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Perfect Ten: The best expansions for specific MMOs
Looking over the past two decades or so, MMORPGs have grown by leaps and bounds with regular releases, events, and (of course) expansion packs....
Perfect Ten: Endless dungeons in MMOs
Most MMO dungeons are normal songs. You start out and you have a pretty clear picture of the beginning, middle, and end; they don't...
City of Titans offers up a Fourth of July teaser
"Heroes may fall. Heroism never dies."
With a not-so-covert nod to the late City of Heroes, City of Titans' latest 4th of July video attempts to bridge...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the most complex character development?
Over the weekend, I was reading a makeup subreddit (don't judge me - I swear there is a gaming point to this) and the...
City of Titans is bringing the control lifestyle back, baby
Raise someone else's hand up if you have fond memories of playing a Controller in City of Heroes. The concept of a crowd control...
Perfect Ten: The best MMO debuts by year, 1997-2006
By now, many of you probably know that I'm the curator of the MMO Timeline on my personal blog. On this page, I've attempted...
One Shots: Fashion patrol coming your way!
Well that is certainly one way to fill up the comments section with tons of screenshots: asking all of you to show of your...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO’s music brings back all the feels?
One of the reasons that I love and listen to MMO music so much -- other than it rocks, obviously -- is that it...
City of Heroes emulator SEGS announces new update with NPCs, database support, and a GUI
If you've been following SEGS' twitter over the last week, you know the team there has been teasing something big. And now we know...
Hyperspace Beacon: The sorry state of roleplay in Star Wars: The Old Republic
Since the server merges, the Star Forge server has unofficially become the roleplay server for Star Wars: The Old Republic. And roleplaying's fight to...
The Daily Grind: What kind of superhero do you want to make in an MMO?
While City of Heroes is long gone, you can't keep a good cape down. With a couple of superhero MMORPGs out on the market...
Perfect Ten: How MMOs can become more accessible
Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I was remarkably reluctant to enter into the field of MMORPGs despite being a perfect candidate...
The Daily Grind: What made City of Heroes work so well?
Although City of Heroes is not coming back (I think we all need to come to terms with that), many successors are waiting in...
The MOP Up: Diablo levels up in Heroes of the Storm (May 13, 2018)
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: First MMO loves
What was your first? Not necessarily the first MMORPG you ever played, but the first that made you fall in love with that game...
Massively Overthinking: The state of modern MMORPG raiding
Massively OP reader Sorrior recently sent in a question about raiding, a topic we haven't discussed in a while.
"I have noticed raiding tends to...
Missing 14-year-old City of Heroes? The SEGS emulator is looking for coders
Are you missing City of Heroes this week, what with the 14th anniversary of its launch and all? We are too. Earlier this month,...
Global Chat: Shroud of the Avatar confounds
What to make of Shroud of the Avatar? The few MMO bloggers who have looked into this recently released but already long-running title have...
The Stream Team: Partying in Paragon Chat to celebrate City of Heroes’ anniversary
Celebration might not be quite the right word to use when referring to the City of Heroes anniversary, but that doesn't mean fans don't...
Here’s how to Celebrate City of Heroes’ 14th anniversary in Paragon Chat today
If you're feeling the burning desire to reminisce in City of Heroes and hang out with other people who understand why it was so...
