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RIFT progression server activates its first two raids
Yesterday RIFT's progression server took a step forward, pushing the line of content forward with some old endgame activities.
Two 10-player raids, Drowned Halls and...
TERA delivers impressive new character abilities with the Godsfall patch
The latest update for TERA on PC brings characters to new heights of power. Not just because you're acquiring all sorts of commendations and...
Closers invites players to take part in new challenges at the planar gate
If you've got a need for some new challenges in Closers, possibly of the planar variety, you'll get plenty out of the new Planar...
Final Fantasy XIV confirms its next major patch in late May
If you were watching the most recent Final Fantasy XIV live letter, we can only hope you speak Japanese. It would be pretty hard...
The Daily Grind: Do you have a ‘guilty pleasure’ MMO?
As comments and tweets and nastygrams in my inbox have repeatedly demonstrated over the years, it doesn't matter whether you've put in years of...
Dauntless charges into open beta on May 24
Dauntless is a game in which fleshy mortals willingly attack beasts twenty times their size, so this is not a title that deals in...
Guild Chat: Rebuilding a real-life home and an MMORPG guild all at once
Welcome along to Guild Chat, the column through which many Massively Overpowered readers get the help they need to achieve better balance within their...
PAX East 2018: Guild Wars 2 game director Mike Zadorojny on Path of Fire, monetization, and more
It's not every day that you walk into a building dominated by an enormous griffon, the enormous statue replicating the mount in Guild Wars...
Kritika Online starts testing Windhome
The next chapter of En Masse's Kritika Online is currently being run through its paces on the test server. The studio announced that it...
Global Chat: RIFT Prime numbers
RIFT's new Prime progression server certainly has recaptured or recruited many MMO bloggers to the game as of late, and it is all anyone...
Final Fantasy XI gets ready for an April update
If you were worried that the end of the fiscal year meant the end of Final Fantasy XI updates, we're happy to report that...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV and evergreen options against new ones
Quick, you there! Tell me what's going to be in the next patch for Final Fantasy XIV, patch 4.3! Not all of it, though,...
Neverwinter brings the Lost City of Omu to consoles on April 24
Nothing like a two-month wait for new content while your friends on a different platform get to experience it all! Such is the continued...
Blade & Soul’s Fire and Blood patch brings a new raid and skill rebalancing
Ready to kick off some new raiding adventures in Blade & Soul? The newest patch, Fire and Blood, adds the 12-person raid Koldrak's Lair...
Perfect Ten: Why MMO progression servers are a brilliant idea
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been enjoying the journey through RIFT Prime, the game's first progression server. Trion Worlds surprised and...
Wisdom of Nym: A week after Final Fantasy XIV’s Eureka
It's been a little under a week since the Eureka launch in Final Fantasy XIV, and opinions about the content are pretty universally strong....
Sea of Thieves has more content than you think
One of the concerns that some players have held about Sea of Thieves, especially after its public betas, is that the pirate game appears...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite group size for MMO grinding?
Grinding has existed as long as we've had MMOs. In the earliest days of my time in the genre, grinding was the game; I...
Perfect Ten: MMO missteps that didn’t have to happen
Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...
Final Fantasy XI brings in new Dynamis and relic reforging
The newest update to Final Fantasy XI means the end of the game's Dynamis - Divergence areas with the addition of Jeuno, thus allowing...