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Tera M is not friendly to free players in its Korean version
Eager to have all of the gameplay of TERA in the palm of your hand with TERA M? You might want to be a...
Vindictus introduces the girl with the dragon spine
If there is one thing that we have learned about Korean MMOs, it's that the smaller the girl, the bigger the weapon she carries....
Blade & Soul’s Dawn of the Lost Continent launches today (and it has a flying pirate ship)
Blade & Soul's biggest update ever is live today - or will be this afternoon once the servers are back from maintenance tonight!
As we've...
Jukebox Heroes: Kritika Online’s soundtrack
It's kind of a sad commentary on 2017 that Kritika Online is one of the most significant MMORPGs to launch during the calendar year....
The Game Archaeologist: Vanguard Saga of Heroes
The significance of Vanguard's development, release, long-running drama, second chance, and eventual closure should be of great interest not just to game historians but...
TERA deals out free Gunner gear, character slots, and weekend boom boxes
Is it too early to open your presents? TERA says it's OK, so if Santa gets upset, we're totally pointing fingers.
The action MMO pushed...
Blade & Soul’s Dawn of the Lost Continent revamps the wardrobe, adds personal damage meters
Arrrrr you ready for Blade & Soul's "largest update" ever? NCsoft's been teasing next week's Dawn of the Lost Continent since the beginning of...
Bluehole’s CEO on how Ascent: Infinite Realm (A:IR) will breathe life into a stagnating MMORPG genre
Ready for some harsh truths, MMO players? Bluehole CEO Hyo-Seob Kim recently told GIbiz that he wasn't expecting PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds to do so well globally,...
Battle Bards Episode 110: Acoustic guitar
The Battle Bards are quite familiar with the power of the strummed guitar and lute, knowing that such simple instruments can bring down walls,...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO stories of 2017
One thing you can say for the MMO industry: It never ceases to surprise all of us. No matter what predictions we may make...
Mobile MMO roundup: PUBG’s mobile version, Pokemon Go’s Ho-Oh, Mu Legends’ PvP, and Tera M’s launch
Welcome back to another mobile MMO roundup!
First up: PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, which has yet to actually formally launch on PC, is already getting a mobile...
The MOP Up: League of Legends doesn’t want to grow up (November 26, 2017)
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...
One Shots: The rat race
At times, I feel like I must be the responsible adult in the MMORPG genre and sit down some of these artists and tell...
Phantasy Star Online 2 website quietly shutters
Players hoping for Phantasy Star Online 2 in the west have been holding onto a thin sliver of hope for five years now. Back...
The MOP Up: Osiris New Dawn’s terrifying space ghosts (November 19, 2017)
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...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO would you recommend to Marvel Heroes refugees?
So Marvel Heroes has about six weeks to live thanks to the impending shutdown of the game following Disney's decision to drop Gazillion as...
Blade & Soul grants character boosts, Blade & Soul Revolution struts its stuff on mobile
With only a few weeks left before Blade & Soul drops its "biggest patch ever," NCsoft is gifting players a bundle of goodies to...
DC Universe Online patches in Earth-3 adventures today
This morning, the DC Universe Online servers went down to apply the game's next major patch. They may or may not be back up...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 144: Harry Potter and the Deathly ARG
Justin and Bree talk Guild Wars 2 mounts, the Harry Potter ARG, SWTOR's merge, WoW, LOTRO, Pocket Legends Adventures, Android games, and Bluehole's Ascent: Infinite Realm, with mailbag questions on GW2 marketing, visual effect shenanigans, and MMOs as escapism.
Blade & Soul teases Dawn of the Lost Continent’s sights and storyline
When Dawn of the Lost Continent drops in Blade & Soul next month, the upgrade to level 55 will be accompanied by a "sweeping...
