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The MOP Up: TERA’s creepy cat mounts (November 15, 2015)
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 Daily Grind: Do you play MMOs contrary to their design?
If you play Final Fantasy XIV, you know that it is not a game that rewards players for playing multiple characters. Quite the opposite, in...
The Stream Team: Get your EverQuest and EverQuest II beta keys!
Have you wanted to get into EverQuest and/or EverQuest II's expansion betas but haven't preordered the necessary expansion to do so? Then today is...
World of Warcraft wraps up its Legion class previews with Druid and Rogue
There are a lot of leather-wearing classes in World of Warcraft at this point, and two of them are sharing the last round of...
World of Warcraft outlines the changes coming to Monk
Monks are the only baseline class that's been added to World of Warcraft since the game's launch - two hero classes have been added...
World of Warcraft outlines the changes coming to Shaman and Warrior in Legion
Big changes are coming to every single class in World of Warcraft when the next expansion goes live. The official site has already shown...
World of Warcraft outlines the Death Knight changes coming in Legion
The next World of Warcraft expansion is adding the game's second hero class to the lineup, but that doesn't mean the first one has...
Guild Wars 2’s first raid wing launches next week
ArenaNet has just announced that Spirit Vale, the first wing of Guild Wars 2's first post-expansion raid, is launching next week on November 17th....
World of Warcraft outlines changes to Paladins and Warlocks
Paladins and Warlocks, together at last! They're like the original odd couple - she's a stalwart defender of the Light, and her roommate is...
The Daily Grind: Did BlizzCon make you want to resub to WoW?
It's a running joke among MMO players that BlizzCon is bad for our wallets, not because we overindulge in murloc plushies but because resisting...
Not So Massively: BlizzCon 2015 (November 9, 2015)
Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...
World of Warcraft Mages won’t change radically in Legion
Blizzard has released a new dev blog previewing the changes in store for Mages in World of Warcraft's upcoming Legion expansion. Mages are "in a...
Wisdom of Nym: Analyzing Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 3.1 notes
There are a lot of things that I really like about Final Fantasy XIV, a fact that should come as a surprise to practically...
World of Warcraft begins its examination of class design with Hunters and Priests
One of the facts repeated throughout BlizzCon was that classes and class fantasies will be getting overhauled in World of Warcraft's next expansion. So...
Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns is coming to China on November 20
Chinese news site 17173.com is reporting that Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns will be releasing in the country on November 20th.
The launch of...
The MOP Up: KingsIsle’s new game (November 8th, 2015)
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...
One Shots: Don’t be crabby
I don't think I could take the blow to my ego to boot up and play something called Dragomon Hunter, but then again, I...
The Daily Grind: Did BlizzCon deliver on your expectations?
It's not exactly a stretch to say that Blizzard Entertainment casts a long shadow over the field of online gaming. World of Warcraft remains...
BlizzCon 2015: World of Warcraft Legion systems panel liveblog
How is transmogrifying items going to change with World of Warcraft's Legion expansion? What are the restrictions on transmogrifying artifacts? How do the artifacts work? What...
The Game Archaeologist: The PLATO MMOs
In tracing the history and pre-history of MMORPGs in this column, we've spent a lot of time outside of the 2000s and into the...
