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One Shots: Eight-bit vista
One of my favorite MMO April Fools of all time is Guild Wars 2's playable Super Adventure Box. It's so brilliantly designed and executed...
Massively Overthinking: It’s the end of The Secret World as we know it
I think I can speak for most of our staff in saying that in November when Funcom first promised a "major upgrade to both retention and...
Hands-on with TERA’s new Valkyrie class
Last month, TERA's community chose the name of its new class, and next week players will get to not only see that Valkyrie in action...
A creepy starfish has taken over DC Universe Online
If you're not echinodermophobic already, DC Universe Online's latest patch is angling to turn you with its latest patch. Yes, Starro the Conqueror and...
Blade and Soul’s next update includes a training room and skill revamp
Blade and Soul's next update may be a literal game-changer, as the team is overhauling the skill system to make it more accessible and...
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...
