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Skyforge prepares to roll out its achievement system and asks for more ideas
Achievements! They're how you track your overall progress through the game, see how many bizarre things you've accomplished, and sometimes even earn some fun...
The best SMITE and Paladins cosplay at Hi-Rez Expo 2018
While the bulk of Hi-Rez Expo 2018 is taken up with the various tournaments, the fans have their own contest open to them: Welcome...
The Stream Team: Frostbluff festivities in LOTRO
Visiting the Frostbluff Christmas village in LOTRO is one of the favorite holiday activities of Massively OP's MJ. It's a beautiful setting where you...
Enter to win a Closers ‘Ace’ founder pack from En Masse and MOP!
In honor of Closers'Â early access beta this season (and the huge update video En Masse put put out yesterday), we've got an even bigger...
Survivalbox roundup: CSGO’s survival mode, Astroneer’s alpha, Osiris New Dawn’s Zer, and ARK’s Ragnarok
Welcome back to another fast look at what the survivalboxes are up to! We've got tidbits from ARK, CSGO, Astroneer, and Osiris: New Dawn.
First...
Lord of the Rings Online welcomes you back to Winter-home with a new elk mount
It's time to decamp from Mordor and return to the pristine pocket wonderland of Winter-home in Lord of the Rings Online. As of yesterday,...
Paragon Chat invites City of Heroes refugees for a holiday soirée
Paragon Chat has put out the batsignal to City of Heroes fans still missing their favorite MMO -- saying that they don't have to...
Warframe celebrates the season with gift-giving and caroling
Is it better to give or to get at Christmas? With Warframe, the answer this year is "both."
The sci-fi shooter welcomes Tennobaum this week...
Roll a Mystic in Black Desert for fun and profit starting today
Fancy yourself a new Mystic toon in Black Desert? You can't play her just yet, but you can roll one starting today. The MMORPG...
Guild Wars 2 announces weapon contest winners, adds new in-game book interface
Remember that design-a-weapon contest that Guild Wars 2 was running last month? Well, it is all over now, and ArenaNet tallied up all of...
The Soapbox: Evaluating gaming monetization through the lens of Nintendo’s mobile history
Bloggers and journalists throughout the online gaming industry have been talking about monetization a lot lately. It's not just lockbox/gachapon scandals, or their relationship...
Enter to win a trio of Star Trek Online console factional starter packs from PWE and MOP
In honor of the launch of Star Trek Online Season 14: Emergence on console last week, PWE has granted Massively OP a bunch of goodies to raffle...
The MOP Up: Osiris New Dawn’s terrifying space ghosts (November 19, 2017)
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...
Bossland gives up on WoW’s Honorbuddy cheat following Blizzard’s 2017 court victories
If you weren't convinced that Blizzard defeated Bossland in its string of lawsuits already, you will be today. As The Nosy Gamer noticed, Bossland...
Black Desert devs responds to datamining dust-up with stat transparency and apologies
Remember a week ago when Black Desert dataminers dug up dirt on the game's so-called hidden stats, only to be booted off the subreddit...
Black Desert’s Reddit community erupts over Pearl Abyss’ datamining suppression
So how do you feel about dataminers? One player apparently datamined a significant chunk of info about Black Desert's so-called hidden stats, posting everything...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO soundtrack makes you the most nostalgic?
In covering MMORPG music for the past five or so years, I've discovered something interesting (yet not truly surprising). I can appreciate and even...
Vote for your favorite player-created Guild Wars 2 instrument of death
Power to the people! Guild Wars 2 has opened the polls for players to cast their vote on which fan-created weapon should be made...
Escape from Tarkov adds a small arsenal, eyes open beta, and celebrates Halloween
What happens when you take a city full of trigger-happy mercs and toss in even more weapons and instruments of destruction? Escape from Tarkov...
Star Trek Online tells a scary story for Halloween
Despite its utopian idealism, Star Trek isn't a stranger to the occasional scary tale or horror-themed outing. Captains in Star Trek Online have faced...