Massively OP’s 2019 Awards: Best MMO Business Model
Massively Overpowered’s end-of-the-year 2019 awards continue today with our award for Best MMO Business Model, which was awarded to Guild Wars 2 last year. This...
No Man’s Sky introduces music creation with the ByteBeat device
Just because you're in a big lonely void of space doesn't mean you can't fill the emptiness with incredibly fresh beats. The latest patch...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best graphical appeal in 2019?
I'll have you know that fighting over MMO graphics is a time-honored tradition around here. It's a straight-up RvR showdown between the photo-realism side,...
Elite Dangerous celebrates five years with a retrospective and a celebratory Community Goal
Happy fifth birthday to Elite Dangerous! The internet spaceship sandbox is marking its latest milestone with a whole lot of looking back, some warm...
World of Warcraft brings the Feast of Winter Veil around once again
It's beginning to look a lot like red jumpsuits on Dwarves in World of Warcraft as the Feast of Winter Veil returns once again. At...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s first Patch 5.2 preview in brief
I did actually sit down for the most recent live letter, which was only halfway intentional. It's not like I didn't want to hear...
EVE Online details Triglavian recruitment tactics, High-Sec fights, and holiday events
For those of us who view events in EVE Online as more interesting to watch than actually participate in, then the events outlined in...
Massively OP’s 2019 Awards: Biggest MMO Blunder
Massively Overpowered’s end-of-the-year 2019 awards continue today with our award for Biggest MMO Blunder, which was awarded to Blizzard's Diablo Immortal disaster last year. This...
Final Fantasy XIV touts 18 million registered users during its special 14-hour broadcast
It's not a secret that Final Fantasy XIV is doing very well for itself, especially in light of one of its most popular expansions...
Activision Blizzard Media is launching a new player research community called King’s Council
So this is something new. Activision Blizzard Media has announced that it's forming a new player research community composed of its most active and...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offered the best PvP experience in 2019?
You might recall that in 2018, we swapped out our award for best PvP MMORPG. Neither our writers nor our readers in the years...
RuneScape discusses initiatives to monitor extreme player spending as part of a ‘duty of care’
A bit of backstory here: In September of this year, a Parliamentary report on addictive technologies like gaming monetization pointed to the case of...
Battle Bards Episode 158: Winter returns
Do you feel a little… frozen this winter season? Winter is something amazing to behold, especially when video game composers attempt to capture its unique magic...
Massively OP’s 2019 Awards: Best MMO Player Housing
Massively Overpowered’s end-of-the-year 2019 awards continue today with our award for Best MMO Player Housing, which was awarded to EverQuest II and RIFT last year....
Astellia reaffirms commitment to western version, may even rescue Korean players
Last week's news about Astellia Online's impending shutdown in its native Korea likely put a lot of fans on edge, especially since we've seen...
One Shots: An epic year
Every one of us deserves to look and feel a bit epic from time to time in MMORPGs, even if it's all in our...
The Daily Grind: What bit of MMO lore bothers you more than it probably should?
Pandaren in World of Warcraft have always bothered me. Not because the expansion that introduced them was bad (it was certainly better than the expansions...
Massively OP’s 2019 Awards: Not-So-Massively Game of the Year
Massively Overpowered’s end-of-the-year 2019 awards continue today with our award for Not-So-Massively Game of the Year, which was awarded to Warframe last year. The games...
WRUP: Places where the hag’s curse afflicts me not edition
The hag did curse me, o my kinsfolk, but forsooth, I outsmarted her once again! With a wizened finger she did point and proclaim...
Daybreak is shutting PlanetSide Arena down in January 2020
Fans of PlanetSide Arena will want to get their last fun in with the title over the next month, as Daybreak Executive Producer Andy...
