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My first week of playing Guild Wars 2 again was interesting, in no small part because it's rare for my playtime to be so...

Something odd hit me recently. As I was sitting and planning my MMO play schedules, I realized that whatever announcements about expansions we get...

It's always a crapshoot whether or not smaller patches are going to pay out with exciting features or fail to make a blip on...

One of the first players to encounter the Thargoids in Elite: Dangerous provided a video of the encounter, and the bad news is that...

Every time we come around to fall, it hits me that we're on the downhill slide to the year's end. Fewer months are left...

There is about a half of a year, we are told, before Conan Exiles leaves the semi-shelter of early access and sees if it...

My initial impressions on Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire launch are rather late to the table, owing to some fairly significant connection issues...

Ever since Bluehole threw down a gauntlet at Epic's feet over the similarities between PUBG and Fortnite's battle royale mode - or more specifically,...

It's almost the end of the month, and you know what that means: Shroud of the Avatar's monthly update. R46 is due out this...

Last week, following Epic's announcement that PvE-centric Fortnite would be getting a PvP-centric battle royal mode its paying PvE players apparently didn't want (but that's...

Hey, remember the MMO Book Club? That's the Reddit-and-Discord group that allows members to vote on a game to play, then organizes a guild...

In one of our recent Daily Grind discussions about MMORPGs that might make it to 20 years of live operation, some of our commenters...

Daybreak has quietly shifted one of the aspects of its free-to-play business model for EverQuest II. In response to a query as to when...

I would like to say that when I was a kid playing my first MMORPGs, I was impervious to the grind, that I embraced...

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...

Earlier this year, popular streaming platform Twitch - with whom we are a partner - introduced what probably ought to have been a controversial...

Guild Wars 2 launched its second expansion, Path of Fire, a few days ago, and as you might expect, a new expansion means some immediate...

"It's possible, pig, I might be bluffing. It's conceivable, you miserable, vomitous mass, that I'm only lying here because I lack the strength to...

In preparing tomorrow's birthday piece for Ultima Online, I confidently wrote that Ultima Online was not going free-to-play because that's what the devs always...

It always seems a bit unfair, a bit impatient, and a bit premature to be asking that eternal question of an MMO: "What's next?"...