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Battle Bards Episode 125: Archlord
The Battle Bards are always on the prowl for overlooked soundtracks from overlooked MMORPGs, and this week, they might have found a new one...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 179: MMO parenting fails
Justin and Bree discuss Star Wars Galaxies Legends, World of Warcraft, Elite Dangerous, LOTRO's Weatherstock, Trion's layoffs, No Man's Sky's multiplayer, DDO, and Wizard 101 updates, with mailbag entries on how to start an MMO blog and spooky stuff in Guild Wars 2.
Time to go shopping and make friends in retro-sandbox Staxel’s latest update
Ah heck, as I started writing this post, I remembered I defied my "no early access" rule and bought this game on the Steam...
Dauntless previews the flaming exotics arriving with The Coming Storm expansion
Dauntless turned heads earlier this week by announcing two things: It's racked up 2M players in free-to-play open beta, and it's got a big...
Massively Overthinking: What important lessons are MMORPGs failing to impart?
MOP reader and Patron Brett has a burning question about the lessons we're learning (and not learning) from playing MMORPGs.
"In his book Theory of Fun,...
Warlords Awakening just sunset in Korea, and now it’s coming to Steam early access here
As we reported in June, Paywith's Warlords Awakening MMOARPG is coming westward, with a launch planned for October and an early access date now...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Wolfhunter boasts a hunting grounds dungeon that’s fantastically creepy
The Elder Scrolls Online is really upping its creepy factor in Wolfhunter, if its latest preview of Hircine's Hunting Grounds is any indication. (Seriously,...
MapleStory 2’s second closed beta begins today; here’s a look at the founder packages
Nexon's MapleStory 2Â is barreling toward its western closed beta launch today, complete with new dungeons, quests, the market, and plenty of network stress testing...
Sea of Thieves’ July 31 Cursed Sails update adds creepy skeleton ghost ships and a three-man vessel
Who doesn't love a good ghost ship story? I'm a sucker for them, so Sea of Thieves' Cursed Sails, the game's second major update,...
What made Fortnite so ridiculously popular? Anticipation is baked into both the loot and the gameplay, says one psychologist
Over the weekend, I was chatting with the mom of my son's friend and let slip that I'm a video game blogger. Her reaction?...
Colony simulation MMO Seed blasts you into space in its brand-new pre-alpha teaser
We've been keeping an eye on Klang Games' MMO Seed since at least last year, when the studio revealed its single-shard simulation mechanics and...
Reign of Guilds shows off environments, castles, and magic in latest dev blog
The latest dev blog for Russian indie dev Atlant Games's upcoming Reign of Guilds has a veritable smorgasbord of detailed information about various facets...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s DS9 expansion gets a console release date (July 14, 2018)
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...
Global Chat: Looking back at World of Warcraft’s Legion
Now that the next World of Warcraft expansion is almost upon us, it's time to say farewell to Legion and all that that entails....
Battle Bards Episode 124: Old MMOs, new music
It’s a catch-all, catch-up episode for the Battle Bards as they dig through new soundtrack releases from MMORPGs that they’ve covered in the past!...
Ship of Heroes’ teeny-weeny robot nanites ensure smooth sailing for the superhero starship
Ship of Heroes has a fresh dev blog up today on stuff you can't even see. I'm talking, of course, about nanites, ridiculously tiny...
IGDA calls for transparent guidelines on game studio social media and harassment following Guild Wars 2 dust-up
Regardless of who you believe had the right and wrong of the ArenaNet Twitter fiasco last week, game developers have expressed concern over the...
MapleStory 2’s second closed beta begins July 18 with founder packs full of poop
If you're a die-hard Mapler anxious for your next big thing, or someone wondering what the heck a Mapler is, then point your eyeballs...
Todd Howard says ‘Elder Scrolls Online is one of the biggest online games in the world’ as Ubisoft and Bethsoft weigh in on games as a service
Are you all in on games as a service? Are single player-games over, replaced by much more profitable eternally online (and lockbox-ridden) titles? Bethsoft's...
Conan Exiles has set another Funcom record, announces Jewel of the West DLC and patch
Funcom's fortunes continue to rise thanks to Conan Exiles: The company announced today that it's "both the best-selling and fastest-selling game" in its history,...
