Secret World Legends bans weekend currency exploiters
Yesterday's Secret World Legends downtime turns out to have been a serious one indeed. Players began noticing that the price of Aurum on the...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO daily quest you’ve ever done?
My husband and I are in the process of introducing the concept of household chores to our five-year-old son. Not yet having realized life...
MMO Week in Review: Secret World Legends’ soft launch (June 25, 2017)
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!
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Cloud Imperium rejects wild claim that Star Citizen is ‘owned by a bank’
The Star Citizen subreddit is aflame this weekend after bloggers on multiple sites and social media platforms, seemingly spurred on by a certain self-proclaimed...
The MOP Up: Gamescom’s big opening by Angela Merkel (June 25, 2017)
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...
Jukebox Heroes: Six goofy RuneScape tunes
Over the past year I've nearly been bested by the unclimbable mountain that is the RuneScape soundtrack. With well over 1,200 tracks currently existing...
One Shots: En garde!
It's hard to deny that one of Final Fantasy XIV's newest classes marries style and substance, particularly if you're into a certain swashbuckling aesthetic.
Skoryy...
The Daily Grind: How should studios handle overpopulated servers in MMOs?
It doesn't matter how many servers you have for your MMO, some of them are just going to be more popular than others. That's...
Secret World Legends opens to all, offers vets 3 character slots
Who needs a restricted headstart? Apparently not Secret World Legends. The reboot was initially opening its doors early to only The Secret World owners,...
Pitching a tent in Camelot Unchained
City State's Tyler Rockwell has returned again this week to helm another Camelot Unchained update, and my favorite part is the tents. Seriously, how...
The Game Archaeologist: Maze War, the first online multiplayer shooter
It is sometimes hard to know how far back to go when chronicling the history of early MMOs and their ancestors. After all, this...
Massively Overthinking: Forced socializing in MMORPGs
Massively OP Patron Jackybah has a question for this week's Massively Overthinking that's probably going to kick up some dust. He wonders whether MMO...
PSA: How to play or restore your original Secret World install
Anyone who tried to log into his or her Secret World client after the launch of the reboot yesterday found that Secret World Legends client...
The Daily Grind: Are MMO side quests on their way out?
I was recently reading Larry's column on Elder Scrolls Online's latest expansion and how he noted that there didn't seem to be a lot...
Betawatch: Dark and Light enters closed testing (June 23, 2017)
One game enters the list and another leaves. Dark and Light has started its closed testing, although there's a very small number of people...
Gloria Victis shows off the results of its combat upgrade
We don't mean to surprise you, but Gloria Victis involves a whole lot of fighting things. You have various sharp bits of metal that...
ArcheAge Begins puts a call out for Android mobile testers
ArcheAge Begins' title is never going to be as appropriate as it is right now. Gamevil's spin-off of XLGAMES' well-known MMO sandbox has just...
The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind soundtrack is now available digitally
Did you enjoy the music of The Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind? Then there's good news, because you can now fill your ears with it...
Em-8ER funds on Indiegogo and adds new stretch goals
If you were worried that Mark Kern's Em-8ER (properly pronounced "eem-eight-er" for those willing to die upon snarky hills) wouldn't fund on its latest...
SuperData May 2017: WoW recombinated, Dota 2 in the top 10, and Pokemon Go out
Almost lost in the buzz today was the release of SuperData's rundown of the global digital games market for May. You'll notice immediately that...
