Massively Overpowered

I updated Lord of the Rings Online over the weekend, and as I was looking at the game in my Steam list, I was surprised that it showed over 400 hours logged. That's just on Steam, too, and I'm sure I have three or four times that in total because I played heavily at launch and throughout 2007, well before I...

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! BlizzCon 2015, Blizzard's annual fan convention, has come to an end, having spilled its guts on what's coming up for World of Warcraft: Legion, Diablo III, Overwatch, Hearthstone, and Heroes of the Storm. Read on for our BlizzCon...

Chinese news site 17173.com is reporting that Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns will be releasing in the country on November 20th. The launch of the expansion will be proceeded by a pre-order sale that includes all three of Heart of Thorns' editions: basic, digital deluxe, and collector's. The sale will begin on November 13th. Massively Overpowered has extensive coverage of Guild...

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. See any good MMO news? Hit us up through our tips...

Long-lived fantasy MMORPG Lineage II is coming to Steam on November 12th. The announcement post mentions exclusive Steam badges, emoticons, and trading cards. NCsoft is also adding a new server called Zaken, on which it says that both new and returning players may compete for server firsts and "the excitement of leveling together." You can add Lineage II to your...

Cloud Imperium has released its monthly development snapshot for Star Citizen. It's a high-level look at what each of the firm's studios has been doing to prep the release of Alpha 2.0, which is the "first serious look at how the puzzle pieces fit together." As opposed to previous module releases that have showcased individual portions of the game (the...

Pull up a pew and get comfortable, dear readers: It's time for another advice-filled installment of Guild Chat, my own little corner of Massively Overpowered in which I join forces with the MOP community in order to tackle some tough guild dilemmas. Pushy leaders, drama llamas, and raid team friction are nothing when we pull together to tackle the...

I don't think I could take the blow to my ego to boot up and play something called Dragomon Hunter, but then again, I am one of those refined upper-class British types whose monocle falls into my tea every time someone does something mildly inappropriate. Reader Vexia is more woman than I, as she sent in this headlining pic. "Lately,...

It's not exactly a stretch to say that Blizzard Entertainment casts a long shadow over the field of online gaming. World of Warcraft remains an absolute juggernaut of the MMO field despite its recent history of shedding subscriptions with zeal. Hearthstone seems to be everyone's favorite as-long-as-I-have-five-minutes card game. Overwatch has the interest of many people who otherwise ignore...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Infinity: Battlescape kept motoring toward its $300,000 funding goal. As of press time, the seamless sci-fi shooter had amassed over $223,000 with 12 days remaining. Infinity likely got a boost from Star Citizen frontman Chris Roberts, who posted glowingly about I-Novae's project on the front page of Star Citizen's website. The rest of this...