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Shroud of the Avatar fans plan Baltimore SOTA con for November
Shroud of the Avatar players are attempting to put together a SOTA convention this fall. Spearheaded by player Violation Clauth, the first annual event...
E3 2016: Black Desert on PvP, sieges, and lessons learned
Though Daum didn't have a booth at this year's E3, I managed to snag some time with Black Desert PR/Marketing Manager Rick van Beem. Given some of the...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Fan Festival tickets sell out within hours
A year and a half ago, Final Fantasy XIV hosted a fan festival in Las Vegas, and the process for buying tickets was... not...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 70: E to the three
Justin and Bree discuss E3, STO, ESO One Tamriel, GW2, UO, Sea of Thieves, Dual Universe, WoW, Marvel Heroes, Camelot Unchained, and four sunsets, with mailbag questions on gameplay tension and MH team-ups.
E3 2016: Previewing Elite Dangerous VR
At this year's E3, I sat down with Elite: Dangerous' Senior Designer Sandy Sammarco and PR/Communications Manager Michael Grapper to talk about the game's successes and...
Hyperspace Beacon: Seven things you didn’t know about SWTOR’s SCORPIO
Knights of the Fallen Empire has truly changed the storytelling ways of Star Wars: The Old Republic. And even though it’s popular to flame the game...
E3 2016: Master X Master might be the most MMO-like MOBA around
Despite Eliot's positive experience with Master X Master at PAX East back in April, I went into my demo at this year's E3 expecting very...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 3.3 in review, part two
Between all of the stuff in patch 3.3 and the plethora of reveals from this year's E3, my cup runs over with parts of...
The MOP Up: League of Legends fights in-house toxicity (June 19, 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...
E3 2016: War Thunder’s VR mode and Crossout’s demo
While I don't play any of Gaijin's games, I was looking forward to meeting the studio at this year's E3 for two reasons: the...
E3 2016: Sea of Thieves is much more than pirate ship PvP (and might just be an MMO)
It's been awhile since I've been excited for a Rare game, but pirate-themed, multiplayer sailing-and-swashbuckling game Sea of Thieves took hold of me just based on the...
E3 2016: Hands-on with Nexon’s LawBreakers
Going into E3 this year, I didn't think LawBreakers would be something we'd cover at MOP. I also didn't expect much out of it, even with CliffyB's...
E3 2016: Final Fantasy XIV discusses the Deep Dungeon, Xbox One, and the future
Whenever Naoki Yoshida shows up at a convention, you know ahead of time that Final Fantasy XIV fans are going to have plenty to...
E3 2016: A look at Blade & Soul’s new class, the Soul Fighter
Blade &Â Soul hasn't yet been out for a year and it's already gotten several updates, all good news for the players. While I had...
The Daily Grind: Would you play a Mass Effect MMO?
E3 news about Mass Effect: Andromeda has got me hyped for the series all over again. The single-protagonist (or antagonist, depending) storyline that's more...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMORPGs of E3 2016
With E3 taking up so much head-space this week, we thought it only right to discuss how MMOs in particular fared at the convention....
E3 2016: Check out actual Absolver gameplay footage
We still couldn't tell you exactly what Absolver is. Sure, it's probably not an MMO, but "online combat RPG" has no closer analogue. Heck,...
E3 2016: Perfect World’s Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Livelock
One thing that I see over and over in our comments sections when we cover Perfect World's MMOs is hatred for lockboxes and keys bought...
E3 2016: Check out The Elder Scrolls Online’s big presentation
There were big announcements for The Elder Scrolls Online at this year's E3, including the new universal level scaling system of One Tamriel. But...
Tamriel Infinium: The pros and cons of Elder Scrolls Online’s ‘One Tamriel’ level-syncing
Despite being a two-year-old game, The Elder Scrolls Online has made a good showing at E3, which really shouldn't have surprised me -- but it...
