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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The Daily Grind: What should SWTOR do to pull out of its funk?
Is it just me, or does Star Wars: The Old Republic seem to be in a serious funk this year? I mean, the game...
SWTOR delivers anniversary gifts, runs a holiday bonus XP event, and patches in a new warzone
Happy birthday SWTOR!
It has been six years since BioWare's MMORPG launched, and that means plenty of presents for everyone. In addition to previous year's...
The MOP Up: Heroes of the Storm mains Hanzo (December 10, 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...
Amazon stops selling digital cards for Star Wars: The Old Republic
You can no longer purchase digital time cards or Cartel Coins for Star Wars: The Old Republic through Amazon. This is clearly a sign...
Massively Overthinking: The best and worst MMO developer quotes of 2017
Think of all the wacky things devs have said in public in front of gamers and journalists this year.
Now imagine what gets said behind...
Chaos Theory: Exploring Secret World Legend’s anima allocation and other QoL improvements
Remember that big quality-of-life update that Secret World Legends launched mid-November? Chances are your quality of SWL life did indeed improve with a number...
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR, it’s time to destroy the Eternal Empire
Those players who were looking for consequence in their Star Wars: The Old Republic storyline can, I'm glad to say, look to Knights of...
Perfect Ten: The healthiest live MMORPGs at the end of 2017
As Counting Crows told us, it's been a long December, although the fact that it has also only just started being December speaks to...
Star Wars: The Old Republic is holding a Thursday livestream with author Timothy Zahn
Timothy Zahn is kind of a big deal for Star Wars fiction. Yes, he helped develop the most recent bit of Star Wars: The...
EA patches Star Wars Battlefront 2 as petition asking Lucasfilm to drop EA reaches 120K sigs
How hard is EA trying to salvage its rep hit from the Star Wars Battlefront 2 drama? It's hard to judge right now. This...
Eternal Crusade considers battle royale mode, can’t comment on status of lead designer
Even Warhammer 40K Eternal Crusade might be jumping on the battle royale bandwagon. That's according to Behaviour Interactive's latest pair of player-directed Q&A posts.
"We...
The Game Archaeologist: Vanguard Saga of Heroes
The significance of Vanguard's development, release, long-running drama, second chance, and eventual closure should be of great interest not just to game historians but...
Massively Overthinking: Taking risks in MMORPGs
Last weekend, Brendan wrote a great column on how to stay safe from gankers in EVE Online, noting that the newbies are commonly given...
World of Warcraft’s 7.3.5 begins testing as allied race, environment, and zone scaling spoilers abound
So the latest raid for World of Warcraft is out now, but perhaps you don't have a regular raid group. What will you do...
EA caught in lie over Star Wars Battlefront II customization, brings lootbox madness to UFC 3
Among the controversy of EA's pay-to-win lockboxes in Star Wars Battlefront II emerges a rather reasonable question: Why didn't the studio create and use...
Are rank-and-file devs benefiting from MMO publisher ‘money-grabs’? Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs weighs in
Last week, Massively OP's Eliot Lefebvre wrote a (fantastic) Soapbox editorial arguing that Star Wars Battlefront II (and its concomitant monetization dust-up) is merely...
Red Dead Redemption publisher president defends lockboxes
Not everyone in the video game industry is shying away from lockboxes or denouncing them outright. Take-Two Interactive President Karl Slatoff took the side...
Hyperspace Beacon: First impressions of SWTOR’s Chiss flashpoint
Yesterday, Star Wars: The Old Republic launched update 5.6, which gave us many new quality-of-life changes to the game as well as our first...
The Stream Team: The final KOTFE chapter in SWTOR
It has been quite the journey through SWTOR's Knights of the Fallen Empire for Massively OP's MJ and Larry, and they couldn't have done...
EA lockbox debacle wipes out billions in stock as SuperData forecasts regulation
It looks as though the rebels may have defeated the empire -- or at least struck a mighty blow to give the latter pause.
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