MJ Guthrie
Community Manager
When not immersed in her favorite virtual worlds, MJ can be found hanging out with her family, reading, coaching/playing sports, writing fiction, singing, and dabbling in graphic design (in random order, depending on mood and season). Her favorite part of MMOs? Observing the dynamics of virtual communities. That psychology degree has to come in handy somewhere, doesn't it?
MJ's Massively Overpowered adventures can be found many places: She investigates Secret World Legends/The Secret World's conspiracies in Chaos Theory, chronicles the EverQuest franchise in EverQuesting, practices survival in many sandboxes with The Survivalist, and livestreams for the Stream Team.
Personal blog: Looking for ShiniesTwitter: @MJ_Guthrie
PAX West 2017: SMITE’s new conquest map, Paladins Strike, and the fate of SMITE Rivals
Just because SMITE and Paladins weren't available to play at PAX West doesn't mean that there wasn't stuff to learn about the games from Hi-Rez!
I...
PAX West 2017: Hand of the Gods’ Japanese pantheon and the possibility of 2v2
While the full Hi-Rez portfolio wasn't in attendance at PAX West, Hand of the Gods was on-hand with a fan tournament as well as...
The Stream Team: A look at life after the big ArcheAge server merges + giveaway
It finally happened: Massively OP's MJ was uprooted from her ArcheAge server of over three years and tossed onto a new world with a...
PAX West 2017: A closer look at H1Z1 King of the Kill’s combat practice
If you've been away from H1Z1 for a long time, you need to known that Daybreak's been making it easier to get back into...
PAX West 2017: Life and death in Digital Extremes’ new MMO Survived By
While there were plenty of established games on hand at PAX West 2017, there were also a few new ones offering players a taste...
PAX West 2017: How RIFT is making player exploration worth the effort
Although much of the RIFT demo at PAX West focused on showing off the Celestial Storm update, it was another aspect that captured my...
PAX West 2017: Ashes of Creation’s combat, crowdfunding, characters, and the infamous hat
You don't have to be a massive MMO studio to have a big showing at PAX West - Intrepid Studios proved that. The indie studio...
PAX West 2017: Playing Kritika Online’s upcoming Psion class in Shattered Table
En Masse recently introduced the newest class coming to Kritika Online, and while visiting the studio's offices during PAX West 2017, I was able...
PAX West 2017: Taking ‘control’ of TERA on console
It's all about the controller: My En Masse Entertainment PAX West office visit last weekend included a hands-on with TERA on console.
Now, I have...
The Stream Team: Fighting through Secret World Legends’ Darkness War dungeon
Before Massively OP's MJ can say see ya later to Secret World Legends' Blue Mountain, she needs to take one more trip into the...
PAX West 2017: Taking a closer look at En Masse’s Closers
When I visited the En Masse offices during PAX West, it was a crash course in learning how to use a controller -- which...
PAX West 2017: Hands-on with Amazing Eternals
If I had to pick a PAX West booth to give an award to for sheer fun factor, it would go to Digital Extremes’...
PAX West 2017: Trion’s PvE MMO shooter Defiance deserves a second look
I admit that before PAX West 2017, I hadn't logged into Defiance in a long, long time. I couldn't even say how long. Even...
PAX West 2017: Hands-on with Dauntless’ new behemoth
Although I'd recently played a bit of Dauntless, I was looking forward to my hands-on at PAX West. That's because I was primed to...
PAX West 2017: Ship of Heroes on exploration, community, and recapturing the magic of City of Heroes
Sometimes MMORPG players might get the feeling that game companies will let just about anything slide in order to keep the most revenue streaming...
PAX West 2017: Total War Arena’s hounds of war and World of Tanks’ war stories
When you think about Wargaming, you don't really think about characters or troops -- you think about war machines. But Total War: Arena's inclusion...
PAX West 2017: Hands-on with Amazon’s Breakaway
When I first went for my hands-on appointment to try out Amazon Game Studios' upcoming mythological sports brawler Breakaway at PAX West, I didn't...
PAX West 2017: Dual Universe demos its persistent, seamless, sandbox universe
If you were hoping that another title would pick up the idea of a voxel world and run with it, you're getting your wish....
PAX West 2017: Atlas Reactor’s next freelancers are a hamster and a dino
Atlas Reactor has come a long way since it first opened its doors. When I very first tried the alpha back in February, there...
PAX West 2017: Trove’s next big patch will focus on clubs
While most of the focus at PAX West 2017 for Trove was on the Eclipse expansion that just released (with its new Atlas, Shadow...
