Massively Overpowered

If you've been watching multiplayer action RPG Grim Dawn since it joined the Steam early access program back at the end of 2013 as we have, then February is a big month for you: The game is preparing to say farewell to early access forever. Crate Entertainment, whose developers are probably best known for multiplayer ARPG Titan Quest, have announced that...

The Secret World's recent membership status tweaks have more than a few players up in arms. A 450+ post thread on the official forums chronicles the argument: Funcom has added in-game badges as a reward for subscribers. Seems like a nice perk, right? The trouble is, some players argue, that displaying the badge isn't optional, which means that players are being...

If you've never watched Sword Art Online, here's the quick version: There's a VR-based MMO that became popular but then trapped everyone inside of the game and forced everyone to live inside of it, because anime. That's fine. A new VR MMO based off of the series is apparently going to be tested in Japan in early March. That's...

NCsoft is making a few changes to its anti-cheater software in Blade & Soul and says that its efforts to combat sneaky behavior are improving. "Gameguard is not the only anti-hack tool we have in our arsenal," the studio said, "there are many other client and server-side tools we are using to catch cheaters. We actually made a breakthrough this...

World of Warcraft's Burning Crusade was very definitely not my favorite WoW expansion, but it had some fantastic dungeons. Karazhan leaps to mind as being a superb small-raid experience, and of the many boss encounters it offered, the Opera Event stands in my memory as being one of my favorite boss fights ever. While it's a bit of a cakewalk for...

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! Cash-shop crises blew up in MMO land this week. We put up a Leaderboard poll this weekend about the growing resentment toward Black Desert's proposed cash shop being expressed on Reddit and in the official forums; the...

EVE Online's Citadel expansion is due to launch this spring, transforming the way many of us play the game through the introduction of player-owned citadels. Building and running your own space stations seems like a no-brainer for a space sandbox MMO, but until now it's been a very complicated and costly affair that usually appealed to only the most hardcore of players and corporations....

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 of it gets backlogged. That’s why there’s The MOP Up: a weekly compilation of smaller MMO stories and videos that you won’t want to miss. Seen any good MMO news? Hit us up through our tips...

The truth of the matter is that you could jump onto the test server for Dungeons & Dragons Online right now and preview Update 30 for yourself. But do you really want to do that? Do you want to spoil yourself on all of that content? Or would you rather watch the developers take a quick tour through the...

If you've been following upcoming space exploration game No Man's Sky, you've probably heard a few things about its incredibly large procedurally generated universe. Because the entire universe is generated randomly but uses the same random number generator seed for every player, everyone visiting the same star system will see identical planets even though the planets weren't explicitly designed by developers. It's...