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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Ultima Online suspends housing decay, placement during 20th anniversary month due to Harvey
During this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I wondered whether any MMORPGs with ongoing in-game costs and timers might disable them because of...
Massively Overthinking: Female characters and gender-locked classes in MMOs
One of the reasons I gravitated to and stick by the MMORPG genre in spite of its many ups and downs (oh, so many...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: NosTale, Aeon Rivals, War of Conquest, War40K Inquisitor Martyr
Welcome back to our intermittent series on MMOs and other multiplayer games you you've never heard of! Tonight we have four titles to highlight.
NosTale
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Battle Bards Episode 104: Something wicked this way comes
And lo, as the Battle Bards walk through the zone of the shadow of death, they will fear no evil, but they will listen to evil’s...
Perfect Ten: The 10 saddest MMORPG stories
Every MMO tells a story through the run of its life. A lot of those stories are pretty happy, too. Ultima Online may not...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 133: Gaming Gamescom
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Secret World Legends, LOTRO, sunsets for Ghost in the Shell Online and SkySaga, Closers, ArcheAge 4.0, Star Citizen's Gamescom demo, SWTOR, and WoW Argus, with mailbag questions on Marvel Heroes and MMORPGs as a drug, plus a PAX West preview.
Ship of Heroes talks indie scope, community positivity, and designing the world
Ship of Heroes is gearing up for PAX with drop-ins with community vloggers, including The Positive Gamer, who has a flythrough video of Apotheosis...
Shroud of the Avatar’s R45 launches Thursday, Oktoberfest-themed fundraiser begins next week
Shroud of the Avatar is gearing up for one of its like-clockwork monthly releases: 45 on Thursday. In preparation, this week's newsletter features a...
Secret World Legends fan recreates Franklin Mansion in The Sims 4
Today we want to give a shout-out to Massively OP reader Katriana for a really neat project that she shared recently! A Secret World...
The MOP Up: State of Decay 2’s multiplayer mayhem (August 27, 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...
The Game Archaeologist: Furcadia
Let's face it: There isn't really a huge pool of MMORPGs from the 1990s to explore in this column. By now I have done...
Hyperspace Beacon: Impressions of SWTOR’s Crisis on Umbara update
I questioned BioWare's delay of the latest update for Star Wars: The Old Republic. According to a post on the official forums, the team...
Star Wars: The Old Republic has launched Crisis on Umbara
You didn't like having to wait unexpectedly for the next major update for Star Wars: The Old Republic. We totally understand that. But you...
The Stream Team: Playing through Profit and Plunder in SWTOR’s KOTFE
With chapter XII of SWTOR's Knights of the Fallen Empire wrapped up, Massively OP's Larry and MJ are moving on to chapter XIII, Profit...
Perfect Ten: MMO experiments in transmedia synergy
We're not going to argue that MMORPGs are the dominant form of media entertainment these days, but they do have endurance and a devoted...
The Daily Grind: What’s your comfort MMO?
In all of the years that I've been playing MMORPGs, I've noticed that it is far, far easier to return to a known property...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 132: Filth TV
Justin and MJ discuss Secret World, LOTRO, Warframe, Path of Exile, Otherland, WoW, Ultima Online, ARK, Just Survive, EverQuest II, and West of Loathing.
SWTOR delays Update 5.4 by a day due to a last-minute bug
Sorry to rain on your Umbara parade, SWTOR players, but you're going to have to wait an extra day to dive into the August...
Mass Effect: Andromeda ends single-player support, forges on with multiplayer updates
It's the end of the line for Mass Effect: Andromeda, as BioWare announced this past weekend that it had no further plans to develop...
SWTOR posts Crisis on Umbara patch notes for tomorrow’s update
Nothing wrong with getting patch notes a day early, right? We mean, if you're getting them the day of, you're often too busy jumping...
