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Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Most Underrated MMO
Welcome to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year 2020 awards!
Every year, we poll our writers on the best and worst MMOs, stories, studios, and trends and...
Former Anthem studio director Christian Dailey promises ‘talented’ leadership is still in place
As people collectively adapt, digest, and armchair analyze the departure of two of BioWare's top executives, there is one rather important piece of the...
BioWare loses GM Casey Hudson and Exec Producer Mark Darrah
If you felt a seismic shift in the foundation of the world last night, it may be that questionable burrito you bought from 7-11......
Anthem offers a look at Javelin skill trees, build customization, and Artifacts in a dev blog
It's been some time since the last dev blog came out of the rebooting Anthem, but BioWare studio director Christian Dailey is back with...
Not So Massively: The dos and don’ts of stealing from MMOs
Recently I played through the new PC port of the open world RPG Horizon Zero Dawn. While playing it, I was struck by how...
Into the Super-verse: Marvel’s Avengers feels like Marvel Heroes by way of Destiny
This past weekend, I finally had a chance to actually try out Marvel's Avengers because the game was running its open beta. Certainly I'd already...
Anthem discusses the design goals for getting loot and gearing up in the rebooted version of the shooter
BioWare Austin studio director Christian Dailey promised in his last preview of the Anthem reboot that a new dev blog would be coming soon,...
Concept art pieces for the Anthem reboot show off new locations and classically-styled pirates
All we've heard about the upcoming reboot to multiplayer robo-suit shooter Anthem is that it's going to take some time to get done. Since...
Massively Overthinking: Can Amazon actually save Crucible?
Earlier this week, Amazon pulled Crucible back into closed beta for some hefty retooling, a move that surprised basically no one. We'd watched the...
Torchlight III’s surprise early access launch was tormented by server issues and poor reviews
Torchlight III surprise-launched into early access on Steam this past weekend in the middle of the PC Gaming Show, and it hasn't really gone...
BioWare Austin’s studio director confirms Anthem reboot will be more transparent and ‘a longer process’
It's been some time since we heard about the rumored and then confirmed reboot to Anthem -- since February, to be precise. As of...
EA Play Live is scheduled for June 11
If your younger relatives occasionally tug on your shirt and ask you if E3 will ever return after this year... well, that's a bit...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMOs that don’t deserve second chances?
MOP reader Steve recently posed us an interesting question: Is it time for gamers to stop giving second chances to bungled MMOs and live...
Perfect Ten: The stages of the MMO life cycle
To this day, no one has a quote as useful on the subject of life and death as E. B. White: "We're born, we...
Anthem’s Regulator Shop will now let players buy Legendary items
There's been a little update to Anthem that appears to have made a pretty big change for players. The Regulator Shop, which previously only...
Massively Overthinking: How could MMOs combat endgame rushing?
Rushers, content locusts, world-firsters: Whatever you want to call them, these folks are both a boon and a bane for MMORPGs. They buy the...
Anthem marks its anniversary by handing out free Javelin vinyls
Congratulations for sticking with Anthem for a year, here's a skin for your robot with a Roman numeral on it. That's, effectively, the way...
The MOP Up: Runes of Magic helps you catch up
You might or might not be aware that last December, Runes of Magic rolled out new "catch up" servers that allow players to level...
MMO Business Roundup: Tim Sweeney’s politics gaffe, Nexon’s Q4 2019, and the old BioWare crew
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news!
Politics in games
Epic's Tim Sweeney opened this week's DICE Summit with a whopper of...
Anthem abandons seasonal content as BioWare confirms major redesign and reinvention
So, apparently all the stories last week about how Anthem still hadn't taken down its Christmas decorations struck a nerve, and we've got an...
