fantasy
Superdata report shows Overwatch slipping, Hearthstone rebounding
Looking back at March's digital sales, the industry was up 15% year-over-year from 2016, Superdata Research reports. Mobile was the largest area of growth,...
Final Fantasy XIV talks about the new features of its Stormblood benchmark
Have you downloaded the Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood benchmark yet? "No," you say, "because I already know my computer can handle it and who...
The MOP Up: Warface meets Crysis (April 30, 2017)
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...
Wanna try new MMORPGs? Join the MMO Book Club
Long ago when we were between MMOs, my guild went through several months of playing a new game every week thanks to the magic...
One Shots: Through the portal?
The other day, Bree was complaining about how so many screenshots from modern MMORPGs suffer from a bland and monochrome palette. Coming to the...
Camelot Unchained’s Seattle studio finally has an office
Remember last June when Camelot Unchained startled everyone by announcing it was opening a second studio in Seattle? The team out west has been...
LOTRO Legendarium: 10th anniversary interview with Standing Stone’s Rob Ciccolini
As Lord of the Rings Online players revel in the varied activities of this year's 10th anniversary celebration, the crew at the newly formed...
EverQuest II delays The Menagerie, grants 3X experience all weekend
EverQuest II players know the game suffered some unanticipated and lengthy downtime this week. Daybreak says it was dealing with "technical issues with ...
Chronicles of Elyria answers player questions in a two-hour video
The Chronicles of Elyria team hosted a public community Q&A session, and players had questions. And those questions... well, they were answered. Extensively. The...
World of Warcraft breaks a popular add-on for world quests to fix performance issues
The current flow of clearing World Quests in World of Warcraft is pretty straightforward. You see that there's a world quest out there offering...
Final Fantasy XIV’s latest live letter discusses inventory, benchmarks, and housing in Stormblood
The anticipation for Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood is pretty high among the game's players at this point. It's just under two months away, and...
Pantheon shows the class you’ll never be allowed to play
There was a lot of buzz swirling about Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's hour-and-a-half developer livestream yesterday, thanks to a truckload of information shared...
World of Warcraft walks back claim that 7.2 is the ‘biggest patch ever’
In a livestream Q&A session, World of Warcraft's Ion Hazzikostas admitted that the studio probably shouldn't have slapped the label of "biggest patch ever" on...
The Daily Grind: Why is MMORPG server downtime still a thing?
Massively OP Kickstarter donor John has a very simple question to kick off our morning: Why the heck is server downtime still a thing?
"How...
Massively Overthinking: Are MMORPG players a minority in their own genre?
Deep in the comments of the MMOs-vs.-survival-sandboxes thread from last week, reader miol_ produced a beautiful comment about how MMO players have become a...
Path of Exile issues Patch 3.0 manifesto
Does anyone not get a little excited and cynical when they hear the phrase "game manifesto" these days? It's such a loaded term, fraught...
Black Desert warns players of possible account breach
Heads-up, Black Desert fans: Kakao just let its players know that their account security may be in jeopardy.
"We recently received a report that account...
Choose My Adventure: Failure to trade in Black Desert
Despite my best efforts, I walked away from my trading attempts in Black Desert having been wholly unsuccessful. I consider this a good thing,...
Enter to win a Marvel Heroes Omega founder pack with beta access from Gazillion and MOP
If you were curious about the Marvel Heroes Omega edition out on PlayStation 4 but didn't want to shell out for a founder pack...
Neverwinter claims 15M registered players across all platforms
Neverwinter has cause for celebration today: PWE has officially announced that the D&D MMORPG has counted over 15 million registered players on PC, Xbox...
