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Giveaway: Pick up a Forsaken World Volos pet and gift pack from PWE and MOP
Forsaken World's latest expansion, Awakening, went live earlier this week, and to celebrate, Perfect World has granted Massively OP a thousand key bundles to hand...
WoW Factor: Why Legion’s alpha/beta label is a hair worth splitting
The Legion alpha is back, and it is still an alpha. And I want to to stress, not for the first time, that I...
Waitlisted for The Division’s beta? ‘Check back tomorrow,’ says Ubisoft
Were you assuming that handing over a stack of cash would secure your spot in The Division's beta this weekend? Well, that much is...
Marvel Heroes 2016 launches today with new story chapter, visual updates
Marvel Heroes is about to reinvent itself as Marvel Heroes 2016. And it's even 2016! What a coincidence!
Launching today, the upgrade will download for...
Massively Overthinking: The cynicism of modern MMO Kickstarters
This week we've been abuzz about Smed's Hero's Song Kickstarter cancellation - the KS more than the game, mostly because the game is happening...
Post-apoc MMO Trinium Wars previews the Human faction in new video
Revealed last week, Trinium Wars appears to be a remake or rerelease of Nitrozen's Living After War, a post-apoc/sci-fi mashup MMO that went into...
The Division plans three paid season pass expansions alongside free updates
Adding further hype to the multi-platform beta tests kicking off this weekend, Ubisoft has opened up on the company blog about The Division's post-launch...
Shroud of the Avatar drops Release 26 update with a full character wipe
Here's the bad news for players looking forward to the next major Shroud of the Avatar patch: A character wipe is happening. All of...
Bless Online stumbles in its open beta
If you're not part of Bless Online's Korean open beta, you might want to count your... um, blessings right now. Instead offering a fun-filled...
Perfect Ten: How to play MMOs on a limited time budget
One of the most frequent questions I'm ever asked here at Massively OP or on my own blog is, "How do you do it?...
Get ready for The Division’s weekend closed beta test
With little more than a month to go before its alleged March 8th release date, The Division needs to get some serious testing under...
Gigantic’s closed beta is now open 24/7
Do you sit around on your couch, wailing and gnashing your teeth over the fact that you can only play Gigantic's closed beta during...
Black Desert’s Beauty and the Beast character screenshot contest has begun
The "Beast" part of Black Desert's Beauty and the Beast contest officially kicked off this morning.
Daum invites future players to download the game's character...
Perfect World Entertainment announces Livelock, a top-down cooperative shooter
How do you feel about robots shooting other robots? If you would rate your feelings in that department as "Strongly Positive" or better, you...
Mu: Origin starts closed beta testing
Looking for some pocket-sized MMO fun? Mu: Origin, the mobile spin-off of the long-running Mu Online, is starting its closed beta test today.
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Nexon announces Riders of Icarus, an aerial combat, action-adventure MMORPG
Nexon has just announced a new "free-to-play action-adventure MMORPG" Riders of Icarus, whose highlight is apparently "exhilarating aerial combat unlike anything ever seen before...
Hands-on with HEX: Chronicles of Entrath’s PvE
What do you know about HEX: Shards of Fate? If you've ever played it, probably more than me. But what do you know about...
The MOP Up: Metal Gear Online comes to PC (January 24, 2016)
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...
Leaderboard: What’s your opinion of Blade & Soul, one week in?
On Friday, we updated our beta impressions of Blade & Soul with fresh impressions after a week of play, and the underlying theme of...
Betawatch: Having fun with Black Desert’s character creator (January 22, 2016)
Who doesn't like a good character creator? The people in charge of Black Desert clearly like having one so much that a standalone version...