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Perfect World will publish Motiga’s MOBA Gigantic
Perfect World has just announced that it will be publishing Gigantic, Motiga's upcoming MOBA. "This partnership with Perfect World Entertainment expands the game’s reach, allowing...
The Daily Grind: What kind of MMO are you looking for?
There's no shame in admitting that you're looking for a new or different type of MMO to play. Maybe you just like exploring the...
Final Fantasy XI patches in job mastery battlefields for May
Do you think you're one of the best in your chosen job in Final Fantasy XI? Have you unlocked all of your job point...
How Elder Scrolls Online converts veteran ranks to champion points
ZeniMax has just posted a deep-dive into the veteran rank system obliteration coming with The Elder Scrolls Online's Dark Brotherhood DLC. "The goal for...
Surprise: Overwatch gives an extra day of open beta to all
Has your Twitter feed been inundated with talk about Overwatch this past weekend? You can thank Blizzard for making the game's beta open to...
Empyrean is building ‘MMOs you can beat’
Empyrean Interactive is coining a new acronym this season: PCA, which stands for persistent cooperative adventure, a "radically different" take on the MMO genre.
Studio...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV could use some Merit Points
The cross-class system in Final Fantasy XIV is not good. It functions, yes, but the mixing and matching of abilities from other classes is...
The MOP Up: Setting a VR world record (May 8, 2016)
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: Slipping between shadows
I'm not one of the stealthy types in MMOs, mostly because very few games give me the chance to hang upside-down from rafters and...
Elite: Dangerous launches Engineers update beta
Elite: Dangerous' 1.6 and Engineers 2.1 update have finally arrived... in beta, that is.
Frontier Head of Community Zac Antonaci posted the patch notes to...
Crowfall’s ‘universe’ plan could mean regionalized servers
"PvP is the universal language of gaming," says Crowfall studio ArtCraft in a new blog post last night. "Killing other players is a transcendent...
Perfect Ten: The final minutes of beloved MMORPGs
"This is how the world ends," T S Eliot wrote in his famous poem, "not with a bang, but with a whimper."
That might well...
Elite: Dangerous is pushing the Engineers beta out on May 5th
Eagerly awaiting the next update to Elite: Dangerous? It's been pushed back a fair bit, but it has been confirmed that the next update...
Giveaway: The Skies captain weapon keys from EFORB and MOP
Participating in the free early access beta for MMORPG The Skies? You aren't alone: The game soared to #1 in the early access category on Steam...
Enter to win a Neverwinter Xbox One boar mount from PWE and Massively OP
Just in time for this week's Neverwinter: The Maze Engine release on Xbox One and its brand-new mount system, PWE has granted Massively OP 50 mount...
Final Fantasy XI welcomes back lapsed players for its anniversary
There have been a lot of changes in Final Fantasy XI over the last month or so. Heck, even if you played at the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 63: Leisure suit Larry
Justin and Larry discuss pristine WoW servers, TSW, Trove, Champs Online, SWTOR, lockboxes, and birthdays in CoH, LOTRO, and Guild Wars.
Funcom launches The Park on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
In the mood for a bit of horror in May? If you passed on The Park (the single-player narrative spin-off from The Secret World)...
Daybreak scrambles new servers after DC Universe Online’s huge Xbox One launch
Here's a sentence I never thought I'd be typing: DC Universe Online might actually be too successful for its own good.
Since the game's launch on...
Neverwinter launches The Maze Engine on Xbox One today
You probably should not taunt anyone who has access to something called a "Maze Engine." At a quick glance at the name, it sounds...