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Path of Exile on the ripple effect of DOT changes
Moar dots! Grinding Gear Games has so much to say about Path of Exile's changes to damage-over-time skills, you guys. Reams. Whole manifestos. It's...
Perfect Ten: Exploring MMORPGs from the far corners of the world
Have you ever noticed that while there's an entire world out there, most all of the MMORPGs we discuss and play tend to either...
Path of Exile previews updated NPC models and adds new cosmetics to its store
Since Path of Exile's next major update is really heavy on story, it's the perfect time for the team behind the game to work...
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...
Path of Exile shows off some of the new monsters for its next expansion
So Path of Exile is launching its next expansion very soon. The team behind the game is showing off some of the new monsters...
Path of Exile offers animated teasers for Fall of Oriath
Video games are usually a pretty visual medium, especially these days, interactive fiction and Dwarf Fortress notwithstanding. It's why we all like screenshots. But...
The MOP Up: Scorpio’s doomsday device (April 9, 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...
Path of Exile discusses the fine art of templating item descriptions
Odds are good that you spend very little of your day thinking about how an item's stats are templated in your game of choice....
SuperData examines gambling practices across the online gaming industry
Gambling in video games has been a huge topic for devoted MMORPG players over the last year or so, as core MMOs like Guild...
Path of Exile is rewriting minion masters for Fall of Oriath
Heads-up, minion masters, which is basically all the lazy people who love clicky RPGs, including me: Path of Exile is making what Grinding Gear...
Path of Exile may have suffered a user data breach
Path of Exile may have suffered a data breach in March. We say "may" because even Grinding Gear Games isn't entirely sure what was...
Path of Exile teases Nazi-inspired Oriath expansion baddies
Pumped for Path of Exile's upcoming Fall of Oriath expansion? Grinding Gear Games must be too, given the parade of videos it's slipping out....
Path of Exile has ‘a lot more expansions coming’
Pretty much every MMO player dreams of sitting his or her favorite developers down to get the honest and direct truth. While Grinding Gear...
Path of Exile shows off the music and environments of the Fall of Oriath
Path of Exile is not a game where you are likely to stand around admiring the scenery very often. That's not because it's bad;...
Path of Exile on virtual reality, auto-sort, and offline play
Path of Exile's latest dev Q&A has a few nuggets of interest for followers of the MMOARPG. What caught our eye? Don't expect an...
2013 MMOARPG Path of Exile hit peak concurrency in March thanks to its latest patch
Path of Exile just keeps getting bigger and bigger in terms of both players and team size, and it's actually providing the numbers to...
Path of Exile is buffing the heck out of leaguestones
Path of Exile's 2.6 patch last week was a whopper, but it wasn't without issues, some of which are rectified in today's update. In...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 107: Dark Knight rises
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, WoW, Torment, Black Desert, Age of Conan and Anarchy Online maintenance mode, WildStar, Darkfall Rise of Agon, Path of Exile, and Revelation Online's soft launch, with mailbag questions on console vs. PC MMO fans and dealing with immersion-breaking mounts.
Path of Exile creates the industry’s first ‘transparent’ lockbox
We've all griped and grumbled about how MMO lockboxes are too much like gambling and tend to swindle players out of money for a...
Path of Exile lets loose with Patch 2.6 tonight
Just call it Patch of Exile.
This evening, the highly anticipated Patch 2.6 will go live in Path of Exile, and the relatively calm landscape...
