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Crowfall’s Walton says we should blame him for Star Wars Galaxies’ NGE
Hey, NGE fans! Crowfall's Gordon Walton says that the day that will live in Star Wars: Galaxies infamy was his idea.
Now, that's oversimplifying things just a...
WRUP: Twilight over Eorzea edition
It's hard to make a storyline that leads perfectly into an expansion. There's always more that could be done, the challenge of making something...
The Daily Grind: Do you ever want to change your character’s race?
We all whine and complain about MMO cash shop offerings, but you know what's one item that I'm always glad to see? A race...
Ascent is MMO space simming done right
My favorite thing about Ascent: The Space Game is its planetary rotation. It's a small thing, granted, but the first time I sat still...
The button is not an MMO… but it’s sure something
Two days ago, Reddit launched its April Fools' Day prank. It's a button. A single button with a countdown timer next to it that's...
The Daily Grind: Does FFA PvP reflect badly on players?
Today's Daily Grind question comes from Luxxicon, a donor to our Kickstarter campaign. Luxxicon just wants to talk about open-world PvP. In fact, his...
10 ways MMOs have changed the real world for the better
Are MMOs pointless time-wasters, the bread and circuses of the modern era, or do they make positive, meaningful contributions to the real world? Well,...
The Daily Grind: What’s the last non-combat activity you did in an MMO?
It's no secret that today's MMOs focus almost exclusively on combat. Oh sure, some of them have rudimentary crafting, trading, and housing minigames, but...
EverQuest II cuts expansions, debuts DLCs with Rum Cellar
With everything that has happened over the last couple of months, players are understandably curious and concerned about of the future of Daybreak Games'...
Crowfall reorganizes after Kickstarter, prepares for summer pre-alpha test
While Crowfall may be running silent following its Kickstarter campaign, it doesn't mean that the team is coasting. On the contrary, things might have...
SWTOR’s outfit designer loses weight restrictions
Here's some good news for all you Star Wars: The Old Republic fashionistas. The game's upcoming outfit designer will not feature armor weight restrictions,...
Choose My Adventure: Torchlight, too
March is but a memory. April is here. And while a new month certainly brings new things to Choose My Adventure, we've got just...
Ask Mo: Jobs in the MMO industry, jobs in MMOs
Today, we're reintroducing our general MMO advice column, here named Ask Mo: the column where you ask Mo questions, and he... lets me answer them for...
The Daily Grind: Would you play a stripped-down mobile version of your favorite MMO?
The (as of yet unspecified) plans to create a mobile version of Final Fantasy XI touches on a sore subject for me: the lack...
Raptr steps into video social media with Plays.tv
Raptr's new platform called Plays.tv could be compared to Twitch because it focuses on video games, but it's probably more like Vine or Instagram...
Perfect World suffers more layoffs, this time in the EU
Massively OP has been contacted by a former Perfect World employee — who wishes to remain anonymous and whose identity we have confirmed — about...
The Daily Grind: Have you tried Infinite Crisis?
Infinite Crisis came out on Steam last week, which was bad timing for me. I left town for the weekend and I didn't get to...
She-Hulk is judge, jury, and executioner in Marvel Heroes
I love superhero bios. They can just do whatever and it's all canon. Check out this one for She-Hulk, who transitions from being just a Marvel...
The Daily Grind: What stupid mistake do you keep making in an MMO?
In a lot of games, the E key defaults to use/interact/whatever. Get near a thing, press E, you do what you need to do....
Guild Chat: The top five ingredients in every great guild
Welcome to Guild Chat, my comfortable little corner of Massively Overpowered in which I dissect the inner workings and tricky politics associated with MMO...
