Massively Overthinking: Considering pay-to-win MMO peripherals
MOP reader and commenter Sally Bowls recently sent along a link to an insanely awesome 34" monitor that costs more than a lot of...
WRUP: Introducing the Quintorail edition
Let me ask you something, folks. How often have you tried to take a train in this country only to find that it was...
The Daily Grind: What kind of reputation do you have in your MMO guild?
The way some players tell it, back in the olden days of MMOs, your reputation was everything. With fewer games, longer grinds, and more...
Betawatch: Sea of Thieves hits closed beta (January 26, 2018)
It was foretold, and then it happened. Sea of Thieves hit its closed beta this week with play anywhere functionality fully intact. The bad...
Snail Games introduces PixARK, heading to early access in March
So you're a Minecraft kind of soul. You like that sort-of-pixelish-but-not-really look. Your friend is an ARK: Survival Evolved junkie. She's more about dinosaurs...
Final Fantasy XIV releases the patch notes for patch 4.2: Rise of a New Sun
Calm down, Final Fantasy XIV fans; the actual patch doesn't release until Tuesday next week. But the patch notes are available right now, covering...
The Survivalist: The downside of hosting custom servers for survival games (and why we don’t do it)
After the latest guide introduced even more possible games to sink our survival teeth into, it is understandable that the question cropped up again...
Crowfall addresses randomness, streaking and deck-style random outcomes
How much time do you spend thinking about random chance? If you play video games, probably a fair amount. The designers working on Crowfall...
Choose My Adventure: Brain bug mischief in Project Gorgon
As soon as I knew I was going after something called "brain bugs" in Project Gorgon, my mind immediately jumped to images of the...
Star Wars The Old Republic devs tease February roadmap, call 2018 the year of returning companions
Ever since the Kotaku article quoting an anon BioWare dev saying that Star Wars The Old Republic's future is "up in the air" -...
World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth collectors editions, game datamining
When can we start playing allied races in World of Warcraft? Probably as soon as we can pre-purchase Battle for Azeroth, based on current...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever taken drugs in an MMORPG?
Probably my favorite screenshot in an MMO is the one I took back in 2003 or so, when my Star Wars Galaxies character was...
Pokemon Go adds more Hoenn pokemon and declares them egg-worthy
You are not getting access to all of the Hoenn-region pokemon added to Pokemon Go with the game's newest update. That's the bad news....
Neverwinter talks about the slice of life stories for masterwork crafters in Lost City of Omu
Whether you're into masterwork crafting in Neverwinter for items or just because you want to get more of a sense of the world beyond...
Dota 2 fans boycott ESL’s Facebook streaming platform over Twitch banwave
In today's edition of "who's boycotting whom now," it's Dota 2 players' turn in the spotlight!
According to Polygon, the community unrest began last week,...
Guild Chat: Should I hop MMO guilds with my guild leader?
Welcome along to another edition of Guild Chat, the column through which I join forces with the Massively Overpowered readership in order to tackle...
Leaderboard: Are you playing on Age of Conan’s new ‘saga’ server?
Age of Conan's Saga of Zath server officially launched yesterday, drawing fresh attention back to the game that Funcom maintenance-moded by proxy last year...
WoW Factor: The debate over World of Warcraft’s refer-a-friend nerf
Ah, another day and another thing to enrage people in World of Warcraft. Last time, it was that the Allied Race unlocks might (will)...
World of Warcraft lays out its class adjustment paradigm for Battle for Azeroth
When Legion was on the way, World of Warcraft had a whole series of explanations about the broad and varied changes coming to every...
Final Fantasy XIV demos new UI options for scaling dialogue and scroll wheel functions
A new Final Fantasy XIV patch doesn't just mean a whole bunch of new content and so forth; it also means new improvements to...
