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Perfect Ten: A small sampling of literary offerings from MMOs
Salutations are in order once again for our most literate and eloquent readers of Massively Overpowered! I bid you welcome to our numerical column...
The Stream Team: The Headless Horseman haunts EverQuest II’s Nights of the Dead
Massively OP's MJ has been hoping for something new in EQII's Nights of the Dead celebrations, and it looks as if she got her...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 293: Passing the Torchlight
Justin and Bree discuss Torchlight III, World of Warcraft, Dungeons and Dragons Online, EverQuest, Atlas Reactor, Pantheon, Ashes of Creation, TERA, Legends of Aria's new sibling, and StarCraft II, with a mailbag topic on difficulty modes.
EverQuest announces its 27th expansion, Claws of Veeshan
Perhaps EverQuest fans were a little concerned that Daybreak might not be able to put out its yearly expansion, what with COVID and...
Standing Stone, Daybreak, KingsIsle, and more MMO companies will fundraise for Extra Life 2020
The season of Extra Life is almost upon us, meaning all your favorite MMO studios are going to be dispatching their developers to...
The Stream Team: Frolicking in EverQuest II’s moon forest
As beautiful as the crystalline structures are, Massively OP's MJ can't help but love the lushness of the Aurelian Coast in EverQuest II's Blood...
Massively Overthinking: Are isometric MMOs more or less immersive than 3-D?
I was chit-chatting with MOP reader (and prolific tipster!) Panagiotis the other day about Ultima Online's big news when he hit on a...
MUD network and roleplaying repository Skotos celebrates 20th anniversary with retirement
While many old-school MMORPG players came from MUDs, I didn't: I didn't even know they existed until several years into playing Ultima Online and...
EverQuest II kicks off a prelude event for its next expansion and brings back Days of Summer for subscribers
Yup, EverQuest II is going to be expanding once again, and while players aren't getting a lot of details about this expansion yet,...
LOTRO Legendarium: Is LOTRO getting greedy with its fall content update?
Boars. Beets. Battlestar Galactica. OK, let's talk about one of those things, at least in a roundabout way, because there's no escaping the fact...
Massively Overthinking: Contemplating in-game advertising
Last week, EA announced that it would finally be removing all the in-game ads from UFC4 after a few days of intense complaining...
The Stream Team: Moon poetry and flames in EverQuest II
It's been a while since Massively OP's MJ has been able to advance her Blood of Luclin signature quest line in EQII. But today,...
EverQuest and EverQuest II are ramping up XP earnings, drop rates, and more for Labor Day and autumn
How does one celebrate the Labor Day holiday or the autumn season? If you're EverQuest and EverQuest II, you do it by...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft has no good excuses for not having housing
We are past 15 years on now, and World of Warcraft still lacks housing. This is, frankly, really dumb. And it comes up...
EverQuest II lights up Solusek’s Eye with Game Update 115
Things are heating up in EverQuest II with the release of Game Update 115: Reignite the Flames. The patch comes equipped with...
Massively Overthinking: Mixing and matching the best crafting systems in the MMO ‘verse
Longtime MOP reader Ken from Chicago recently asked us to talk about crafting - but he didn't want us to just list off...
Classic EverQuest patches in Necro changes, quest tweaks, and bug fixes
So it became a bit of a running gag in the Massively OP office this week that we became obsessed with August's EverQuest...
Meridian 59 and Storybricks’ Brian Green has passed away at only 46
It's with a very heavy heart today that we report that Brian "Psychochild" Green has passed away at a relatively young age. Green...
Daybreak has acquired Cold Iron Studios and its Alien MMOFPS [Updated]
We've updated the end of this post with the confirmation and press release; we've left the original reporting intact.
For the last year, it seems...
Massively Overthinking: Changing the mindset of the MMO genre
I recently saw a journalism professor argue that generating a widespread thinking shift in an entire profession can take decades. "You have to keep...
