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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Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with huge class rosters
After talking with Mark Jacobs the other week about the difficulty of balancing Camelot Unchained's 30 classes, it got my mind thinking of MMOs...
SWTOR launches heist chapter ‘Profit and Plunder’ on May 3rd
If you have early access for the latest chapter in the continuing saga of the Star Wars: The Old Republic expansion Knights of the...
Hyperspace Beacon: Three things SWTOR’s Eternal Championship needs
Hello BioWare,
It’s me again, your average Star Wars: The Old Republic fan. You remember when I complained about Chapter 10 of Knights of the...
Star Wars: The Old Republic launches Visions in the Dark with its latest update
Are you of the mind that Emperor Valkorion in Star Wars: The Old Republic is an enormous jerk, or are you more in the...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG classes
Nostalgia has me this week:Â I've been thinking a lot about some of my all-time favorite MMORPGÂ characters, some of whom I can't physically play anymore...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 57: Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs
Justin and Bree are joined by Camelot Unchained's Mark Jacobs to address questions from the Massively OP audience.
Hyperspace Beacon: Dear SWTOR community, keep being passionately casual
Star Wars: The Old Republic community, I listen to your podcasts and read your sites nearly everyday, but I realized that it’s been almost eight...
BioWare is fixing the SWTOR sub cartel coin allotment bug
Observant Star Wars: The Old Republic players have been noticing that cartel coins granted to subscribers haven't been accruing properly over part of the past year,...
The MOP Up: Easter springs upon us (March 27, 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...
MMO Mechanics: MMORPG expansions vs. sequels
The recent news about EverQuest Next's cancellation has renewed the debate about whether or not MMOs should get sequels, which have given me plenty...
One Shots: Tokyo sunrise
"I've been playing The Secret World for about three years now, but even after all this time, I'm still regularly stopped in my tracks...
The Game Archaeologist: The Wish that wasn’t
First of all, "wish" is one of those words that ends up looking dang strange the more you focus on it. Wish, wish, wish,...
Daybreak appoints former EA and Zynga exec as new Senior VP of Games
MMO studio Daybreak has a new Senior VP of Games.
Gamesindustry.biz reports that Larry LaPierre, a 14-year veteran of Electronic Arts and former general manager...
Superdata predicts China will buy up more western gaming publishers
Superdata has released a summary of its research on the worldwide digital games market for February 2016, claiming that the digital games market sales...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 56: Ghillie nation
Justin and Bree discuss Black Desert, Marvel Heroes, The Division, VR, Landmark, Crowfall, EVE, and Tree of Savior, with mailbag questions on pay-to-win and Black Desert hype.
Eternal Crusade preps infographic for its launch outlook
Behaviour Interactive says Warhammer 40K: Eternal Crusade is at a "critical juncture in development," and the only solution is... an infographic.
Senior Producer Nathan...
Hyperspace Beacon: The importance of pacing in a SWTOR roleplay event
Last time I talked about roleplaying in spite of game mechanics, I didn’t really get a whole lot of comments. I don’t know whether...
The Warhammer curse strikes Dark Nexus Arena MOBA
Another Warhammer game bites the dust today, and it's a MOBA.
Whitebox Interactive CEO Jonathan Falkowski told players it will be sunsetting Warhammer 40: Dark...
SWTOR announces KOTFE Chapter 12: Visions in the Dark, due April 7
BioWare has just announced the next story chapter for Star Wars: The Old Republic's Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion: Visions in the Dark.
"In Visions...
Global Chat: ARK invents new types of griefing
Just when you thought you've seen every type of online griefing known to man, here comes another. In An Age grouses about how ARK:...
