Megacorp known to MMO gamers primarily for its ownership of BioWare’s Star Wars: The Old Republic. EA has previously been the steward of Mythic Entertainment (which in turn once controlled Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot) as well as The Sims Online, Warhammer Online, and Dawngate.
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Choose My Adventure: Summarizing our MMO adventures in 2018
Sometimes I wonder how people think things work behind the scenes here at Massively Overpowered, so let me give a little peek behind the...
The Daily Grind: Do you start over when you come back to an MMO?
In looking over my history with MMORPGs this year, one trend leaps out at me: In pretty much every old favorite that I returned...
The day twinkle trees killed Ultima Online’s Christmas
In a pretty amusing Twitter thread in which game designers admit to goofy and horrible mistakes, Ultima Online creator Raph Koster owned up to...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 201: Under siege from new content
Justin and Bree discuss holiday events across the MMO world, PlanetSide Arena, SWTOR's Jedi Under Siege, Elite Dangerous, EverQuest, LOTRO, and Pantheon, with mailbag questions on MMO-like communities and ditching MMO quests.
Massively OP’s 2018 MMO Video Game Music Awards
We have been talking a lot about what we've been playing this year and what we're looking forward to in 2019 and beyond, but...
World of Warcraft is shifting the unlocks of artifact power and adding cross-faction elixirs
Remember when World of Warcraft launched and the developers specifically ensured that Forsaken and Human players couldn't speak with one another to keep a cross-faction...
Ultima Online’s Raph Koster says Fortnite is more like an MMO than we might think
It's like people are discovering MMOs all over again.
Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies creator Raph Koster recently expressed amusement at the culture and...
The MOP Up: Echo of Soul returns
Korean MMO Echo of Soul is now back on Steam early access after the title was shut down back around 2015 and 2016. It's...
Anthem tries to sell you on slick skins and inspirational speeches
There's no doubt that BioWare's Anthem has a lot of expectations and excitement resting on its shoulders, so it's a good thing that those...
Star Wars: The Old Republic celebrates seven years with firework backpacks
It's been seven years of playing in Star Wars: The Old Republic, and to celebrate the occasion, players can strap a volatile mixture of explosives...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2018
We've got a lot of awards going out over the next couple of weeks about the "best" and "biggest" of this and that. But...
Hyperspace Beacon: First impressions of SWTOR 5.10 ‘Jedi Under Siege’
Faith in BioWare products has been waning as of late, but Star Wars: The Old Republic seemed to always maintain a core fan base....
The Stream Team: Jumping into SWTOR’s Jedi Under Siege
New content off the port bow! Jedi Under Siege, the next chapter in the SWTOR story, has released, and Massively OP's Larry and MJ...
Perfect Ten: MMOs to watch in 2019
The MMO genre is in a strange and uncertain place right now -- but also one that is quietly thrilling. We've long passed the...
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s Jedi Under Siege update goes live today
You'll never guess what's happening to whom in Star Wars: The Old Republic's newest update, Jedi Under Siege. Believe it or not, the Jedi...
World of Warcraft’s Tide of Vengeance update goes live today
Facing down an impatient and unsatisfied World of Warcraft community, Blizzard is firing off the biggest bullet it can this holiday season with a...
Camelot Unchained teases ‘epic siege battles’ as beta development continues
Hey, old school Dark Age of Camelot and Warhammer fans, you might want to take a peek at the latest Camelot Unchained studio report....
Anthem player learns why you don’t break NDAs. Or why you don’t use Origin. It’s one of those.
With the line between live and beta in online games blurring more and more by the year, it's no wonder some folks have gotten...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG offered the best PvP experience in 2018?
Later today, we begin our giant rollout of end-of-the-year awards, a series I both love and hate - love because it's fun, hate because...
The Game Archaeologist: Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2
At the end of June 2014, dozens of online worlds flickered and vanished with the flip of a switch. It was a online apocalypse...
