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Jukebox Heroes: MMO music for the holidays
I absolutely adore Christmas music -- in moderation and in season. I keep to strict personal rules not to listen to it before Black...
Interview: BioWare devs reflect on five years of creating Star Wars: The Old Republic
I know that sometimes it's hard to remember exactly what you were doing five years ago. I know that I had been playing Star...
Happy birthday, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and thanks for the trailer
Star Wars: The Old Republic is celebrating its fifth birthday this week, and to celebrate, Producer Ben Irving has penned a new dev blog...
Star Trek Online’s Borg come home for the holidays
What are you hoping to see in your stocking come Christmas morning? If you're like most geeks, chances are that you are hoping against...
Wizard101 and Pirate101 have ponies and decorations for all
When it comes to a great holiday event, what would you rather have more: in-game activities, giveaways, or cash shop sales? If you said,...
A cautionary tale on video game addiction
No matter where we come from or our walk of life, all of us reading this site have one thing in common: We have...
Warframe pushes The War Within to consoles alongside a gaming giveaway
It has been a month and a day since The War Within, one of Warframe's most-hyped content releases to date, arrived on the PC....
The MOP Up: The worst Overwatch players ever (December 11, 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...
Interview: ArcheAge 3.0 Revelation, fresh start servers, and the cash shop
ArcheAge’s big new 3.0 update is launching this week, and some big changes are happening with Revelation. And with big changes come questions, questions about...
A Parent’s Guide to Video Games: Condensing ‘The Video Game Debate’
Remember The Video Game Debate? The game research book edited by Thorsten Quandt and Rachel Kowert, the latter of whom we've been covering here since Massively-that-was? Good....
Wizard101 treks to the sandy expanse of Mirage
Many of us may be descending into another long, cold, and hotpants-lacking winter, but over in Wizard101, the players are positively sweltering with excitement....
Massively Overthinking: Gratitude for the people of the MMORPG genre
It's Thanksgiving here in the US, and we wish you all a happy one, whether you're celebrating locally or not. For this week's Massively Overthinking...
Elite Dangerous players accuse Frontier of ignoring combat exploit
If you thought that your politically divided family dinner table will be the most awkward situation this Thanksgiving week, then you need to haul...
The Stream Team: Win a Wizard101 Mirage Raider’s bundle
Are you leery about heading out to shop this week (especially Friday!)? Massively OP's MJ understands. That's why she has some new Wizard101 bundles...
Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the Blizzard fanatic
The holidays are almost here! Seriously, they're rushing forward at a rate of two seconds per second, or something. Which means that it's time...
The Daily Grind: What’s the friendliest PvP encounter you’ve ever had in an MMORPG?
Not long ago, my little family detoured from our weekend road trip to have lunch with MOP's Eliot and his wife. Video games were...
ARK’s Thanksgiving update includes emotes, new caves, and breeding phase 3
When ARK: Survival Evolved has a major update, it's a safe bet that new dinosaurs will be involved, and v251 is no different. The...
Massively Overthinking: Nickel-and-diming in MMORPGs
Massively OP reader and listener Suikoden79 recently wrote in to the podcast with a gem of a question I thought would be more fun...
Blizzard co-founder returns to the company after a 12-year absence
Over the past weekend of BlizzCon news, you might have heard someone exclaim, "Oh my goodness, Allen Adham has come back to Blizzard!" This...
BlizzCon 2016: Hearthstone announces Gadgetzan expansion pack
If you've ever been to Gadgetzan in World of Warcraft, you might not have walked away with an impression that you had just visited...
