Yearly Archives: 2018
Wildcard’s new pirate MMO Atlas has been delayed yet again
If you've been refreshing Atlas' Steam page all day today (guilty), you might have noticed that it didn't actually launch into early access as...
Tibia looks back at its major updates and events of 2018
The end of the year is the ideal time to look back at the prior year and evaluate what worked and what didn't. Tibia has...
SteamCraft is a steampunk build-your-own-machine multiplayer shooter for 2019
Steampunk aesthetics mean never having to ask why you have a steam-powered car with turrets on the sides and a gigantic Tesla coil sticking...
Fallout 76 previews upcoming features and updates of 2019
Today's Fallout 76 hotfix is officially the game's last update of 2018, but the folks at Bethesda are already looking ahead to 2019 in...
Choose My Adventure: Summarizing our MMO adventures in 2018
Sometimes I wonder how people think things work behind the scenes here at Massively Overpowered, so let me give a little peek behind the...
SWGEmu reveals costly financial mishap, but the game will continue on
There's some dark news for the original SWGEmu project this week - this'd be the Star Wars Galaxies emu that spawned most of the...
Ascent Infinite Realm teases its solo dungeons with new screenshots
Bluehole's Ascent Infinite Realm goes through these flurries of activity and then silence over here in the west as eastern testing continues. And today,...
The Massively Overpowered 2018 winter holiday roundup
It's that time again, the time for a roundup of all the winter holiday events going on in the MMO universe! The nice thing...
Elite: Dangerous raises big money for charity with a 24-hour stream
The team at Frontier Developments put on quite a show on December 17th with a bit of livestreaming. But the Elite: Dangerous crew wasn't just...
The Stream Team: Continuing Krampusnact with Secret World Legends’ latest investigation mission
Last time, Massively OP's MJ only made it through part of Secret World Legends' new Krampusnacht festivities. She had to stop at the really...
Black Desert: The Archer awakens, Grandpa Cron arrives, and Xbox One preorders are set for January 7
Life is moving fast for the new archer of Black Desert Online. It feels like only yesterday that the new class was sniping its way...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the best value going into 2019
Here we go, here we go, here we go again. This one is always an interesting column to write because there's a certain amount...
ZeniMax says 2019 will be a ‘huge year for The Elder Scrolls Online’
Elder Scrolls Online Creative Director Rich Lambert has a letter up for the game's community today, complete with a recap of the game's content...
Massively OP’s 2018 Awards: Biggest MMO Blunder of 2018
Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2018 awards continue today with our award for Biggest MMO Blunder, which was awarded to CCP's dramatic VR pullout and EVE Online layoffs...
Ashes of Creation’s Apocalypse is now expected to launch this afternoon
It's been a bit of a slow start for Ashes of Creation's Apocalypse mode, which was meant to launch yesterday following the deployment of Intrepid's new website, but as the game's Twitter account chronicled, that didn't quite happen thanks to "an issue on the deployment."
However, as of this morning the site is live and downloading of the game has begun, though the game isn't actually up just yet.
Fallout 76’s latest update fixes crash bug and item duping exploit
Bethsoft just patched in another update for Fallout 76, and it's not exactly going to light the world on fire, but it does include...
Guild Wars 2’s next living story episode ‘All or Nothing’ launches January 8th
Guild Wars 2 players won't be surprised that ArenaNet has just revealed the key details of its next living story and its trailer, given...
Daybreak’s offering a $300 lifetime sub for its stable of MMOs, and it’ll probably sell out
You had to figure Daybreak was gearing up for some sort of big sub thing, what with SSG doing it for LOTRO and DDO...
The Daily Grind: Do you start over when you come back to an MMO?
In looking over my history with MMORPGs this year, one trend leaps out at me: In pretty much every old favorite that I returned...
The day twinkle trees killed Ultima Online’s Christmas
In a pretty amusing Twitter thread in which game designers admit to goofy and horrible mistakes, Ultima Online creator Raph Koster owned up to...
