dungeons and dragons
The MOP Up: Overwatch gives smurfing a pass (April 16, 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...
Here’s how Neverwinter’s ‘Stronghold Marauder’ guild events will work
When the Shroud of Souls campaign launches for Neverwinter in May, people in guilds will be treated to a special type of event called...
Neverwinter’s Cloaked Ascendancy arrives on consoles today
Happy Neverwinter patch day, console fans -- you're getting closer and closer to catching up with the PC master race today as Cloaked Ascendency...
Neverwinter details the mechanics of loadouts
One character build cannot be used for everything in Neverwinter if you want to be the best at what you're doing. Certain situations require...
Neverwinter announces May 2 Shroud of Souls update for PC
Perfect World announced this morning another major update for Neverwinter. It's to the point that this game gets so much content I can't even...
LOTRO posts April event schedule, makes temporary store change
As Lord of the Rings Online players wrap up the spring festival this week, they won't have much time to breathe before the next...
Record of Lodoss War Online is launching this week
Following a short closed beta test, Record of Lodoss War Online will be launching this week on April 6th.
Record of what now? There's no...
The Game Archaeologist: How DikuMUD shaped modern MMOs
Even though there are hundreds and thousands of MMOs spanning several decades, only a small handful were so incredibly influential that they changed the...
Neverwinter breaks out Steam trading cards
Did you have a trading card collection when you were a kid? I went along with the crowd buying baseball cards, even though I...
Neverwinter proclaims the Day of the Dungeon Master
The dice are back, baby! A while ago, Cryptic paid homage to Neverwinter's tabletop roots by incorporating an Inception-like pen-and-paper experience into the MMORPG....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 109: We are all Dragonborn
Justin and Bree discuss our PAX awards, Guild Wars 2, Wizard101, WoW, LOTRO, DDO, The Repopulation, EverQuest, Eternal Crusade, and Pathfinder, with mailbag questions on Funcom's mystery game and Landmark-like sandboxes.
DDO and LOTRO suffer sub woes, LOTRO Issue 20 arrives this week
How would you feel if you paid money to subscribe to an MMO, and the company took the money without delivering that sub? Probably...
Dungeons and Dragons Online releases the Dragonborn race as Update 35 goes live
For some people, it's not enough to just exist in a virtual world with dragons and occasionally fight against them; they want to become...
Everything console players need to know about Neverwinter’s Cloaked Ascendancy, launching April 11
Everyone loves expansions, right? Neverwinter's latest expansion, Cloaked Ascendancy, launched the last week of February, giving players the opportunity to delve in and enjoy...
LOTRO and DDO extend free gift promotions due to account bug
Due to an issue with account management, Standing Stone Games has apparently decided to extend its dual giveaways in Lord of the Rings Online...
You can now play a Dragonborn on Dungeon & Dragon Online’s test server
You can't be a dungeon in Dungeons & Dragons Online, but soon you can be a dragon! Or at least the descendant of a...
Neverwinter, Star Trek Online drop Windows XP support
Still clinging to Windows XP? Hope you're not planning on playing Neverwinter. PWE announced back in December that it would be dropping support for...
The Stream Team: Doing DDO’s 11th anniversary dev dungeon
Did Massively OP's MJ hear there's a party? Yes, yes she did. Today is DDO's 11th anniversary, and the game is throwing a party....
Enter to win a Neverwinter Firesoul Gorgon mount from PWE and Massively OP
To celebrate the arrival of last week's Cloaked Ascendancy expansion for Neverwinter for PC players, PWE has granted Massively OP 50 limited-edition Firesoul Gorgon mount keys to give away to our...
DDO celebrates 11 years while LOTRO promotes its community
On February 28th, 2006, Turbine branched out into a new franchise by launching Dungeons and Dragons Online. In the years that followed, DDO would...