editorial

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...

While we lost several painful MMOs in 2016 and 2015, 2017 was noticeable chiefly because we lost a large number of small MMOs, perhaps signalling a...

I love Smash Bros. I love the mascot battles, the random items, the hazards. And in Super Smash Bros Ultimate, I love the new Ultimate meter...

As we did in 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017 - it's becoming a real tradition here! - today I'm going to recap our annual awards and...

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...

Yes, we're going to talk about Pokemon Let's Go Eevee (or you can pretend its Pikachu if you just want to experience Pokemon Yellow again). No, it's...

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...

When something looks familiar and seems familiar yet is slightly and significantly different, it can really break your stride and cause you to stumble....

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...

Last weekend, my husband made the bold choice to let our young son play The Stanley Parable. I am not entirely sure the kid...