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MassivelyOP’s 2022 Awards: Best MMO Rogue Server
Welcome back to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards!
Today's award is for the Best MMO Rogue Server, which was awarded to City of Heroes' Homecoming...
WoW Factor: The curious treatment of alts in World of Warcraft Dragonflight
So now that first impressions are out of the way and I can focus on other things like making sure that my alts get...
MassivelyOP’s 2022 Awards: Most Underrated MMO
Welcome once again to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year awards.
Every year, we poll our writers on the best and worst MMOs, stories, studios, and trends...
Amazon Games will launch Blue Protocol in the west by the end of 2023
Those who have been patiently waiting for any news about Bandai-Namco's Blue Protocol coming to western shores can finally rest easily: Tonight at The...
Victorian gaslamp multiplayer PvE sandbox Nightingale teases travel in new Game Awards trailer
We've had an eye on Inflexion Games' multiplayer survival sandbox Nightingale since its debut last year - in fact, it was meant to hit...
The Game Awards 2022: Blue Protocol, Diablo IV, Wayfinder, Nightingale, Dune Awakening
We've updated with all the big news and trailers now - scroll down to the end for the announcements! Original post follows.
Gamers who aren't...
The FTC is moving to block Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision-Blizzard
Some things are just not surprising, and the FTC deciding that it wants to block the acquisition of Activision-Blizzard by Microsoft is one such...
Vague Patch Notes: MMO design is not value-neutral
It's rare for me to find myself actively yelling at my computer screen while watching something, but it does happen every so often. The...
End-of-year Eleven: The healthiest live MMOs at the end of 2022
When you're investing a whole lot of time and (potentially) money into MMORPGs, you want to make sure that your game isn't going belly-up...
Interview: Warhaven’s game director on combat, inspiration, and the future of the game
Warhaven caught my attention with its epic medieval battles featuring hand-to-hand combat and fantastic graphics. It's an upcoming game that recently had an open...
Hundreds of QA workers at ZeniMax – including Elder Scrolls Online’s ZOS – are preparing to unionize
File this one under reasons we can have nice things: QA workers at ZeniMax have announced they aim to unionize under the Communication Workers...
Five things that excite me playing World of Warcraft: Dragonflight
For most of 2022, World of Warcraft: Dragonflight was so far down my list of "most anticipated releases" as to be falling off the...
Vitae Aeternum: A measured response to New World’s 2023 roadmap
When New World released its roadmap for the first half of 2023 a few days back, the initial reaction from fans was... not great....
First impressions of World of Warcraft Dragonflight, part three: Combat, content, concerns
Eventually, you are going to have to fight something in World of Warcraft: Dragonflight. Of course, by "eventually" I actually mean "more or less...
First impressions of World of Warcraft Dragonflight, part two: Dragonriding and dragging crafting
As is always the case with these World of Warcraft impressions, there was no way to stop with just part one. There's other stuff...
Massively Overthinking: The best MMO music of 2022
Years ago, MOP's Justin listened to hundreds - no, probably more like thousands - of MMO music tracks to narrow this topic down to...
First impressions of World of Warcraft Dragonflight, part one: Direction and narrative
While it's not really what will serve as a foundational component of my evaluation of World of Warcraft: Dragonflight as a whole, I think...
From the Depths: ‘Free-to-play’ World of Warships is an expensive journey
When I first started playing MMO’s back in 2012, the hot debate of the time was subscription vs. free-to-play business models. Over the last...
End-of-Year Eleven: The Biggest MMO Surprises of 2022
All right, 2022, you are officially no longer allowed to surprise us any more because we're doing the end-of-year thing now and that means...
World of Warcraft: Dragonflight launches tonight [Update: It’s live!]
If you've been waiting eagerly for World of Warcraft: Dragonflight to arrive and wipe away Shadowlands as much as possible, your wait is rewarded...
