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The Stream Team: Win a Wizard101 Battlemage Keep bundle
It's time for another MOP giveaway of awesome Wizard101 goodies! Massively OP's MJ has gotten her hands on a few Battlemage Keep bundles and...
TERA Claw & Order exclusive: A suspect admits to attempted kidnapping and extortion, but not murder
Attention all sleuths and gumshoes! A mystery tipster shoved this dossier under our door last night. It appears to be a transcript of a...
Global Chat: The MMO expansion lifecycle
With the ever-developing, ever-growing nature of MMORPGs, the expansion truly has a life of its own. By now we are well acquainted with the...
Wisdom of Nym: The last batch of Final Fantasy XIV patch reveals
You know, I seriously could have sworn that I publicly predicted the next Final Fantasy XIV patch would be out on May 22nd. But...
The MOP Up: Diablo levels up in Heroes of the Storm (May 13, 2018)
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...
Generation 3 is basically Pokemon Go’s One Tamriel: How Niantic has actually improved POGO
A lot of critical things have been said about Pokemon Go and Niantic in the past. Professionals that tried to defend certain UI elements still had plenty...
Wizard101’s Doctor Who event is bigger on the inside
Someone over at KingsIsle is obviously a big Doctor Who fan, because Wizard101's current event is a thinly veiled homage to that sci-fi series....
The Daily Grind: Do you buy the Daybreak-owns-Standing Stone Games rumor?
Buried in the Daybreak ruckus of last week was the rumor that Daybreak is not in fact merely the publisher of Standing Stone Games'...
Chronicles of Elyria places a premium on player communication
Bemoaning the current state of (non-)communication in modern MMORPGs, Soulbound Studios said that it has plans to bring back this essential interaction between people...
The Stream Team: Partying in Paragon Chat to celebrate City of Heroes’ anniversary
Celebration might not be quite the right word to use when referring to the City of Heroes anniversary, but that doesn't mean fans don't...
Kids these days: Fortnite fights a 14-year-old in court, signs 13-year-old to e-sports team
Epic Games is still doggedly pursuing supposed Fortnite cheaters. As we reported back in November, one of the defendants in Epic's many lawsuits is...
EVE Online Executive Producer Andie ‘CCP Seagull’ Nordgren is leaving CCP Games [Updated]
It's always tough when a development studio loses one of its top people, but today's news is sure to sting more than usual for...
Belgium orders Overwatch, CSGO, and FIFA 18 to remove lockboxes or face criminal penalties
Back in 2017, at the height of mainstream outrage over lockbox shenanigans, Belgium became one of the very first countries to take the problem...
‘We all can be heroes:’ An interview with Star Trek Online’s Chase Masterson
With a dozen members of the all-star cast of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine returning to reprise their roles for this June's Star Trek...
The Soapbox: Three augmented reality game problems (most) MMOs don’t have – and one thing they do so much better
I'd like to think that I'm kind of a healthy gamer. While MMOs take a lot of time, the nice thing is that their...
Police who killed innocent man during Call of Duty swatting incident won’t be charged
At the tail end of 2017, a Call of Duty swatting incident in Kansas took the life of a completely innocent man after police killed him...
Jukebox Heroes: Five great YouTube channels for MMO music
As a collector and reviewer of MMORPG soundtracks, I owe a great debt to fellow music lovers who take the time to somehow extract...
PAX East 2018: Ashes of Creation will launch alpha one this year
Ashes of Creation will hit alpha one by the end of the year, Intrepid Studios announced today during its panel at PAX East. The...
Massively Overthinking: How do you maintain your health while binging MMORPGs?
Kotaku put out a piece this week on how to game without wrecking your body, something that's probably bound to come up in the...
Wizard101 plans its 10-year anniversary while Pirate101 grooms Handsome Dan
With the 10th anniversary of Wizard101 approaching, the team at KingsIsle is squirreling itself away behind closed doors to plan a grand soiree. We...
