The MOP Up: Final Fantasy XI expands its wardrobe (July 3, 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...
Darkfall: New Dawn launches its public InDev server
One of the two Darkfall reboots has sort of won the race to release, as New Dawn announced this past week that it has...
Guild Chat: Successfully merging MMORPG guilds
Welcome along to Guild Chat, the column in which we gather together to help a reader in need solve his or her guild-related quandary....
One Shots: Victory pose
It's an MMO tradition: When you down a particularly nasty boss, you and your party gathers around the corpse, joins hands, and sings about...
The Daily Grind: What do you collect in MMOs?
At its heart, every single MMO is a game about collecting things. Most games have a number of very obvious things to collect; collect...
The Game Archaeologist: Dark Age of Camelot
Today, we take a trip to England, but not the England of our timeline. No, this is the England-That-Could-Have-Been, the England of King Arthur,...
Daybreak bans, unbans thousands of third-party key purchasers
If you bought and activated a key for EverQuest, DC Universe Online, PlanetSide 2, EverQuest II, or a Krono subscription from a third-party reseller, you...
Aeria Games lays off over 100 employees
Aeria Games has laid off around a number of staff following the planned merger with fellow games company Gamigo, Gamasutra is reporting. According to the site's source,...
The Daily Grind: Does your character have a backstory?
One thing that greatly bugs me about MMORPG character creation is how little thought that these games give into providing any sort of backstory...
Betawatch: Riders of Icarus moves into head start (July 1, 2016)
Riders of Icarus has not launched yet; it's in head start. Yes, head start before open beta, rather than before, like, launch or something....
Aion launches Echoes of Eternity on July 13th
The Tower of Eternity is a big deal in Aion's lore. One could even describe it as the nexus around which the rest of...
The newest ECO patch adds food, buildings, and power
ECO's alpha 4 update is now live, and boy is it a major patch for the upcoming sandbox. Several major systems have been added...
Vindictus offers players a jump-start to 75 as it prepares for Delia
If you've been away from Vindictus for a while, you might be wondering what's going on with the game. The answer is that it's...
Check out all of the housing items coming in RIFT 3.7
We already know that RIFT's 3.7 update is trotting out a lot of new content in addition to the return of Summerfest, but what...
The Stream Team: Looking at Landmark’s new appearance pack
You can't preview Landmark's new fantasy appearance pack before buying, but MassivelyOP's MJ can offer you the next best thing: She'll show off the...
Star Trek Online shows off the contents of the Kelvin lockbox
The Kelvin timeline is edging its way into Star Trek Online, but only in little ways here and there. There are incursions from the...
WoW Factor: The hope I have for Legion
Every week, in Final Fantasy XI, the three main player nations are competing in a form of passive PvP known as conquest. The nation...
Star Citizen’s 100th Around the Verse highlights the female avatar
The 100th episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse landed last night, kicked off by some incredible in-game dogfighting footage from a fan. The...
Guild Wars 2 considers skill splitting to balance PvE and PvP
If you've ever played a PvE MMORPG that had to balance classes, stats, and skills around PvP -- or vice versa -- then you...
Black Desert publisher Daum EU rebrands as Kakao
Back in April, we wrote about the company structure behind Black Desert publisher Daum, which is owned by South Korea's Kakao, which also owns Nzin,...
