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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Massively OP Interview: Ashes of Creation on a new way to MMO
Today, Ashes of Creation takes a big plunge into an all-or-nothing Kickstarter campaign. Over the past few months, the MMO seemed to come out...
The MOP Up: Warface meets Crysis (April 30, 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...
Massively Overthinking: Are MMORPG players a minority in their own genre?
Deep in the comments of the MMOs-vs.-survival-sandboxes thread from last week, reader miol_ produced a beautiful comment about how MMO players have become a...
Leaderboard: Where do you draw the line between griefing and roleplaying?
On the Morrowind subreddit a few days ago, a player was recounting a particular roleplay-slash-griefing episode on a hardcore-roleplay Ultima Online emulator. The player...
Dark Age of Camelot welcomes back old players, Ultima Online discusses summer updates
Broadsword's keeping fans of its MMORPGs Dark Age of Camelot and Ultima Online busy this week!
Dark Age of Camelot is running a Come Back...
Video: Story vs. lore, Star Wars: The Old Republic vs. The Elder Scrolls Online
In the ultimate battle for your dollar in the MMO industry, two MMOs with rabid fan bases duke it out by serving you a...
This player is rebuilding Ultima Online in Wurm Online
One of the best parts of Wurm Online's Unlimited version is that players can run wild with their own custom servers, tailoring them to...
Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind will not blow your mind, but it will tickle your nostalgia
Over the last week or so, ZeniMax Online Studios opened up parts of The Elder Scrolls Online's Morrowind test servers to the press and public,...
One Shots: Lights, camera, frogs!
Just because you happen to be a humanoid frog doesn't mean that you've lost at the lottery of life. On the contrary, you have...
Funcom’s Joel Bylos on the difference between MMOs and survival sandboxes
Funcom's Joel Bylos features in a Twitch interview on Gamasutra this week talking up Conan Exiles and explaining the core difference between server-based survival...
SWTOR expansion trailer is nominated for a Webby
Here's a welcome shot of publicity for Star Wars: The Old Republic this week. Knights of the Eternal Throne's "Betrayed" trailer was nominated for...
Ultima Online prepares massive animal taming overhaul patch
Broadsword has been putting the final touches on Ultima Online's 97th publish all month, and as of yesterday, the release is on the guinea...
The Stream Team: The end of act one in SWTOR’s KOTFE
Massively OP's Larry and MJ have reached a major culminating part of the story in the SWTOR Choose My Alignment adventure -- the end...
Tamriel Infinium: Why I changed my mind about Elder Scrolls Online
When I took the trip to ZeniMax Online Studios to check out Morrowind a couple of months back, I was sitting at a table with...
Video: Everything you need to know about Star Wars: The Old Republic’s 5.2 War for Iokath, live today
After a week-long delay, Star Wars: The Old Republic launches its first major patch to the Knights of the Eternal Throne expansion as Update...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has seen the most improved graphics over the years?
In each of our articles about Black Desert's upcoming graphics upgrade, there have been a slew of comments about how the game doesn't really...
Leaderboard: Are you sick of MMORPG quests?
When World of Warcraft was in beta and I first gave it a go, I remember being absolutely captivated by questing. It wasn't as...
SWTOR sits on a brand-new superweapon
Now that we've watched The Last Jedi teaser trailer a few hundred times and steeled ourselves for a potential Death Star Number 4, SWTOR...
PSA: Pick up a free astromech droid minipet in Star Wars: The Old Republic
Star Wars: The Old Republic fans, if you haven't been paying any attention to Star Wars Celebration, at least point your eyeballs at this...
Eternal Crusade unleashes an Ork waaagh! campaign
If there's one thing that has always been associated with the Warhammer franchise, it's the terrible and overwhelming crusades that its greenskins occasionally unleash....
