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Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2016 awards continue today with our award for Best Popcorn MMO of 2016, which is a brand-new award on MOP this year and was...

Where are you spending your winter holidays? Trove is making a compelling case that you should hunker down in its pixelated, voxelated world for...

Back in November, we reported on the rollout of Hellion, a PvP-centric multiplayer sci-fi survival sandbox aiming for a Jaunary early access launch. Today,...

What are MMO NPCs good for, really? Usually they're either part of the quest system, trainers or vendors, or targets for our sharp, pointy...

The Elder Scrolls Online, the MMORPG once infamous for eschewing holidays, is following up its inaugural autumn bash with a winter party called the New...

As 2016 comes to a close, Crowfall finds itself in pre-alpha testing involving the so-called "big world." At this point the community has many...

If you'd rather be fiddling around with player housing in RIFT than out fighting in the field, you're our type of homebody. Also, you...

ArcheAge’s big new 3.0 update is launching this week, and some big changes are happening with Revelation. And with big changes come questions, questions about...

The Elder Scrolls Online plans to release its next big update in February 2017. No solid date has been revealed, but we do have a name...

Asking whether Star Trek or Star Wars is the better science fiction series is like asking whether Game of Thrones or The Tudors is...

The streets of Gadgetzan are not mean right now in Hearthstone. (The game where they originated doesn't even have streets, just packed-dirt paths.) But...

Ever wondered how it is that game designers actually build the locations you'll be tromping all over in MMOs? The latest Sea of Thieves...

Since ancient times, the Keepers of Albion have prowled the wilds of Albion Online, rejecting civilization and venerating the wild. The latest lore video...

This week in our tour through MMO blog posts, we're going to witness a lot of evaluations of recent update and expansion launches that...

The Crowfall team is not taking Thanksgiving off but is instead running its biggest to date. Doesn't that make you feel like a slacker...

It's Thanksgiving here in the US, and we wish you all a happy one, whether you're celebrating locally or not. For this week's Massively Overthinking...

I agonized all week over which of my favorite titles, The Secret World or EverQuest II, would get the honor of being the subject of...

It's the holiday once again, and somehow I've wound up on Thanksgiving Day here in the US. You may not be reading this on...

Soon, you will be exploring a shattered landscape rife with the bones of the fallen, awash in a sea of wrath and human misery....

Shroud of the Avatar's Release 36 lands today, a little bit early because of next week's major holiday, Black Friday, which is preceded by...