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SWTOR outlines expansion changes to the Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior
Here's a friendly PSA for Star Wars: The Old Republic players: Don't become so consumed by the big ticket features of the upcoming Knights of...
RSI’s attorney responds to Smart’s Star Citizen demands
The strange saga of Derek Smart's quixotic campaign against Star Citizen continues. The game developer sicced his lawyer on RSIÂ last month, delivering a series...
Guild Wars 2 unleashes fresh Mordrem event next week and blogs about raids
ArenaNet just confirmed the rumors it sparked about a Mordrem event coming to Guild Wars 2:
From 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (UTC-7) on September 10 through...
Star Citizen starts testing social module
Getting chummy with your fellow Star Citizen space pilots has taken one step closer to becoming an in-game reality today, as RSI announced that...
Global Chat: Returning to WildStar for F2P
Many WildStar fans, past and present, are digging into the sumptuous buffet of the free-to-play patch on the test server for a better idea...
Star Citizen threatened with class-action lawsuit
Internet Warlord Derek Smart is at it again: This morning, the dev behind Alganon and Line of Defense ramped up his crusade against Star Citizen and Chris Roberts with...
EVE Evolved: Has the Aegis sovereignty system worked?
It's been over a month since EVE Online deployed its new sovereignty and territorial warfare system, and the dust is only now beginning to...
The MOP Up: Rick & Morty meet MOBAs
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...
The Game Archaeologist: Star Wars Galaxies’ NGE
It became one of the most infamous moments in MMO history -- and perhaps one of the most misunderstood.
For all that the MMO community...
Massively Overthinking: MMOs that need VR
Man, our Kickstarter backers are fixated on virtual reality. It's almost as if you guys are really tech-savvy and into gaming immersion or something!
Today's Massively Overthinking question...
League of Legends retunes juggernauts
League of Legends' juggernauts -- what Riot Games is calling its slow, powerful melee characters -- are being retuned with Patch 5.16.
The latest patch...
Massively Overthinking: How seriously do you take MMO lore?
Kickstarter donor Alien Legion has proposed an intriguing question about lore in MMORPGs.
"Back in my World of Warcraft days, I mentioned to a friend that I would...
Global Chat: Guild Wars 2 needs to get its act together
Hunter's Insight is a long-time fan and player of Guild Wars 2, but recently he had some pretty harsh words to say regarding the...
Neverwinter walks you through stronghold buildings, guild hall, and eateries
There's a heapload of information for Neverwinter players to absorb regarding the upcoming Stronghold module, and Cryptic's been rolling out the dev diaries left...
League of Legends adds defensive items in patch, rejects sandbox mode
An upcoming League of Legends patch will be giving players more options for defense while smoothing out power levels of items across the board.
"We'll...
Hyperspace Beacon: Ten SWTOR sites worth visiting
As regular readers surely know, I really enjoy the Star Wars: The Old Republic community. And I don't mean the community team led by...
Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns’ first public beta weekend begins August 7th
How about some Guild Wars 2 news to justify the fact that you're awake at the crack of dawn for this Gamescom embargo lift? Yeah! ArenaNet...
Guild Wars 2’s fractal dungeons to become more accessible and challenging
Guild Wars 2 is not planning to neglect its fractal content when Heart of Thorns comes out later this year. The fantasy MMO put...
Pathfinder Online deploys holding and outpost warfare system
Purposeful PvP is expanding in Pathfinder Online, as today Goblinworks is rolling out its holding and outpost warfare system for its early enrollment v10.1...
Global Chat: Do you crave human interaction in MMOs?
I've long been an advocate of "playing alone together" in MMOs. While I enjoy grouping and teaming up to a degree, mostly I want...
