design

Today, I want to start thing off by talking about Final Fantasy. This is not entirely surprising. What may be surprising is that I'm talking about Final...

When I first pitched the Vague Patch Notes that ran a couple weeks back, it prompted a big long discussion with MOP's editor Bree...

One of those phrases we like to use a fair amount here is the fact that running an MMO is a marathon, not a...

Yes, it's another week in which we talk about abstract concepts that underpin the way we play video games, this time inspired by a...

One of the most important things to have when you're thinking about games and their design is reference material. It's one of the things...

One of the most consistently weird elements of covering MMOs is that there's a very simple and yet incredibly odd metric of knowing if...

Let me tell you a little bit about myself. I'm 36 years old. I've been a professional writer for about a decade now, and...

This is a story about a boy named Michael. Follow along with me for a little bit, if you'd be so kind. Michael was born...

So it's beginning to look a lot like the Overwatch fad has faded. It was a crazy couple of years there, but the fact that...

It's 2019, people. Let's do this. And by do this I of course mean learn to actually debate things in a way that might wind up changing...

Here's a fun question to kick things off. Should old black-and-white films be colorized? The key word there is "old," because there are a...

Here's a fun question to consider. What were Emblems of Valor and Emblems of Heroism designed to do in World of Warcraft? Yes, they were...

Somehow, Bethesda managed to persevere after the Great Canvas Shortage of 2018 to replace the Fallout 76 CE bags that were essentially plastic shopping bags...

If you ever need to know why we'll happily cover Star Wars Galaxies emulators and not Ultima Online emulators here on Massively Overpowered, the reason is...

It appears that Fallout 76 has become the latest in a long line of games that launched too early with ill-defined goals, trying to be...

You know that old chestnut about how the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist? The greatest trick...

I spent a bunch of time post-BlizzCon thinking about why World of Warcraft personally bothered me. Not why its design pitfalls bothered me; that's...

Ironically, the term "meaningful" has a long history of not meaning much of anything with MMOs. Back in 2015 I did a Perfect Ten about...

As I started watching the latest World of Warcraft video to whip people into a furor, I very nearly turned the thing off as...

The original Star Wars film was a passion project for a then-young George Lucas, and it was a project that nearly killed Lucas from...