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Phantasy Star Online 2 will shut down in Southeast Asia on May 26
Phantasy Star Online 2 is five years old, but anyone who wants to play the game in North America without downloading an unofficial English...
TERA previews the fluid combat of the Valkyrie class, launching April 11 with Honorbound
Excited for TERA's next new class? She's the Valkyrie, with a name voted on by you, and today En Masse has queued up a...
Is Phantasy Star Online 2 worth playing?
First things first: No, there is no announcement about any sort of release for Phantasy Star Online 2 in the west. For now, the...
DC Universe Online launches its next major event on April 5
The next big event in DC Universe Online pits heroes and villains alike against Starro, a mind-controlling interstellar starfish. That's just a fun phrase...
One Shots: Avenging angel
When you push a player too far, commit too many crimes, and flaunt your evil with one of those tacky pre-battle speeches, you're going...
Jukebox Heroes: Your favorite MMO themes, #12-7
It's starting to get serious now.
As we well know, people are highly opinionated about everything, but when it comes to music, there seems to...
One Shots: I took a picture THIS big!
When you take the best screenshot in the world and want to impress your friends, do you find that you end up exaggerating a...
Massively Overthinking: The City of Heroes Master X Master debacle
On Tuesday, NCsoft announced that it plans to introduce Statesman, from the long-sunsetted City of Heroes, as a playable character in its MOBA, Master...
TERA sweetens its subscription package
Just because an MMORPG is free-to-play doesn't mean that the studio really wants you to, y'know, play for free. Over the past year or...
TERA’s EU branch claims player numbers have ‘risen massively’
We see a lot of odd press releases around here, many of them loaded with vague commentary on how well a game is doing...
Blade & Soul switches to larger, slower updates with brand-new Secrets of the Stratus
Blade & Soul is rolling out a massive expansion next month, one NCsoft says "marks a shift in pace for the game."
Dubbed Secrets of...
The MOP Up: Kali awakens in Dragon Nest (March 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...
Massively OP’s PAX East 2017 awards and best-in-show reader vote
We've finished rolling out all of our PAX East content this year, and we've put our MMORPG-addled noggins together to try to choose our...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 108: PAX East power-up
Justin and Eliot discuss PAX East, Shards Online aka Legends of Aria, TERA and Trove on console, Final Fantasy XIV, Dauntless, Kritika Online, and Conan Exiles, plus mailbag questions on Eastern MMOs and permadeath.
PAX East 2017: Hands-on with the surprisingly fun Kritika Online
It's pretty much a rule of nature that at least one game is going to be far better and more fun to play than...
The MOP Up: Wakfu hikes up a mountain (March 12, 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...
PAX East 2017: Talking Conan Exiles on the show floor with Funcom
If you're a fan of Funcom and the games it makes, Conan Exiles probably has you breathing a bit easier than you have in a...
PAX East 2017: En Masse tells us all about TERA’s console port
Putting TERA on consoles seems like it's the most obvious combination of games and platforms ever conceived. Even more than Super Mario Bros. and...
One Shots: No more worlds to conquer
There's that special joy that every screenshotter knows when you're able to get that perfect angle, that photogenic pose, and then capture it for...
A space starfish is attacking DC Universe Online, seriously
To honor the upcoming Justice League movie, the devs over at DC Universe Online are roping in the very first villain that fought this...
