Justin Olivetti
Global Chat: What is Daybreak thinking with H1Z1?
Daybreak's announcement earlier this month that it will be splitting H1Z1 into two games triggered a flood of responses from the MMO blogging community,...
Traverse lets you mold and shape your own planet
A tiny dev team is scurrying away on a new title called Traverse that will let players not only think big but create on...
Worlds Adrift includes US players in next playtest
Worlds Adrift said that the wait is "almost over" for the game's third playtest, although the team did not give a definitive timeline for...
Albion Online publishes its first novel, Landfall
Does your MMO have an official novel? Well, Albion Online isn't even out yet and it is breaking literary barriers with its first published...
Order and Chaos Online player distributes GM powers, havoc ensues
Imagine this scenario: An MMO player somehow gains access to a "DevBox," a special set of tools that GMs and devs can use to...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 52: Horror sloth!
Justin and Bree discuss Black Desert 's cash shop, H1Z1, Guild Wars 2, ArcheAge's laundry, Devilian, Grim Dawn, FFXIV, and TSW, with mailbag questions on voiceover localization.
Grim Dawn’s story trailer is appropriately macabre
Not every game goes to the lengths of giving your character a backstory that starts before you log in, but then again, not every...
Hostility and bounty systems arrive in Star Citizen
Are you a law-abiding space citizen who's not above partaking in some mob vigilante justice? Or are you a sneaky ne'er-do-well who wants to...
WildStar takes you on an icy tour through Arcterra
The spirit of exploration is flaming high in WildStar these days, as Carbine is preparing to unleash a new content update that includes a...
Life is Feudal adds immersion with seasons patch
How many times have you expressed (or seen expressed) the desire to watch seasons change in an MMO? That's not a feature that most...
Rokh makes the planet Mars come alive
There are so many multiplayer survival games swirling about these days that you might be forgiven for overlooking one or two. We haven't heard...
Shroud of the Avatar is an ally for player-created quests
It should be rather obvious by now that the Shroud of the Avatar dev team is just as focused on involving the community in...
Asker Online is closing down next month
Well, that did not last long. Only months after launching, Asker Online announced that it is shutting down on March 22nd.
The action MMO featured...
Blade & Soul adjusts anti-cheater measures, says server transfers are in the works
NCsoft is making a few changes to its anti-cheater software in Blade & Soul and says that its efforts to combat sneaky behavior are...
The MOP Up: PlanetSide 2 gets a promotion (February 21, 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...
Firefall loses its senior systems designer
Last Thursday the Firefall community had to bid a sad farewell to David "Cloudchaser" Severs, the senior systems designer for Red 5 Studios. Severs...
One Shots: Taking a breather
While one might get a sense that MMOs are nonstop adventures, with players shuttling to and fro on various important (and not-so-important) tasks, every...
The Game Archaeologist: 1988’s Monster
"You're in the middle of a vast hall stretching out of sight to the east and west. Strange shadows play across the high vaulted...
The Daily Grind: What’s your most and least favorite MMO biomes?
While developers are, by virtue of the job, very creative folks, there are only so many types of environments that seem to crop up...
Flamefrost Legacy attempts to capture the tabletop RPG spirit
Some of our readers are always keeping an eye open for new, out-of-the-way titles to check out. In the spirit of shining the light...