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Tamriel Infinium: First impressions of Elder Scrolls Online’s Clockwork City DLC
It's hard to know where to start with these impressions because the upcoming DLC for Elder Scrolls Online is significantly more complex, more extensive,...
Here’s what’s changed since you last played Guild Wars 2, including Path of Fire’s spec changes
Hey, there's a Guild Wars 2 expansion coming: Path of Fire. Maybe you're coming back for that. Maybe you left the game only a...
PSA: This is your last chance to grab the end of Guild Wars 2 Living World Season 3 for free
Coming back to Guild Wars 2 this week due to the hullabaloo over Path of Fire? You might end up with a nice content...
Choose My Adventure: The return to Guild Wars 2
Many moons ago, when I was first hired on Massively-that-was, my fellow hire at the time was a lady by the name of Rubi...
Take a peek at Elder Scrolls Online’s Clockwork City DLC map and subzones
Now that Elder Scrolls Online's Clockwork City DLC is live for testing on the PTS, the spoilers have changed over from a trickle to...
Jukebox Heroes: Music from Destiny 2, LOTRO, Absolver, Black Desert, and Champions Online
Apologies for being extensively absent from this column over the last few months! Every day the Massively OP offices are deluged with fan mail...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 136: Westward ho!
Justin and Bree discuss Wild West Online, Star Citizen, EVE Online, Black Desert, Phantasy Star Online 2, FFXIV, DDO, Neverwinter, Ultima Online, and of course Guild Wars 2, with mailbag entries on Star Citizen's monetization and solid free-to-play side MMOs.
Flameseeker Chronicles: Our Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire launch countdown checklist
I can't quite believe that around 18 months of Guild Wars 2 development is about to drop in our laps this week through the Path of...
Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire is rejiggering crafting material storage to prevent hoarding, and fans are not happy
Material storage in Guild Wars 2 is a pretty important part of the game, especially if you have any interest in crafting. People who...
Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire launch trailer is hot. One might even say it’s on fire. Because it is.
Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire launch is coming up fast on Friday of this very week, which means today is launch trailer day....
Check out Elder Scrolls Online’s Clockwork City patch notes, new houses, and new cosmetics
Who doesn't like some nice fresh patch notes? The Elder Scrolls Online is letting players into the Clockwork City, at least on the test...
Neverwinter highlights major inventory quality-of-life overhaul
Inventory management in MMORPGs is critical -- I can't even imagine playing something like World of Warcraft or Elder Scrolls Online without inventory mods...
Take a tour of Elder Scrolls Online’s Clockwork City, arriving on the PTS this week
Excited about Elder Scrolls Online's upcoming foray into the Clockwork City? This mechanical metropolis is coming "a little later this year," offering a new...
The Daily Grind: Do you feel crowdfunded MMOs ‘owe’ you something?
My husband and I were chatting about the whole Chris-Roberts-is-fed-up-with-trolls-and-date-estimates-that-everyone-knows-aren't-going-to-stick thing from last week when he said something that struck me. "It reminds me...
The MOP Up: PlayerUnknown’s Battleground and the fog of war (September 17, 2017)
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...
One Shots: A bridge too far
One more bridge. That's what she kept telling me, even though I cautioned her that sooner or later our luck would run out. She...
Guild Wars 2 begins its final countdown to Path of Fire’s launch
With the launch of Path of Fire just a week away now, the Guild Wars 2 team has outlined its plans for the next...
Massively Overthinking: What keeps you from playing mobile MMOs?
Earlier this week, we wrote about Black Desert developer Pearl Abyss' IPO and its grand plans for the future - among them, four additional...
PAX West 2017: Chronicles of Elyria’s monetization philosophy, tribe evolution, and the PvP sandbox stigma
What is Chronicles of Elyria? We first learned about the game and its goal to redefine the MMORPG genre back in 2015. Since then,...
Elite: Dangerous brings the Thargoids with patch 2.4 on September 26
There are dangerous things in deep space when you play Elite: Dangerous. More dangerous than system failures, or pirates, or interstellar phenomena. The Thargoids...
