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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...

Even my most casual acquaintance will always know two things about me: that I have more hair than is healthy for a human male...

Behind you, it's totally dark and the way has closed off. There's simply no going back. Up ahead, everything is in shadows. You creep...

All right, we've had just about a month of 2016 now, and I'm writing this on my birthday. Odds are good that I'm going...

Hello, friends, and welcome to the penultimate installment of Choose My Adventure: Shroud of the Avatar. Last week, in addition to giving the game's...

If you've listened to Massively's staff and readers talk about Star Wars Galaxies a little bit, you might come away with the impression that...

One of the great things about the EVE Online soundtrack, other than its perplexing popularity despite being mostly an ambient synth score, is that...

One of the recurring gamer complaints about Star Wars: The Old Republic is that it's becoming less and less an MMORPG over time. With Knights of the...

The next expansion for Final Fantasy XIV will be announced this year. We all know it. I suppose there's a chance it won't happen,...

In the last edition of MMO Mechanics, I looked back on 2015 and the mechanics I managed to squeeze into the column: We looked...

I love me a good in-game marketplace. It always makes me think of commerce, of adventure, and of clashing worlds. Too bad we're usually...

As graphical MMOs took off in the 1990s with the advent of games like Neverwinter Nights, The Realm, and Ultima Online, many of them...

Here's a fun thought exercise for you all: explain the differences between Fire Mages and Destruction Warlocks in World of Warcraft. But before you...

I've seen a lot of desperate requests in my day in which players are asking for games outside of the normal sphere of popularity...

We've looked back at 2015 for the launched games EverQuest and EverQuest II, the long-lasting beta of Landmark, and the MIA-and-presumed-dead (by some) ...

Hello friends, and welcome to the next installment of the Shroud of the Avatar edition of Choose My Adventure. Last week, as I'm sure...

Guild Wars 2 Game Director Colin Johanson dropped a massive amount of information about the direction development will take in the first quarter of 2016...

I can’t help but attempt to find some of the most efficient ways to make credits in Star Wars: The Old Republic. I have...

There's no question in my mind that Final Fantasy XIV is still one of my favorite games of all time. It certainly doesn't lack...

In the previous edition of EVE Evolved, I looked back at some of the big highlights EVE Online throughout 2015. It was a year that revolutionised...