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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SWTOR’s 3.3.2 tweaks performance, brings back Bounty Week
Star Wars: The Old Republic released its 3.3.2 patch notes today. Highlights include performance optimizations for anti-aliasing, specifically on medium and very high settings....
Drew Karpyshyn returns to write for Star Wars: The Old Republic
Veteran BioWare writer Drew Karpyshyn is back with the studio after leaving to pen several Star Wars novels.
On his personal blog, Karpyshyn confirmed that he's...
The MOP Up: All news must go!
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: Anarchy Online
"The future in your hands."
This was Funcom's promise to gamers in the early days of the 2000s. Even as the MMORPG genre slowly took...
SWTOR’s 4.0 BH and Trooper changes detailed
Class changes are coming to Star Wars: The Old Republic with the Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion. Today, BioWare revealed what it has...
Gaming industry reports identify leading studios and online trends
Details strewn within a trio of industry reports offer clues as to the health and direction of online gaming in 2015.
First up is a...
The Stream Team: More SWTOR giveaways
What adventures await MassivelyOP's Larry and MJ in Star Wars: The Old Republic? It doesn't really matter: They will be so focused on trying...
The Daily Grind: Who is the most insufferable MMO companion or NPC?
Oh yeah, I totally put Quinn up there in the header. You know this is going to be good.
Anyway, originally I was going to...
BioWare bangs the SWTOR story drum in new teaser vid
BioWare has published a brief Star Wars: The Old Republic video featuring lead writer Charles Boyd. He says that the Knights of Fallen Empire...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 30: Slumbering MMOs
Justin and Bree discuss WildStar, SWTOR, UO, ArcheAge, Asheron's Call, Otherland, Elite, GW2, and RIFT, with mailbag questions on early access MMOs.
SWTOR players find out when Nico Okarr joins their team
One of Star Wars: The Old Republic's newest companions, the gunslinger Niko Okarr, has been the subject of a lot of speculation and curiosity. While...
The MOP Up: Ultima Online’s new home
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...
SWTOR outlines its 4.0 Smuggler and Agent changes
Do you like shooting things and being stealthy in Star Wars: The Old Republic? Me too. And today's BioWare dev blog is for us,...
RPG MO whips up an indie free-to-play sandbox
Someone must not have spread the word that "Mo" is our thing, but that's OK; we're not jealous. Apparently there's a new indie MMO...
SWTOR is changing operations in Fallen Empire
Yesterday we found out that BioWare is changing Star Wars: The Old Republic's conquest system with next month's Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion....
Dark Age of Camelot’s Otherworlds campaign hits halfway mark
Dark Age of Camelot's multi-month Otherworlds event is halfway finished as it enters chapter 5 this week.
As with the other parts of the campaign,...
SWTOR is changing conquests in its Fallen Empire expansion
When the Knights of the Fallen Empire expansion hits Star Wars: The Old Republic next month, conquests will look a bit different. BioWare community...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 29: Pathfinder fading
Justin and Bree discuss WildStar, Ultima Online, Little Healer, Pathfinder, WildStar F2P, ESO's Imperial City, EQ Next's playtest, and the people in the magic box.
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s Jedi Knight and Sith Warrior changes aren’t bad
It's been two weeks since I visited Star Wars: The Old Republic in this column, and it's clear that two weeks is far too long...
Sword and Bored: Player housing
Mo is introduced to MMO player housing... and why some people find it frustrating.
