The MOP Up: Worlds Adrift makes room for PvE servers (August 12, 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...
The Game Archaeologist: City of Heroes’ launch history and the Marvel lawsuit
In our first part of this series looking back at the stupendous history of City of Heroes, we saw how the idea for this...
Pearl Abyss sees hefty revenue bump thanks to Black Desert
Pearl Abyss, the Korean developer of Black Desert, posted its Q2 2018 earnings report this past week, showing both significantly increased revenue and profits...
One Shots: Selfie school
I certainly did not have to twist readers' arms to get them to bring out a mountain of MMORPG character selfies set against interesting...
The Daily Grind: Do you consider yourself an expert on your favorite MMOs?
Expertise is a funny thing; it's the sort of thing usually best demonstrated by never claiming it but simply showing it. Most people confronted...
The Stream Team: Returning to Mu Legend for its Steam launch
It's been a very long time since Massively OP's MJ played in Mu Legend. She was there for the open beta launch, and she's...
Take a peek at the development of Shroud of the Avatar’s player-designed dungeon system
Drama seems to plague Shroud of the Avatar, but if you can look past it, there's some fun innovation going on inside Portalarium in...
Global Chat: Is it worth your time to alpha test MMOs?
Taugrim raises a very interesting question this week on his blog. Namely, is it really worth your time to alpha test MMOs these days?...
No, World of Warcraft’s warfronts won’t go live with Battle for Azeroth
One of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth's key features won't go live when the expansion launches this coming week. Blizzard announced players are...
Bless compensates for downtime, is 67% off this weekend
Neowiz is decompressing from the rollout of this past week's Assassin update in Bless, which went... more or less OK. The studio said that...
The Daily Grind: Where have you gotten bogged down in MMO play?
Probably one of my biggest bugaboos (that's a technical term) in MMO play is when I get bogged down trying to progress through a...
EVE Online overhauls a half-dozen ships and improves the starter experience
You notice how other studios, rather than scrambling away from next Tuesday's World of Warcraft expansion release, seem to be trying to compete with...
Crowfall shows off the behind-the-scenes magic of the Clusterizer
As cool as it may sound, unless you're actually working on developing Crowfall, the odds are you will never see the Clusterizer in action....
League of Legends Lead Designer Ghostcrawler moves to an unnamed project
Let's play connect-the-dots today and see if we can see a picture forming over at Riot Games, shall we? Back in July, its co-founder...
The Stream Team: Artix’s special MOP live event in AQ3D
Are you ready for a Massively OP exclusive live event in AQ3D?! MJ sure is!! She has no idea what Artix is planning, but...
Final Fantasy XIV starts its anniversary fiction
The in-game events will arrive later, but at this point it's as much of an event for Final Fantasy XIV to feature written fiction...
Star Wars Galaxies fans are working on an emulator for the game’s TCG
I haven't been making any secret of how much fun I'm having in the Star Wars Galaxies Legends emulator (and thanks so much to...
Elder Scrolls Online drops Murkmire, Wolfhunter trailers, buffs subscriber benefits
ZeniMax is dropping some good stuff at QuakeCon for players of The Elder Scrolls Online. If you're a dedicated subscriber, you're in for some...
Greed Monger delays refunds again because of crypto market dips
There's been another update in the long-running saga that is Greed Monger.
Greed Monger is easily the most infamous MMORPG Kickstarter failure to date, having raised...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s market saturation and the pull of vague memories
Here's something a little different: Usually, before I write a World of Warcraft column (or any column), my assumptions and data are pretty firm...
