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The inspiration behind this edition of MMO Mechanics is a recent conversation I had with my housemates about the column and the inner workings...

Podcasts are certainly splendid means of feeding one's MMO interests and keeping in touch with the news and community. It's always great to hear...

EVE Online's passive skill training system lets players slowly accumulate skill points over time, and until recently there was no way to actively skip ahead...

On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and Bree discuss MOP's first birthday, DUST 514, H1Z1, DCUO, Hearthstone, Anarchy Online, Diablo III, and TSW, with a mailbag question on the return of MMO subs.

The developers behind EVE Online work very hard to make sure that the game is pretty to look at. That's important. But you can...

A few months ago, CCP Games announced its somewhat unorthodox plans to allow EVE Online players to extract and sell their skill points on...

CCP recently discovered an SSO (single sign-on) bug with EVE Online's test server. The good news is that CCP fixed it. The bad news is...

This week we heard the news that CCP Games will be officially shutting down PS3 online shooter DUST 514 in May to start work on...

Of all the chapters in Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt's book The Video Game Debate: Unravelling the Physical, Social, and Psychological Effects of Video...

When Crowfall launches, it plans to have upwards of 1,500 skills available for players to choose and train. Before your eyes cross just thinking...

CCP Games has just announced that it will be sunsetting its EVE-universe shooter DUST 514 on the PlayStation 3 platform on May 30th. The...

When it comes to creating a science fiction MMO, there are two directions you can take. You can either hold up EVE Online as...

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...

The high cost of Oculus Rift brought a lot of discussion to the MMO blogosphere recently, with writers taking sides for and against the...

Even in games set far in the future, people still think about living in the World of Tomorrow. EVE Online players are already experiencing...

In all the time that I've been writing about EVE Online, one of the most common recurring comments is that the game badly needs...

EVE Online is warping into a sector where hobbies and scientific research intersect. CCP Games announced that it's partnering up with The Human Protein...

You might recall that last month, Petroglyph Games brought back Mytheon, a cute isometric MMO that's steeped in cultural mythology. You might also recall...

One of the great things about the EVE Online soundtrack, other than its perplexing popularity despite being mostly an ambient synth score, is that...

The big excitement in the EVE Online world right now is the upcoming Citadel expansion, which is slated to arrive sometime this spring. CCP...