Survarium patch provides more combat feedback
A small but useful patch parachuted into Survarium this past week, bringing with it improved feedback for combat encounters, technical improvements, and even more...
The MOP Up: RuneScape Chronicles’ beach party (July 17, 2016)
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...
Leaderboard: Is Pokemon GO an MMORPG?
Earlier this week, one of the founding designers of the MMORPG genre, Raph Koster, penned a blog piece arguing that alternate reality games like...
MMO Mechanics: Creating engaging crafting mechanics
I'm currently bogged down in an over-the-shoulder crafting blur, vicariously depleting gold and recommending several YouTube-approved crazy material gathering runs as I get my...
H1Z1 finally brings back your corpse as a zombie
Death isn't the end of the road for the H1Z1 population, it's merely the beginning of something very gross and uncomfortable. According to a...
One Shots: Gentlemen, to evil!
There are some subtle signs that you can look for when you're trying to gauge if you've become truly evil. Conquering small nations for...
The Daily Grind: What MMO handles active combat the best?
Action combat is a big thing for newer games. Instead of just sitting, targeting, and spamming abilities, you have to dodge hither and yon,...
Path of Exile preps chat improvements for next week
Path of Exile's chat window is about to become a little more informative, as the team is preparing a few improvements for the system...
Pixel Wars: CubeMatrix puts a full-blown voxel MMO on your mobile device
Don't be fooled by the voxels: This isn't SkySaga, Trove, or CubeWorld, but a new title entirely called Pixel Wars: Cube Matrix.
According to the...
SWTOR: Knights of the Eternal Throne confirmed for this fall
Move over Fallen Empire, Knights of the Eternal Throne is about to become the newest expansion on the Star Wars: The Old Republic block.
BioWare...
Jukebox Heroes: MMO tunes from the 1990s
I'll admit that I have a particular fondness for older video game music. I still scour the archives of NES and Genesis libraries for...
Crowfall devs talk about the Myrmidon minotaur and murder machines
What's the Crowfall team up to these days? In a new Q&AÂ video for July, the lead devs talk about the three "tracks" that the...
World of Warcraft preps Legion pre-patch for July 19, previews transmog 2.0
World of Warcraft's Legion pre-patch is on the way as promised: on July 19th, to be exact. The patch will include the new transmogrification system...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best eyecandy?
We can quibble about the quality and variety of content in MMORPGs, but I think most of us would agree that visually, online games...
Betawatch: AdventureQuest 3D steamrolls toward open beta (July 15, 2016)
You know how some titles like to linger in ill-defined test phases forever? AdventureQuest 3D doesn't want to go that route. The game is...
Darkfall: New Dawn opens its store
Darkfall: New Dawn isn't wasting any time setting up a revenue stream to tap players flocking to this reboot. The new web store, which...
Allods Online has six new regions in the works
Allods Online always seems like one of those MMORPGs where there's no shortage of frontiers to explore. When Patch 7.0.1 arrives, that frontier will...
Feast your eyes upon another World of Warcraft: Legion comic book
How are your World of Warcraft: Legion preparations coming? Everyone in the community seems to have his or her own to-do list for the expansion, and...
Star Citizen has the financial backing of 500,000 fans
While much is made of Roberts Space Industries' work on Star Citizen, perhaps much less known is the job that Turbulent has performed. This...
Black Desert revises skill awakening and reset systems
If you've been eagerly anticipating Black Desert's upcoming skill awakening system, you might want to take note of a few changes. Renamed skill add-on...
