classic mmo

So... this is an interesting situation for me. I've had a number of games that I've played for Choose My Adventure that I haven't...

Jagex CEO Phil Mansell is making the press rounds this week, unloading interesting quotes on GIbiz, including the admission that Jagex felt it had neglected...

Look down — and it’ll be the last thing you’ll ever see! That’s because fury and death arrive in the form of short character...

By the time that World of Warcraft came on the scene in 2004, the MMORPG industry had already gravitated toward standard when it came...

Live today in regular flavor RuneScape is a brand-new update that ought to make thieves in particular happy. "Safecracking is a new training method, unlocked...

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...

You know the story of Roanoke, right? That early American settlement that abruptly went missing with only the word "Croatoan" carved into a tree...

Justin and Bree discuss DDO, Secret World Legends, Star Trek Online, Trove, Ultima Online, the Russian Telegram crisis' effect on MMOs, TERA, Kritika, RIFT Prime, and MapleStory 2, with mailbag topics on zoning out in MMOs and finding classic play niches in modern crowdfunded MMOs.

Hope you haven't booked that summer vacation just yet, because Legends of Aria would like to interest in a fantasy holiday. The studio announced...

Project Gorgon, the scrappy indie MMO that recently went into Steam early access, hosted an Ask Me Anything session on Reddit to talk about...

If all goes well, later this year we will finally be treated to an actual Harry Potter MMORPG in the form of Harry Potter:...

If you trekked back into Ultima Online earlier this month when it converted into a free-to-play game, maybe to check out your old account,...

The first wave of invites have been sent out for Old School RuneScape's mobile closed beta, and the test has begun. While both versions of...

Oh boy. So, yes, I did actually play some Ultima Online. Or I tried to play some Ultima Online, at least. I'm not sure that...

Earlier this month, Pantheon's community team tweeted out a question that keeps coming back to me: "What motivates you to play an MMORPG for...

Massively OP reader Steve wants us to revisit the Daily Grind on making death more meaningful without making it more annoying. His letter was long, so...

We've all been there. We're playing our favorite MMORPG and then self-appointed professors of game history start arguing in world chat about firsts --...

It's hard to believe that summer is right around the corner, but RuneScape has its eyes on the ball and is already preparing many...

If we judged MMOs by their numbers alone -- and I'm not suggesting we do so -- then the original Lineage would be the...

The past couple of weeks has been wild as we dispatched writers to GDC in San Francisco and PAX East in Boston to gather...