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Massively OP Podcast Episode 54: Something fishy is afoot
Justin and Bree discuss Black Desert, Path of Exile, Guild Wars 2, No Man's Sky, World of Fishing, and AdventureQuest 3D, with a mailbag question on broken dev promises.
Join the Thieves Guild today in The Elder Scrolls Online’s latest DLC
The Elder Scrolls Online's Thieves Guild DLC is live today on the production servers. Those with active ESO Plus memberships will be able to...
Guild Wars 2 is not going back to biweekly updates: ‘When we’re shipping every two weeks, we just have to ship’
There's no way that the Guild Wars 2 AMA on Reddit could possibly top the big bombshell about Colin Johanson's departure that started the...
The MOP Up: Blade & Soul brings in the Warlock (March 6, 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...
One Shots: Hook, line, and sinker
Personally, I don't get the appeal of fishing in MMOs, mostly because I get super-fidgety if I have to stand still in-game for long...
Massively OP’s guide to MMORPG death penalties
In real life, when you die the penalty is... death. You just get that one go at things. But in MMOs, player characters are...
Guild Wars 2’s Colin Johanson leaves ArenaNet; Mike O’Brien takes over as game director
Game director Colin Johanson has been with ArenaNet on Guild Wars 2 for quite some time now, but nothing lasts forever. New game director...
Guild Wars 2 previews final Spirit Vale raid boss
"Sometimes when people who don’t play video games ask me what I do for a living, I just tell them I come up with...
Perfect Ten: Awesome (and unique) MMORPG classes
Class-based systems are one of those holdovers from tabletop RPGs that work surprisingly well in MMOs. I basically put up with class systems in...
ESPN muses on e-sports in Guild Wars 2, Blade & Soul, WoW
ESPN has a big piece out this week on e-sports in MMOs, chronicling the many (failed) attempts of MMORPGs like World of Warcraft to...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Maw of Lorkhaj trial will have a puggable normal mode
The latest Elder Scrolls Online Thieves Guild DLC dev diary is aimed at dungeoneers seeking to take on Maw of Lorkjah, the upcoming 12-man...
EverQuest II expounds on EU server merges
Norrathins knew that server merges were incoming for EverQuest II's European servers, but the what and when was still a mystery. Now, there's a...
Neverwinter promises June campaign, Icewind Dale stories
Cryptic Studios has just released a positively massive state-of-the-game letter for MMORPG Neverwinter. Executive Producer Rob Overmeyer begins by recapping 2015, noting that last...
Hyperspace Beacon: How to run a roleplay event in spite of SWTOR’s mechanics
I have mentioned before that my community and I roleplay in spite of the game mechanics of Star Wars: The Old Republic. It’s not...
MMORPGs celebrate The Revenant’s Oscars
If your MMORPG has a Revenant class, you'd best not be missing the opportunity to plug it today, as the movie celebrates its three...
Elder Scrolls Online DLC adds loot NPC, reinstates RvR forward camps
ZeniMax has a few last bits of PvP info to push out before The Elder Scrolls Online's Thieves Guild DLC goes live in March. Of...
The MOP Up: Top raiding guild quits World of Warcraft (February 28, 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...
Shakes and Fidget comes to Steam
For years now Shakes and Fidget has been amusing and occupying players first as a browser title and then as a mobile app. Now...
Guild Chat: Fitting a character to a new roleplaying guild
Welcome along to another issue of Guild Chat, my cozy wee corner of Massively OP in which we get together to help readers in...
The Game Archaeologist: Meridian 59
A colony founded through a magical nexus, Meridian 59 had it all going on -- until, that is, the portal to the colony collapsed...