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City of Titans looks at the Five Dragons gang
Superhero games aren't much fun without villains to beat up, and in a superhero MMO, there needs to be a lot of those. City...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG stories of the year
Earlier this week, we posted our award for the biggest MMORPG story of the year -- the one we thought had the biggest impact...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Best MMORPG Business Model of 2016
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...
Global Chat: Knights of the Eternal Throne debate
With the arrival of SWTOR: Knights of the Eternal Throne, the MMO blogosphere lit up in lively discussion about the expansion, its story, and...
Massively OP’s Best of 2016 Awards: Biggest MMORPG Story of 2016
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...
Worlds Adrift takes on new team members as alpha 5 begins
Worlds Adrift's alpha 5 has kicked off today with new dev team members in high places. Bossa Studios announced on Friday that it's picked up...
Trove launches on the PlayStation 4 this week
While Trion Worlds announced earlier this year that its sandbox Trove would be coming to consoles by the end of 2016, the studio demurred...
Conan Exiles infographic details the thin barriers between you and death
Turns out yesterday's Conan Exiles survival video wasn't the only thing Funcom had in store on the topic. Today, the studio's put out a...
WildStar promises ‘exciting features’ and new content in 2017
WildStar is "rocketing" into 2017, declares a new dev blog from Carbine's clearly indefatigable Chad "Pappylicious" Moore today. After recapping last month's Redmoon Mutiny...
Conan Exiles’ new trailer features elephants, sandstorms, shelter, and dancing thralls
Funcom has a long video out today on Conan Exiles, and while it begins with a retread of the basics of starting out in...
Conan Exiles discusses character creation and your list of crimes
Conan Exiles' latest dev blog is all about first steps... yours. Specifically, it's about the character creation and earliest stages of the game, and...
That time when Riders of Icarus added a level 50 dungeon to a level 40 game
Here's a fun experiment that Riders of Icarus recently performed: Insert a level 50 dungeon with highly desirable rewards into a game with a...
Revelation Online teases world bosses and 11471-point achivement system
The latest Revelation Online PvE dev blog from My.com is live today, and this one wraps up the series by covering world bosses as...
Vets can now play through EVE Online’s new player experience
Following the Ascension expansion -- and the free-to-play conversion that seems to have been a success for getting warm bodies back into EVE Online...
Battle Bards Episode 87: Elves!
It’s high time that the Battle Bards lie prostrate at the feet of their social and intellectual superiors, the high and mighty Elves! Yes,...
Global Chat: Evaluating the latest MMORPG expansions
This week in our tour through MMO blog posts, we're going to witness a lot of evaluations of recent update and expansion launches that...
Mark Kern renames Ember to Em-8ER, picks up Nostalrius programmer
Earlier this month, Mark Kern's "massive planetary wargame" shooter Ember got a new name and logo: Em-8ER.
"While still pronounced 'Ember,' we changed the official...
Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the people of the MMORPG genre
It's Thanksgiving here in the US, and we wish you all a happy one, whether you're celebrating locally or not. For this week's Massively Overthinking...
Grim Dawn previews December update
While a full-fledged expansion for Grim Dawn is in the works, that doesn't mean the team has abandoned updates for the core game in...
Global Chat: Recapturing the MMO magic
I suspect that much of the willingness of players to pour money into MMO Kickstarters is out of a strong desire to see games...
