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PlayStation 4 heads into the end of its life cycle, making console MMOs nervous
No console lives forever, although it seems like the more recent generations have enjoyed lengthy runs. Sony delivered some disconcerting news to fans this...
Perfect Ten: The unique pitfalls of licensed MMOs
Making a list of the "biggest" MMOs currently running is always an exercise in frustration. It's easy to put a few things on the...
The Daily Grind: What’s your underdog MMO?
It's easy to take pot shots at Champions Online these days, what with Cryptic hyping up its duration after years of stagnant development. But...
Star Trek Online adds a new console episode, brings back the Infinity lockbox
Star Trek Online's console versions are once again catching up to the PC build, thanks to the addition of The Renegade's Regret featured episode....
Neverwinter details the cursed lands of Ravenloft and Barovia zone
The world of Ravenloft is a perfectly nice place to visit in Neverwinter. There are slight caveats, of course; to really enjoy it you...
The Daily Grind: What made City of Heroes work so well?
Although City of Heroes is not coming back (I think we all need to come to terms with that), many successors are waiting in...
One Shots: First MMO loves
What was your first? Not necessarily the first MMORPG you ever played, but the first that made you fall in love with that game...
Neverwinter gets bitten by Ravenloft’s gothic horror
Dungeons and Dragons Online isn't the only MMO that's vacationing in the moonlit lands of Barovia. Cryptic announced this week that it is bringing...
Champions Online releases brand-new content with the Save the Earth alert
Champions Online is really not going to stop reminding everyone that it's become the "longest running superhero MMO of all time," chiefly by simply...
Perfect Ten: You got your MMORPG in my tabletop RPG
Tabletop games and MMORPGs seem like they would go well together, but remarkably they often don't. That's true for several reasons, but one of...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 169: Farscape and RuneScape
Justin and Bree discuss WoW, Trove, Secret World Legends, RuneScape and Jagex, Amazon's New World, PWE MMO sunsets, Star Trek Online's new business model, SWTOR, and ESO, plus mailbag topics on the Guild Wars 1 graphics update and crafting MMOs. And yes, we talk Farscape too!
Star Trek Online previews the upcoming Gamma Task Force for Victory is Life
You've always known that there's going to be a new reputation coming along with the next Star Trek Online patch, because of course there...
The MOP Up: Battlerite royale (May 6, 2018)
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...
Star Trek Online is discontinuing monthly subscription purchases
There's a business model shift taking place for Star Trek Online, although you could argue it's a somewhat lateral shift. The game will no...
Unpacking the Star Trek mission crate (with Star Trek Online)
When it arrived, my administrative assistant in my day job -- who just so happens to be a die-hard Star Trek fan -- brought...
Perfect World is sunsetting Swordsman Online and Jade Dynasty as teams move on to ‘bigger and better things’
Perfect World announced two sunsets yesterday: Four-year-old Swordsman Online and nine-year-old Jade Dynasty will close down in June. Here's the official announcement for Swordsman...
The MOP Up: Neverwinter’s Lost City of Omu arrives on consoles (April 29, 2018)
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: A well-rounded Hobbit (breakfast)
With the prodigious and well-known appetite of Hobbits, it's a total surprise to me that the Shire hasn't been stripped bare with these creatures'...
The Stream Team: Doing the Star Trek Online Delta recruit thing
Star Trek Online is allowing players to make Delta recruits, and Massively OP's MJ wants in on that action! It gives her a chance...
Enter to win a Neverwinter painted spider mount on Xbox One and PS4 from PWE and MOP!
To celebrate the arrival of the Lost City of Omu expansion for Neverwinter on console this week, PWE has granted Massively OP 20 Painted Spider mount keys to give...
