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Dark Age of Camelot welcomes back old players, Ultima Online discusses summer updates
Broadsword's keeping fans of its MMORPGs Dark Age of Camelot and Ultima Online busy this week!
Dark Age of Camelot is running a Come Back...
KingsIsle seeks support to get EverClicker on Steam; Wizard101 and Pirate101 might be next
First there was EverQuest. Then there was Ever, Jane. Now there's EverClicker. This sort of trend could go on (wait for it) forever.
KingsIsle, the studio...
The MOP Up: Aion has spring fever (April 23, 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...
Perfect Ten: Time travel in MMORPGs
Over the years, I've been fascinated with the concept of time in MMORPGs. It's one of those things that developers probably don't want you...
Crowfall’s destructible castles are hungry hungry hippos
One of my favorite early MMORPG PvP memories is from Dark Age of Camelot, where I liked to position my Huntress atop my side's...
The Survivalist: Massively OP’s guide to survival games, single-player and beyond
As Massively OP is centered on the "massively" part of gaming, it makes sense that my first guide to survival games was focused on...
The Stream Team: Happy sixth birthday, World of Tanks!
For six years, tank enthusiasts have been blowing each other to bits in World of Tanks. And on the game's birthday today, Massively OP's...
Wargaming says betting is ‘a natural part of sports’ and therefore online games
Earlier this month, we covered SuperData's report on the state of gambling practices in digital games, in which one of the analysis firm's claims...
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...
Dark Age of Camelot beckons adventurers to a new dragonish campaign
An undead threat. A clutch of dragon eggs. Buried treasure. An unnerving disturbance.
All of these are portents of Dark Age of Camelot's latest campaign,...
Multiplayer space sim Starfighter Inc. has 12 days to finish raising $150K
We've been covering Starfighter Inc. for the last few weeks in Make My MMO, but apparently a lot of you folks who say you...
The Daily Grind: How much do you really care if your MMORPG is super successful?
Earlier this week, we reported on a SuperData revenue ranking report that showed World of Tanks pulling in more cash than World of Warcraft's...
Dark Age of Camelot developers are looking to clean up unused games and general balance
It sucks when you have a great idea for a character, but all of the names you'd like to use have been taken. That's...
SuperData February 2017: World of Tanks perks up, Hearthstone is sinking
Happy SuperData day! That's the monthly holiday when we pore over the market analysis report, freak out over something doing well, freak over something...
World of Tanks players raised cash for kids during last year’s War Child campaign
Wargaming announced today that World of Tanks players raised a huge sum of money for children in need last year. Last summer, the video...
The Game Archaeologist: How DikuMUD shaped modern MMOs
Even though there are hundreds and thousands of MMOs spanning several decades, only a small handful were so incredibly influential that they changed the...
The Survivalist: Massively OP’s guide to multiplayer survival sandboxes
Welcome to The Survivalist! Ya'll might have noticed that I have gravitated a bit from my happy home of deep, immersive virtual worlds (possible...
Ever, Jane’s latest open beta update adds horseback riding, carriages, and new homes
Ever, Jane's fourth update of open beta has gone live this afternoon, bringing new homes and horses to the Jane Austen-themed period MMORPG. "We’re...
War Thunder’s Assault patch adds new vehicles and maps, with Assault mode on the way
War Thunder has pushed out another big update today, this one dubbed simply, "Assault!" -- exclamation point required! "The update introduces almost twenty new...
How Frostkeep’s Rend compares to other MMOs and survival sandboxes
I was pretty well taken by multiplayer survival sandbox Rend as soon as I saw it at this year's PAX East 2017, as I wrote...
