasteland 3, the latest sequel for classic RPG Wasteland and the first multiplayer edition in the series, has successfully reached its baseline crowdfunding goal...
EVE Online’s free-to-play switch, engineering complexes arrive with Ascension on November 8
EVE Online's world-changing Ascension update has been formally dated: November 8th. That just a week after the company will close out the EVE Vegas convention...
Rumor: Overwatch’s Sombra and a new PvE mode have been uncovered
Who is Sombra in Overwatch? In a way, you could say that we're all Sombra, but that statement wouldn't make any sense. A more...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV patch 3.4 in review, continued
There's never really a good splitting point when discussing Final Fantasy XIV patches. They always cover so much ground with features and additions that...
H1Z1: Just Survive’s new general manager offers greetings and hope
It's no secret that H1Z1 has been strongly favoring its PvP edition, King of the Kill, in development and publicity ever since the game split...
Be a man in Worlds Adrift
He may be swift as a coursing river, with all the force of a great typhoon, but he's been MIA in Worlds Adrift. Who?...
World of Warcraft is revamping its Blade’s Edge Arena PvP map
Blizzard is wrapping up a gift for its World of Warcraft PvP community: a revamped arena map that's ready to be sullied and defiled...
Lord of the Rings Online goes up to the front door of Mordor and knocks
An event nine years in the making is about to unfold in Lord of the Rings Online: Players will finally cross the border of...
Star Citizen: CitizenCon recap and Squadron 42 delay
Star Citizen's rolled out its massive CitizenCon finale last night in LA, with multiple Cloud Imperium reps hitting the stage during the presentation to talk...
The Daily Grind: What business model do you want to see for Amazon’s New World?
Following the announcement that Amazon Game Studios is working on multiple online games, one of them a massively multiplayer sandbox called New World, players...
MMO Week in Review: One Tamriel, CitizenCon, and KOTET (October 9, 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!
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