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The MOP Up: League of Legends fights in-house toxicity (June 19, 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...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with distinct visual styles
Given the choice, I am always going to pick a game with stylized graphics over realistic ones. This is for many reasons; it's partly...
Analyst argues game devs are abandoning free-to-play in some genres
Red Fox Insights analyst Jake Parmley has another piece on Gamasutra this week, this one arguing that video game developers are "backing away from...
Champions Online begins Nightmare Invasion event
Champions Online has just kicked off a new Nightmare Invasion event for teams of 3 to 5 superheroes over level 10.
"Strange otherworldly creatures have...
Perfect Ten: My highlights from pre-launch MMO hype
Maybe the hype and anticipation of an upcoming MMORPG leaves you feeling burned out and turned off these days. Considering that some titles can...
One Shots: You put a spell on me
One of the very few MMORPGs that my wife and I ever played together was Wizard101, and I think most of that time involved...
Perfect World will publish Motiga’s MOBA Gigantic
Perfect World has just announced that it will be publishing Gigantic, Motiga's upcoming MOBA. "This partnership with Perfect World Entertainment expands the game’s reach, allowing...
Giant monsters smash Champions Online, heroes smash back
Sure, you expect nasty things to come out of a place called Monster Island, but Canada? Why are you getting in on the act...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 63: Leisure suit Larry
Justin and Larry discuss pristine WoW servers, TSW, Trove, Champs Online, SWTOR, lockboxes, and birthdays in CoH, LOTRO, and Guild Wars.
Champions Online promises fresh events, archetypes, and costumes
Champions Online has posted a state of the game letter to let players know what's new in Millennium City and what's still on the way. You know,...
Black Desert: Business model research, Daum addresses hacking complaints
Red Fox Insights analyst Jake Parmley has a piece on Gamasutra today about Black Desert's business model that confirms what you might already suspect:...
City of Heroes fans mark 12th anniversary in Paragon Chat and Champions Online
Twelve years ago, heroes answered the call to defend Paragon City against aliens, bandits, and nefarious sewer zombies. City of Heroes launched on April 27th,...
Champions Online wants to put you in the seat of this shiny air bike
Even the most stalwart superhero wants to unleash their inner grease monkeys once in a while. Champions Online is giving its legion of heroes...
Paragon’s Iggy and Scorch are an explosive mix
Kids, don't drink and drive. Unless, for some bizarre reason, you end up in a MOBA where you've transformed into an alcoholic gremlin-thing and...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with huge class rosters
After talking with Mark Jacobs the other week about the difficulty of balancing Camelot Unchained's 30 classes, it got my mind thinking of MMOs...
Hyperspace Beacon: Three things SWTOR’s Eternal Championship needs
Hello BioWare,
It’s me again, your average Star Wars: The Old Republic fan. You remember when I complained about Chapter 10 of Knights of the...
Perfect Ten: Why MMORPG studios don’t just reboot their games
Last Friday's WildStar news made me sad. I'm sad because there are two games at war within that title. One of them is a...
Champions Online joins the Deadpool hype with freebie archetype
Crushing on Deadpool? Champions Online clearly is too, as it's made its "Specialist" archetype, which usually costs 1150 ZEN in the cash shop, free for...
The Daily Grind: What is your favorite memory from the EverQuest franchise?
It's interesting to note that the EverQuest video game franchise, as a whole, is quite large -- perhaps bigger than you realized. There's the...
League of Legends deploys final preseason patch
Before the season arrives, League of Legends has one or two final things to say in how the game is run. Today the MOBA...