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One Shots: On a highway to Hell
The Secret World has needed awesome mounts since, oh, day one, and it does my heart good to see players rumble about on hogs,...
Leaderboard: MMO RvR versus FFA PvP
Last month, we did a little post on MMORPG PvP asking about two-faction PvP and whether it was really suited for all the MMO...
The Stream Team: Entering Eternal Crusade’s early access (+ giveaway)
What's the deal with Eternal Crusade? Massively OP's MJ aims to find out. And from what she hears, aiming appears to be a bit...
Massively Overthinking: Old MMORPGs, disco, and pop culture phenomena
A reader named Rob provides this week's Massively Overthinking topic. It's a really good one!
"Why isn't playing an old MMO from a previous decade...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 49: Marvel Heroes 2016 interview
Justin and Bree are joined by Marvel Heroes devs discuss Marvel Heroes 2016. We also talk The Repopulation's engine switch, The Division's beta, and business model shenanigans in RIFT, Trove, SWTOR, and The Secret World.
Hyperspace Beacon: How to approach SWTOR as a total newbie
My experience with World of Warcraft is minimal. I played the game for about a month just after The Burning Crusade launched. I have hopped...
H1Z1 announces ‘crate bundles’ for the cash shop
Last week, Daybreak announced a monetization change for zombie survival box H1Z1 that almost slipped under our radar: The studio is adding bundles of...
Ultima Online’s next patch lands this March
Ultima Online latest newsletter, part of a new initiative to insert itself into your inbox, reveals the Broadsword team is hard at work on...
The MOP Up: Dungeons & Drama Online (January 31, 2016)
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...
Why isometric sandbox Wild Terra is switching to 3-D models
Hardcore sandbox Wild Terra's latest dev diary digs into the guts of how it came to the decision to switch the sprite-based character animation...
One Shots: Kneel before Zod
As if MMOs didn't already give us big enough heads, what with everyone treating us as if we were the saviors of the world...
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s story stream talks about resuming romance and future story developments
The next chapter of Knights of the Fallen Empire is coming out in early February, and it's reintroducing a major character to players of...
EA says SWTOR’s sub numbers were way up last quarter
Good news for MMORPG players coming from the preliminary EA quarterly financial results:
"In Q3, STAR WARS™: The Old Republic grew to its highest subscriber...
Global Chat: Oculus Rift, GW2’s philosophy shift, and emulator exploration
The high cost of Oculus Rift brought a lot of discussion to the MMO blogosphere recently, with writers taking sides for and against the...
SWTOR is putting lockboxes inside of other lockboxes
Star Wars: The Old Republic apparently couldn't stand to see RIFT hogging the business model drama spotlight today and has issued a new proclamation...
SWTOR shakes up crafting and instant-60 gear for Update 4.1
We anticipate some very mixed emotions from the announced changes to gear and crafting in the next big update for Star Wars: The Old...
Eternal Crusade is now live on Steam early access with a new publisher
As promised, Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade has closed down its founders program and gone live on Steam's early access platform.
Now labeled a "massively multiplayer...
How Star Wars: The Old Republic won me over with its endgame
I walked away from last week's Star Wars: The Old Republic livestream pretty happy. Considering that I repeatedly say how much I absolutely loathe...
Dark Age of Camelot is coming down hard on cheating
If you're going to play Dark Age of Camelot, here's a bit of friendly advice: Don't cheat. We're not talking about relationships (you shouldn't...
Hyperspace Beacon: Is SWTOR losing its MMORPG cred?
One of the recurring gamer complaints about Star Wars: The Old Republic is that it's becoming less and less an MMORPG over time. With Knights of the...
