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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...

During last week's podcast, Justin and I bumped into a tangential topic about competitive PvE and how relatively rare it is in MMORPGs, which...

Ever find yourself wondering, "Whatever happened to so-and-so? We never hear about that MMO in the news any more! Is it still running? Does...

A little while ago, I was amused by a story about how a sort-of pet for World of Warcraft's sort-of housing was able to...

The classic break-up line is "it's not you, it's me." It is, of course, usually a lie, and it often gets followed up shortly...

As Asian countries are cracking down on online games with lockbox gambling, gaming companies are complying with transparency. To wit: Blizzard's Chinese Overwatch website...

Practically since the launch year of World of Warcraft, there have been player-run Gnome races (especially the nekked variety), sending pint-sized characters on a...

Activision-Blizzard can't claim "biggest quarter ever" for the quarter ending March 2017, but it continues to rake in huge sums of money, enough to at...

If you've played a single Overwatch game with Mercy as your support hero, you've heard her rallying shout at least once - "Heroes never...

Had you forgotten about the Diablo III Q&A stream about the Necromancer? Because that happened. Not to worry, though; there's a full summary available...

With Lord of the Rings Online hitting its 10th anniversary this past week, plenty of bloggers are enjoying the festivities and recalling some of...

There have been good parts and bad parts of Mythic keystones in World of Warcraft, and the team is planning to address the latter...

Have you ever noticed that while there's an entire world out there, most all of the MMORPGs we discuss and play tend to either...

Justin and Bree discuss Ashes of Creation, Guild Wars 1 and 2, Star Trek Online, FFXIV, Neverwinter, WoW addons, Kingdom of Loot, and City of Heroes, with mailbox questions on MMO tourist mode and character creation inspiration.

While Overwatch's most recent event, Uprising, was scheduled to conclude yesterday, it got a brief, second lease on life with a one-day extension. So...

It's a momentous week for Hearthstone, which announced that it has now seen 70 million players log into the game across all of its...

Don't judge a book by its cover, they say, and certainly don't go making assumptions about the difficulty levels of MMORPGs by how gritty...

Looking back at March's digital sales, the industry was up 15% year-over-year from 2016, Superdata Research reports. Mobile was the largest area of growth,...

Blizzard has just announced that Overwatch has just counted 30 million players. That's buyers, mind you, as the game is buy-to-play. However, a limited free-to-play Overwatch is...

The current flow of clearing World Quests in World of Warcraft is pretty straightforward. You see that there's a world quest out there offering...