A PWE studio known primarily for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, and Champions Online.
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The Daily Grind: Which MMOs do you want to play in 2020?
There's nothing like a new year -- and a new decade! -- to encourage one to make grand plans that may or may not...
Fight or Kite: Totally reasonable expectations for PvP MMORPGs in 2020
A new year is upon us, and I am especially excited this time around. The past few calendar swap-outs have been pretty stale from...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO boasts the best console experience?
2019 has been an amazing year for MMOs on console, with Black Desert paving the way to become only the second MMORPG in the...
The Daily Grind: What is the best MMO holiday event minigame ever designed?
While Halloween seems to bring out a lot of spooky instances and trick-or-treating in MMORPGs, I've always felt that the Christmas season sees more...
The Daily Grind: What was the most painful MMO sunset of 2019?
It wasn't a great year. We'll do our annual run-down of all the sunsetted MMORPGs of the year later on this month, but we're...
The best Massively OP streams of 2019
Massively OP's Stream Team - with MJ and her sidekicks Larry and Chris at the helm - changed up its streaming tactics this year,...
Jukebox Heroes: A Charlie Brown MMO Christmas
I don't know if you realized this, but every year Bree asks me to whip up a column of MMO holiday tunes for Christmas....
MassivelyOP’s 2019 Golden Yachties: Most bizarre thing in an MMO this year
MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards begin today, and you'll notice we've given them a new name this year: the Golden Yachties.
Many years ago on Old...
The Stream Team: A Rogue’s first Christmas in Neverwinter
Why is there snow if it's Neverwinter? Massively OP's MJ would ask the hard questions, but she's not willing to chance losing out on...
The Massively Overpowered 2019 winter holiday MMO roundup
The holidays are here! Well, most of them are. Some of them might not be. And as is tradition here at Massively Overpowered, we...
Magic Legends will let you swap classes and form three-player groups
Ever since the official reveal of Cryptic's Magic Legends at The Game Awards last week, we have been hungry for more details of this...
The Daily Grind: What do you think about Cryptic’s MMO business models?
As a fan of Cryptic Studios and its games, here is something that I have pondered for a while now: Is the studio generous...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 251: New World, Magic Legends, and Corepunk
Bree and Justin discuss PlanetSide Arena, New World, Magic Legends, Elder Scrolls Online, Corepunk, Black Desert Mobile, EVE Echoes, WoW, FFXIV, LOTRO, City of Heroes, and SWGL.
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v3.0
Behind history are people and stories, some of them well-known and some of them obscure. It has been my mission in The Game Archaeologist...
Star Trek Online brings back Hearts and Minds for Friday the 13th (again) and a new Tzenkethi Red Alert
Boy, the Star Trek Online devs sure likes taking this one out of the mothballs, don't they? They did it for Halloween, they did...
Ask Mo: The hits and misses of MassivelyOP’s 2019 predictions
The day has come: the day when we look back at last year's predictions for this year and see how we did. Yep, this...
Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMOs at the end of 2019
Everyone is healthy! Good news! Every game is super healthy and absolutely no one has a terminal playerbase disease that may result in the...
Perfect World announces the return of the Winter Festival in Neverwinter and drops a tease for Star Trek Online
There's no place like Neverwinter for the holidays, or at least that's how Perfect World would like players to feel as the MMORPG gets...
Champions Online yanks event currencies and seasonal rewards to be replaced with more time-limited availability
We all know that Champions Online had been in de facto maintenance mode for a long while, although this year has seen a spate...
Star Trek Online fans mourn Deep Space Nine actor René ‘Odo’ Auberjonois
Another one of Star Trek's greats has fallen, as news broke out yesterday that Deep Space Nine actor René Auberjonois passed away from lung...
