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Ever wished Tyria could fit in your pocket? That dream could one day become a reality. A couple of weeks ago, we heard rumblings...

This week I spent a bit of time perusing the Star Wars Galaxies Legends Discord, where candidates for the player Senate are making stump...

Here's a bit of full disclosure: I still cannot reach the top of Kugane's tower to this day. It's the one jumping puzzle that...

Looter shooters -- online games with shooter gameplay and loot-based progression -- are all the rage these days. But maybe this trend has passed...

A few weeks back, I was thinking about classic Star Wars Galaxies and the game's training system. While you could gain experience by doing...

For this week's edition of the MMO Cartographer, I have pulled Aura Kingdom out of my magical bag of maps. It is a bright,...

It feels like whenever people talk about parts of old MMOs that aren't holding up as well, we fall back on the graphics. Some...

Part of the holy mission of the Game Archaeologist is to ferret out the roots of history that ultimately led to MMORPGs as we...

We all do it. We're going along, adventuring in a virtual world, when we see an enemy approaching that makes us want to take...

There are some MMO stories that are just unbelievable. They are so warped convoluted and confusing that we think there's no possible way it...

One of my favorite idioms is "dead as a doornail." It always reminds me of the time I got sent out of my 10th...

MOP reader Tanek recently pointed us to a thread on Lord of the Rings Online forums where players have been debating the merits of...

One could certainly argue that Guild Wars 2’s primary focus is that of a PvE, story driven game. Hell, I’d make that argument. Yet,...

The other night, I was reading the Final Fantasy XIV subreddit and came across that gem of all gems for people who love badly...

When an MMO gets big enough, you get its anti-fandom. This is not the same as people who don't particularly like a game; some...

One of the hallmarks of our genre is the inherent heartbreak it's capable of creating within us. Whether we're doing a corpse run in...

In Path of Exile, don't despair if you feel like a beginner for a while -- the more you play, the deeper it gets....

Here at Massively Overpowered, we learn about some games, folks. We learn a whole lot about a whole lot of games! We know MMOs....

The other day we posted about how Ship of Heroes is going to include a randomizer in its character creator, which pleased me. I...

You ever uninstall a game after a while, forget that you did so, then see it on your Steam library, wonder why it’s not...