Massively OP Podcast Episode 64: To boldly return
Justin and Bree discuss Star Trek Online, Chronicles of Elyria, Marvel Heroes, WildStar, TERA, and LOTRO, plus a mailbag question on metacritic for MMOs.
PayPal ends chargeback protection for crowdfunding donations
If you've been using PayPal to chargeback your donations to crowdfunding campaigns, listen up: Those days are coming to an end. PayPal has announced...
Empyrean is building ‘MMOs you can beat’
Empyrean Interactive is coining a new acronym this season: PCA, which stands for persistent cooperative adventure, a "radically different" take on the MMO genre.
Studio...
The MOP Up: Setting a VR world record (May 8, 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...
Make My MMO: Chronicles of Elyria might be the biggest MMO Kickstarter we’ll see all year (May 7, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, the story-driven MMORPG Chronicles of Elyria stormed Kickstarter Keep and is still going strong. It raised a third of...
Betawatch: Chronicles of Elyria racks up the funding (May 6, 2016)
On May 3rd, Chronicles of Elyria started its Kickstarter campaign. On May 4th, the developers were already hitting significant funding milestones. On May 6th,...
Marvel Heroes’ Captain America: Civil War promo is live (so get your free hero)
It's time to get your free Iron Man or Captain America in Marvel Heroes!
As part of its massive Captain America: Civil War promotion, Gazillion has...
Chronicles of Elyria moves past the 50% mark with a reward correction
It seems like it was just a couple of days ago when we were writing about Chronicles of Elyria hitting a funding milestone, chiefly...
EVE Online Capsuleer Day birthday video, unexpected freebie weekend restrictions
Even as trial players are pouring into EVE Online to enjoy the free weekend on Steam, some are having difficulty taking advantage of this...
PSA: Your last day to grab a Tree of Savior founder DLC pack is approaching
If you were still hoping to pick up some founder DLC for Tree of Savior before the launch, heads up: IMCGames has announced that...
Activision-Blizzard Q1 2016: Activision-Blizzard posts results ahead of WoW Legion, Overwatch
Activision-Blizzard's first quarter 2016 financial report just hit the internet, and the company is declaring "better-than-expected" financial results.
"For the quarter ended March 31, 2016,...
Pantheon’s Visionary Realms hires more developers
The Pantheon team is a bigger one today, as Visionary Realms has announced that it's taken on five new members for the development team --...
Atlas Reactor switches from a free-to-play to buy-to-play model
Trion has decided to launch Atlas Reactor as a buy-to-play game.
"During Closed Beta, we’ve been figuring out how to best tune our Free to...
Mars-themed survival sandbox ROKH launches Kickstarter campaign
Darewise Entertainment has officially launched the Kickstarter for survival sandbox ROKH today. The game allows players a freeform sandbox experience surviving on an eerily...
EverQuesting: The gaffe of gating EverQuest II’s content behind a sub
With last week's release of GU100 in EverQuest II, an interesting conversation reared its head again -- a not necessarily flattering one for Daybreak. While...
Crowfall’s ‘universe’ plan could mean regionalized servers
"PvP is the universal language of gaming," says Crowfall studio ArtCraft in a new blog post last night. "Killing other players is a transcendent...
Chronicles of Elyria Kickstarter hits nearly a third of its funding in less than 24 hours
What do you get when you promise an MMORPG with aging, permanent death, offspring, and a destructible world? Apparently, you get $270,000 of funding...
Diablo III adds its five-year sword as a transmog reward
How long do you have to work at your current job before you get a sword? If you worked for Blizzard Entertainment, the answer...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 63: Leisure suit Larry
Justin and Larry discuss pristine WoW servers, TSW, Trove, Champs Online, SWTOR, lockboxes, and birthdays in CoH, LOTRO, and Guild Wars.
Chronicles of Elyria’s Kickstarter is now live
The Kickstarter for Chronicles of Elyria has just gone live. Soulbound Studios' goal won't surprise anyone as the company told followers in March that it would...
