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’s your favorite voice acting in an MMORPG?
The SAG-AFTRA's voice actor strike last week has created a lot of discussion in our comments and elsewhere about the value of voice acting...
The MOP Up: FFXI revs up appreciation campaigns (October 30, 2016)
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: Six Halloween holidays from buried MMOs
There are two things to know about Halloween and MMOs. The first is that just about every online game in the known universe puts...
Tencent, Activision Blizzard, and EA among top-grossing game companies this year so far
If someone were to ask you which video game company was absolutely dominating the revenue charts in 2016, what would you say? Unless you...
SWTOR explains how Uprisings work, compensates for removal of content passes
When Star Wars: The Old Republic: Knights of the Eternal Throne lands upon us like a Star Destroyer made out of words, players will...
Superdata’s September report shows Destiny, WoW, GW2, SWTOR, and TERA doing well
Superdata's September games market report is up, and the console revenue rankings have a new old king: Destiny. Yes, Destiny has returned to the...
Perfect Ten: My demands to MMORPGs after 13 years
I've mentioned many times that my first MMO was Final Fantasy XI. It released in North America 13 years ago as of tomorrow. I...
Battle Bards Episode 85: Desert Calling
The desert is calling the Battle Bards, but are they willing to make the trek across these vast wastelands to see if the music...
The Stream Team: Death doesn’t stop SWTOR’s Emperor
When you are really committed to your goals, why would you let a little thing like death stop you? In SWTOR, the Emperor sure...
Hyperspace Beacon: Outside-the-box Star Wars The Old Republic gameplay
For some reason, this time of year always seems to be a down time in the activity of large-scale MMORPG development. Although Star Wars:...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 88: Miles per hour
Justin and Bree discuss AQ3D, Halloween, SWTOR, LOTRO, RIFT, and the health of the MMO market, with mailbag letters on the MMO endgame paradigm and SOTA vs. Camelot Unchained.
World of Warcraft releases Patch 7.1: Return to Karazhan today
O frabjous day, Patch 7.1: Return to Karazhan has arrived in World of Warcraft! The content update marks World of Warcraft's first patch in...
Ultima Online rolls out Halloween, with PU95’s artisan festival next week
Halloween has arrived in Ultima Online, but the big news for the classic sandbox MMO is the patch arriving next week. Publish 95 is...
SWTOR starts laying the foundation for expansion’s new endgame
Less than a week after Star Wars: The Old Republic announced that it will be making sweeping endgame changes with Knights of the Eternal...
Jennifer Hale argues in favor of voice actor strike
If you play video games with sound on, you've probably heard Jennifer Hale's voice more than once: She's a voice actress with countless credits...
The MOP Up: Neverwinter brings the thunder to consoles (October 23, 2016)
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...
Eternal Crusade on why it’s rolling out ‘intermediate patches’
Eternal Crusade Senior Producer Nathan Richardsson has updated Steam players on what's on the way for the newly launched Warhammer MMO. Next week's patch isn't...
Global Chat: The buzz over SWTOR’s December expansion
The Force is strong with Star Wars: The Old Republic's new expansion, at least by all of the buzz that it's created thanks to...
The video game voice actor strike is on
The strike that U.S. screen actors guild SAG-AFTRA was threatening against video game studios will be going forward as planned, with the strike starting just after...
Star Wars: the Old Republic previews the mechanics of Dark vs. Light
The light side and the dark side of the Force are kind of an entire thing in any Star Wars media, especially Star Wars:...
