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The MOP Up: Final Fantasy XIV gets primal (March 25, 2017)
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...
Guild Wars 2’s Current Activities Team shoves kitties in your face
If you were hired to work at ArenaNet on Guild Wars 2, what team would you want to join? The C.A.T. people make a...
Blade & Soul’s Fire and Blood patch brings a new raid and skill rebalancing
Ready to kick off some new raiding adventures in Blade & Soul? The newest patch, Fire and Blood, adds the 12-person raid Koldrak's Lair...
Hyperspace Beacon: So SWTOR’s Update 5.8 happened
Yesterday, Star Wars: The Old Republic launched the delayed Update 5.8: Command Authority to the servers. BioWare now offers its first complete operation since...
Perfect Ten: Why MMO progression servers are a brilliant idea
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been enjoying the journey through RIFT Prime, the game's first progression server. Trion Worlds surprised and...
The Stream Team: Project Gorgon’s newbie dungeon is dark and full of terrors
Last week Massively OP's MJ entered Project Gorgon's first dungeon, but she didn't realize it would be a dungeon! There was much more to...
Wisdom of Nym: A week after Final Fantasy XIV’s Eureka
It's been a little under a week since the Eureka launch in Final Fantasy XIV, and opinions about the content are pretty universally strong....
The MOP Up: Enter the Phantom Halls — if you dare! (March 18, 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...
EverQuesting: An EverQuest 19th anniversary retrospective and party planner
There are MMOs that have been around a while, and then there is EverQuest. It's so old school it is old enough to be...
Get wet in DC Universe Online’s Deluge event
Dipping your toes in to test game content is for wimps; true heroes dive right in and go deep. A new event has arrived...
The Game Archaeologist: World of Warcraft’s Corrupted Blood pandemic
It began with an exploitable glitch. It exploded into an uncontained nightmare of death. It established a meme as strong as Leeroy Jenkins. It...
RIFT starts Carnival celebration, previews Tenebrean Prison warfront
RIFT's anniversary event, Carnival, is now raging across the game's live servers -- but not on the new Prime progression server. While the latter...
Blade & Soul’s newest raid pits you against a sacred dragon
It's probably not the most encouraging of signs when a trailer for an MMO's newest raid mostly features player characters lying down following a...
Snail’s mobile MMO Blade Reborn plans global launch on March 27
Here's another one we've never heard of: Blade Reborn. It's a Snail Games mobile game, and the studio is calling it a full-fledged action...
Perfect Ten: MMO missteps that didn’t have to happen
Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...
Interview: ArcheAge 4.5 Legends Return launches April 5th with dragon taming and fresh start servers
If I were to tell you that ArcheAge's next big update is launching next month, you'd tell me that it's too soon. And we'd...
Pantheon on mismatched newbie armor and open-world dungeons
This month's Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen newsletter is stuffed with images, thanks to features on gear creation and dungeons. Over on the armor...
TERA’s Male Brawler is here, as are free character slots
Feel like punching something hard in the face? Then get over to TERA, where the Male Brawler has joined his female counterpart in the...
Global Chat: Avoiding MMO activities
Have you ever noticed that you play it way too safe in your MMOs, especially when it comes to interacting (or not) with others? Aywren...
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating about Final Fantasy XIV’s Eureka
I think Naoki Yoshida has severely overestimated how much I wanted to chase after a Scorpion Harness again.
One of the things that I mentioned...