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One of the big MMO stories in 2016 was the debate and drama over the demand for certain vanilla servers in popular games. Even...

Apparently some folks are taking the relaunch of the Nostalrius servers very badly: Team Elysium, the group behind the newest World of Warcraft emulator,...

A loss of a sense of community is something many MMORPG players lament as our genre approaches two decades, whether they think communities slip away...

Ugly sweaters and rumblings of the Abominable Greench are signs that World of Warcraft's Feast of the Winter Veil is back. From now through January...

You might think you're having a bad week. You would be wrong. A bad week is getting podded in the void of space as...

Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best Pseudo-MMO of 2016, which was awarded to ARK: Survival Evolved last year. As you might surmise,...

Talking about World of Warcraft in 2016 is really different because the game had two different years this year. And unfortunately for anyone trying...

Earlier this week, we posted our award for the biggest MMORPG story of the year -- the one we thought had the biggest impact...

Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best MMORPG Business Model of 2016, which is a new award we're doling out...

World of Warcraft's highly desired and much debated legendary items are in store for "fairly substantial changes" in Patch 7.1.5, Blizzard announced this week....

Does it seem like Heroes of the Storm is still struggling to find its niche? On the one hand, that question is ridiculous at...

The holiday season is rolling out in many of Blizzard's games (although that Diablo guy is being a real Grinch about it), so as...

Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Most Improved MMORPG of 2016, which was awarded to WildStar last year. All MMOs, regardless of release date,...

UK studio Improbable announced today that it's partnered with Google to allow video game developers to develop games using Google's Cloud and Improbable's SpatialOS...

Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Biggest MMORPG Story of 2016, which was awarded to the SOE/Daybreak formation drama last year. This isn't an...

According to a tweet by the original folks behind Nostalrius, the new version of the World of Warcraft classic emulator has already (or only,...

New H1Z1: Just Survive General Manager Landon Montgomery is attempting to show that his leadership will see a more open and forthcoming Daybreak with...

Back before BlizzCon, the admins of the sunsetted illegal World of Warcraft emulator Nostalrius issued a threat, demanding that the game studio create official vanilla...

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...

I don't want any of us to be fooled by this picture. Shifty-eyed evil comes in many forms, the most deceptive of which is...