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Blade & Soul improves items with its anniversary update
The anniversary update for Blade & Soul brings with it, well, an anniversary event. But it also brings a number of other system changes...
TERA doubles and triples rewards this weekend
You know how parts of the inhabited world are freezing into a solid mass of glacial ice this week? That is all the excuse...
DC Universe Online brings back its anniversary event with a Krypto base pet
As one year passes into the next, DC Universe Online gets to celebrate another anniversary, and this time around it's bringing in a beloved...
Blade & Soul celebrates its second anniversary with a new costume
Congratulations are in order for Blade & Soul as it celebrates its second year of operation, and as is most often the case with...
Choose My Adventure Year in Review: DC Universe Online, Shroud of the Avatar, Guild Wars 2, and Secret World Legends
As our review of the past year of Choose My Adventure rolls onward (a bit longer than originally planned), we enter what I think...
The Stream Team: Seasons Greedings in DCUO
Are you sad that Christmas is over? Well, the season isn't! And you can still have super holiday fun in DCUO. The Seasons Greedings...
Jukebox Heroes: MMO carols for your gaming joy
If someone -- and we are not necessarily suggesting you -- were to create an MMO Christmas carol album, what songs would be included?...
The ultimate guide to The Game Archaeologist’s MMO archives
When we moved over here to Massively Overpowered, some of us transplanted our long-running columns to the new space. I perhaps felt most devastated...
TERA’s class awakening system goes live in Korea
Have you ever noticed that eastern MMOs tend to feature "awakening" systems that are mostly absent in western games? It's an interesting concept that...
Funcom is launching a ‘saga server’ specialty shard for Age of Conan called Saga of Zath
So much for maintenance mode: It appears that Funcom has plans yet for Age of Conan, if the studio's email to players and post...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the best value at the start of 2018
Let's talk about value. A couple of weeks back, I did an article on the healthiest games at the end of the year; today,...
One Shots: Thumbs up for justice
Even when humanity is on the brink of destruction, even when all hope is lost, it's good to know that people will still be...
TERA’s December update brings back the Broken Prison
The December patch for TERA has arrived, and it's brought back the Broken Prison. Yes, it's returning it for store credit, because it's broken...
Christmas happenings in DCUO, Overwatch, Worlds Adrift, and Neverwinter
Faster than the snow can come down and the heating bills go up are all of the holiday events that are streaming into, well,...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 148: Vampires, kobolds, and pirates
Justin and Bree discuss MOP's December awards, DDO, Secret World Legends, Path of Exile, Hearthstone, Sea of Thieves, RIFT, and Blade and Soul, with mailbag questions on returning to MMOs and love for Champs Online.
Anarchy Online and Age of Conan host an arrested development sale
Just because an MMORPG's development has been put into suspended animation doesn't mean that profit still can't be made! To wit, check out Funcom's...
TERA starts its technical console test on December 14
So, why haven't we gotten a lot of news about the TERA console version? Product manager Matt Denomme has put forth a new video...
The Humble Bundle for the holidays is full of MMO goodness, including Guild Wars 2, Neverwinter, and Blade & Soul
So here's how the latest Humble Bundle is working. Drop $35 on the bundle and all of your money goes to charity, and you...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2017
Think of all the wacky things devs have said in public in front of gamers and journalists this year.
Now imagine what gets said behind...
TERA hosts first PlayStation 4 public demo this week
So what do you think about TERA's prospects as a console MMORPG after hearing that it is coming to the PlayStation 4? It seems...
