early access
Gloria Victis finally has playable female toons
Gloria Victis' v.0.7.9.0 update may have a mundane name, but it's a big event for the early access sandbox MMO, as female characters are...
Choose My Adventure: Farewell to Project Gorgon
Out of all the titles that I've played for Choose My Adventure, Project Gorgon is probably the earliest in its development cycle. It's also,...
The Survivalist: A tale of two early accesses (and why Conan Exiles comes out on top)
It was the best of early access, it was the worst of early access. We needn't even stop there: It was the age of...
Perpetuum Online developer: MMO felt like a ‘no-win scenario’
At the end of the game's life, when the lights are going out and the developers drifting off to different positions, the most interesting...
Conan Exiles on the new teleportation system and de-MMORPG-ifying combat
May 8th seems pretty far away to me, but I bet Funcom is feeling Conan Exiles' impending launch is rushing up to meet it. In...
Daybreak’s zombie battle royale game H1Z1 has lost 90% of its playerbase since July
Polygon has a report out this afternoon sourcing data aggregator GitHyp, both of which are casting doubt on H1Z1's future viability as a game...
The Daily Grind: How do we solve the broken MMO dev cycle?
Massively OP reader Yuri has posed us an interesting chicken-or-the-egg question for this morning's Daily Grind. "People got burned on paying for unfinished games and...
The Stream Team: A new day in Osiris: New Dawn
It's been a while since Massively OP's MJ shared her adventures in the sci-fi survival sandbox Osiris: New Dawn. How is early access coming...
One Shots: First steps into a wider world
Every MMORPG player knows that there is something incredible and magical in the feeling that you get when you take your very first steps...
Pantropy works to simplify crafting and protect players from offline raids
With $24k out of $94k raised so far, the German mech shooter Pantropy has a long road ahead of it in its Kickstarter campaign.
The...
AdventureQuest 3D comes to a head with the Dragons of Ashfall
The third and final chapter of AdventureQuest 3D's epic Dragons of Ashfall is now live. After months of battling up and through a volcano,...
Bless Online looks ahead to new races, housing, and a possible console edition
Six months. Six months is the countdown timer from the start of Bless Online's early access to the game's official launch, according to developer...
Dead Maze unleashes the zombie apocalypse today
Where will you go and what will you do when the zombie apocalypse hits? You better figure it out real fast, pal, because it's...
Bless Online interview: Soft launch plans, why Gamigo bowed out, and avoiding pay-to-win
Bless Online is one of the biggest MMORPGs we're expecting to launch in the west in 2018. Over the last six years, we've watched...
The MOP Up: Black Desert’s Ninja arrives in Southeast Asia (February 11, 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...
Staxel is a cozy multiplayer sandbox now in Steam early access
You know what I like? Hearing about a new game for the first time that I can actually buy right now. Of course, this...
Multiplayer sci-fi sandbox Pantropy has launched its $91K Kickstarter
Last September, we first heard about Pantropy, a "sci-fi faction multiplayer shooter with mechs and focus on building and crafting" and a really cool...
The Survivalist: ARK’s latest exploit highlights how cheaters ruin official servers
Let's talk exploits. And no, this is definitely not a how-to guide! For shame! If you are a person who exploits, a pox on...
The Immortal Rift invites testers to join this month’s closed beta
How about a brand-new indie online RPG to brighten up your playing prospects this spring? Meet The Immortal Rift, a medieval fantasy MMO full...
Armored Warfare trundles into early access on PlayStation 4
Tragically, the PlayStation 4 suffers from what we in the industry call a "tank gap," which is a made-up metric that entirely relies upon...
