Ship of Heroes works on its diurnal cycle, builds out missions, and deals with poaching
Yesterday, Heroic Games' Casey McGeever posted up the September to October milestones for Ship of Heroes, providing a bit of a roadmap for the...
Seed discusses the natural biases of worldbuilding and interaction
Here's a statement that should be rather uncontroversial but might be otherwise: You do not exist in a vacuum. The experiences that have shaped...
Chronicles of Elyria update shows off new art assets, progresses Searing Plague world event
Soulbound Studios is getting crafty in the latest update for its in-development MMO Chronicles of Elyria, as it displays some of the newly created...
Lord of the Rings Online’s Harnkegger Games event list announced, music contest registration open
Lord of the Rings Online's yearly Harnkegger Games are once again upon us, and the player organizers have released the list of this year's...
The Daily Grind: How could WildStar have succeeded?
Let me tell you, the upcoming demise of WildStar has me really and truly heartsick. Flawed as it was, this was a tremendous MMO...
MMO Week in Review: Wow what a slow MMO news week am I right
Remember like a year ago when we found out there was gonna be a new Lord of the Rings Online MMORPG? Oh. No, that...
The MOP Up: Champions Online’s month-long anniversary bash (September 9, 2018)
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...
Global Chat: Why Wizardry Online’s permadeath was a good idea
Here's an MMO and a feature both long since deceased: Wizardry Online and permadeath. Yet as JVT Workshop argues, it was an underappreciated feature...
EVE Evolved: What could the sale of CCP Games mean for EVE Online?
Just a few days ago, we awoke to news so unexpected that it made me check I hadn't time-traveled to April 1st: EVE Online...
Superdata has been bought by Nielsen
You all remember SuperData, right? We cover a lot of their reports about industry performance and all of that fun stuff, because we obviously...
One Shots: Chocobo chocobo revolution
Stop it, Final Fantasy XIV. Just... stop it already. Stop being so ridiculously pretty!
I don't need readers constantly shoving this game's drool-worthy art style...
The Daily Grind: How patient are you for endgame content in frontloaded MMOs?
Last week, I ran a Daily Grind asking readers about how patient they are about MMOs that take a looooong time to really hit...
Make My MMO: Crowdfunding for Shroud of the Avatar’s comic and an injured dev (September 8, 2018)
This week week in MMO crowdfunding, it's a minor miracle that anybody is paying any attention to Kickstarted games, what with all the mega...
Camelot Unchained discusses development of destructible deathmatch castle, new art assets
Development on Camelot Unchained seems to be coming along nicely, and the folks at City State Entertainment have posted a new weekly update detailing...
New World interview covers sandbox design, hosting tech, combat, death, and more
New World, Amazon's in-development MMO, has been something of a mystery until the last few weeks, but information is now coming out faster and...
LOTRO Legendarium: A new Lord of the Rings MMO enters the One Ring
It's a tale as old as time: Whenever an MMO starts getting up there in years and starting to show signs of age, you...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO character is your all-time favorite?
Here's a fun little perk of working at Massively OP: We get to choose the headers, and quite often we writers use screenshots from...
Betawatch: Ashes of Creation furthers its alpha amidst a news bomb (September 7, 2018)
So, uh, yeah. This week. You notice how the "breaking" box there is overstuffed with stories? That's because this week has just been crazy...
DragonCon 2018: Secret World Legends is finally getting a new scenario
Since the inception of scenarios back in The Secret World, there has always been a promise of more to come. And now, that promise...
SoulWorker update adds new dungeons, quests, and class advancement
Gameforge, in conjunction with developer Lion Games, has released a major new update for its post-apocalyptic anime-action MMO SoulWorker, adding a wealth of new...
