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MOP Giveaway: Rosewill gaming keyboard courtesy of Newegg

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Time to win some free gaming stuff! We're pleased to present three giveaways this week thanks to our sponsor Newegg and its Rosewill store. The first...

MMO Week in Review: March 22, 2015

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered's Week in Review! The...
For my next trick, I'm making Prowl.

WRUP: Angry dot jpeg edition

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The image above is a picture of Prowl from IDW's Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye, which is an utterly great comic that you...

Betawatch: March 20, 2015

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H1Z1 this week announced and then canceled plans to charge a monthly pass for its battle royale mode; it's still happening, Smed says, but not...

Deals: Controllers, programmable keyboards from Newegg

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Last week, we told you guys about our sponsorship with software/hardware vendor Newegg. As part of that partnership, Newegg is going to be offering our...

The Daily Grind: Does story matter in MMORPGs?

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We're breaking out the Daily Grind questions offered up by some of our Kickstarter donors today with one by Kharl, who wanted to talk...

Massively Overthinking: Making MMOs ‘sticky’ without vertical progression

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Today's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter backer Jersey C, who asks, If you were asked to design an MMORPG without vertical progression...
ESO

Leaderboard: Are you playing Elder Scrolls Online this week?

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Last week I patched up Elder Scrolls Online. Remember? We chatted about how the game's launcher is an expletive that rhymes with kitty. Over...

Massively OP Podcast: Episode 6

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Justin and Bree discuss The Secret World's nerf, ArcheAge, BlizzCon 2015, Guild Wars 2, Skyforge, Crowfall, and SWTOR, with mailbag questions on playstyle focus, podcasting, and WoW tokens.

The Daily Grind: Does Guild Wars 2 need mounts?

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Let me stop you right there: Yes, I know that Guild Wars 2 kinda has mounts. It has a ridable broom and a flying...

Sword and Bored: Health buff

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Mo gets a bright idea when he realizes that MMORPG food inexplicably restores health -- and lots of it.

MMO Week in Review: March 15, 2015

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered's Week in Review! In...

The Daily Grind: What’s Funcom’s secret project?

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When Funcom's Joel Bylos casually announced this week that he was moving on from his role as game director of The Secret World to...
Make My MMO

Make My MMO: March 14, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we learned about the Kickstarter for a "MOBA type of combat game" called Descent: Underground. Yes, it's that...

WRUP: Two hundred twenty-nine

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Welcome back to What Are You Playing, the game where we tell you what we're playing this weekend and then tell you the number...

Betawatch: March 13, 2015

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Albion Online posted an infographic celebrating its winter alpha and dished on its upcoming summer alpha, which will include a major revision of the...

The Daily Grind: What constitutes an ‘action combat MMO’?

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In the course of organizing MOP's new tag database, I found myself looking for input on games to include in the "action combat" tab. I had...

Meta: Welcoming NewEgg

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Earlier this month, we welcomed the first of hopefully many sponsors to the Massively Overpowered website: NewEgg. Folks in the US especially know NewEgg as a...
Oh dang.

Leaderboard: Heavensward vs. Heart of Thorns

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Two big MMO expansions are on tap this year, and you know what that means, right? Yep, Massively OP is going to pit them...

Global Chat: MMOs as grief therapy

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We'll begin today's tour of community articles by touching on a rather somber (yet uplifting) note. Pixelkin wrote a great piece on how her...

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