The Stream Team: Testing the Will to Live Online
Do you have Will to Live Online? Massively OP's MJ does! And she's willing to see how long her will actually keeps her alive...
France’s gambling authority condemns but does not ban lockboxes
The international community is becoming aware of the problems of lootboxes, and that means that laws are being formed in response to the business...
Fractured is just over 40% funded as the developers show off more of the game
The earliest moments of a Kickstarter can be the most nail-biting, as doing well early on can often determine whether or not the project...
Pokemon-inspired MMORPG Temtem just funded on Kickstarter with over half a million bucks
Temtem has just fully funded on Kickstarter to the tune of just about $573,919, with 11,715 backers (the counts will keep fluctuating for a...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s beast tribes ranked, the middle rankings
We're continuing our tour through the beast tribes of Final Fantasy XIV, and as I move through these rankings I can't help but notice...
Star Citizen’s 3.2 quarterly alpha update is fully live, with new ships, mining, and cash-shop features
Star Citizen's alpha 3.2 has finally and formally released to all comers, CIG announced this weekend.
"In the new patch, Star Citizen players can use...
Interview: Neowiz on Bless Online’s tech, class balance, gems, PvP, and more
Neowiz’s Bless has been the subject of much chatter lately (not least of all my own), with its troubled, let's say, launch raising a...
Online games are avenues for hate group recruitment, according to former white supremacist leader
Playing a game of linking awful online activities to white supremacist movements is like the worst possible variant of the old Six Degrees of...
Ship of Heroes shows off its female soldier armor
It would be unfair to say that superhero MMOs are based entirely on the strength of their costume creation, but that costume creation is...
Todd Howard blames Fallout 76’s lack of cross-platform play on Sony
The reason you won't be able to play Fallout 76 with your friends on consoles is because of Sony, according to Bethesda studio director...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best user interface?
In the comments of my last Daily Grind about Star Wars Galaxies, there erupted a lively debate about the game's user interface in the...
MMO Week in Review: Praise Joko (July 1, 2018)
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!
This...
Square Enix scoops up Boundless, setting it up for a late 2018 launch
It's been a while since we last caught up with Boundless, that quirky voxel sandbox that might be better known by its former title,...
The MOP Up: EverQuest II’s scorched sky policy (July 1, 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...
Make My MMO: Fractured and TemTem work Kickstarter as Elite, SOTA, and Aria post big updates (July 1, 2018)
This week in MMO crowdfunding is one of the biggest ever for this little subgenre, make no mistake. TemTem is about to fund. Fractured's Kickstarter...
World of Warcraft shows off its War Mode benefits
It seems only fair that World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth will give players a bit more reason to go to war. So it...
Global Chat: A starting point for WoW Classic
The recent announcement of WoW Classic's starting point -- Patch 1.12 -- started to make the prospect of this legacy server a lot more...
Elder Scrolls Online shares the making of the mighty gryphon
Fun fact: Elder Scrolls Online's gryphon is only found one place in the game, and that's on its brand-new island of Summerset. Players who...
One Shots: Better virtual homes and gardens
Lately I've been overdosing on some serious Sims 4 time (blame the Seasons expansion announcement for this!) and indulging in my long-standing passion for...
The Daily Grind: Are MMO collector’s editions worth it?
The allure of the collector's edition has always been a strange one. I remember when it started, of course, when you could get the...
