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The Game Archaeologist: True Fantasy Live Online
As an extremely amateur historian -- and an extremely attractive archaeologist -- I've always been fascinated with the "what ifs" of gaming's timeline. What...
No Man’s Sky will operate free of PlayStation Plus
One of the downsides to getting into online games on consoles is that you have to worry about whether or not the titles will...
Leaderboard: Is Black Desert’s new subscription value pack pay-to-win?
Black Desert players are on fire over the new subscription value pack. Well not literally on fire, but damn close.
MOP reader Sally pointed us...
Make My MMO: Hero’s Song’s update and the Elite: Dangerous mystery map (July 23, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, John Smedley tweeted a few teasers for his upcoming pixel MMORPG Hero's Song. "We're at 5400 items in our game...
The Game Archaeologist: Sega’s 10six MMO
If you were to think of Sega and MMOs, chances are the only thing that would come to mind is the Phantasy Star Online franchise....
The Daily Grind: How do you justify blasting ‘free’ MMORPG content?
An anonymous reader recently sent us an email trying to puzzle out the problem of criticizing a genre full of handouts.
"A lot of games...
Make My MMO: Descent Underground (July 16, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Descent: Underground released a major AI update this week -- the Moon Collider’s advanced Kythera AI system -- plus...
Darkfall: New Dawn opens its store
Darkfall: New Dawn isn't wasting any time setting up a revenue stream to tap players flocking to this reboot. The new web store, which...
Perfect Ten: The most exciting MMO developments yet to come in 2016
In the annals of MMORPG history, 2016 might well go down as a very odd duck of a year. While on the surface it...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 73: AdventureQuest 3D
Justin interviews Artix, the creator of AdventureQuest 3D.
The MOP Up: Path of Exile’s Q&A bonanza (July 10, 2016)
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...
Make My MMO: People are actually buying Richard Garriott’s blood (July 9, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Shroud of the Avatar's Richard Garriott and Starr Long shocked gamers by auctioning off art pieces that include their...
Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained’s newsletter, SOTA’s $9M funding (July 2, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Camelot Unchained released its latest newsletter (at just under 8000 words, if you were curious - it's tradition...
Daybreak bans, unbans thousands of third-party key purchasers
If you bought and activated a key for EverQuest, DC Universe Online, PlanetSide 2, EverQuest II, or a Krono subscription from a third-party reseller, you...
Star Trek Online shows off the contents of the Kelvin lockbox
The Kelvin timeline is edging its way into Star Trek Online, but only in little ways here and there. There are incursions from the...
Massively Overthinking: The MMORPG wishes that go unfulfilled
This week's Massively Overthinking question is a short and sweet one posed by Das Tal developer Alexander Zacherl.
"What's the greatest unfulfilled dream of MMO players...
Riders of Icarus kicks off head start, has loads of content in the works for open beta and beyond
Today marks the start of Riders of Icarus' head start, provided that you were one of the players who bought into it. For the rest...
Overwatch, League of Legends, and World of Warcraft top May Superdata charts
Probably no big surprise here, but according to Superdata Research in May, Blizzard and Riot Games are still kings of the online PC gaming...
Make My MMO: 3001SQ’s Kickstarter, Gorgon’s patch, and Elyria’s update (June 25, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, the Chronicles of Elyria team discussed its plans for the online shop (it'll be ready in a few more...
Procedural sandbox Forsaken Legends sells prelaunch access
It's the weekend and you deserve a treat. How about word of a new fantasy MMORPG that you could play right now, albeit in...
