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World of Tanks to become a Dark Horse comic
What happens when you combine a horse and a tank? A comic book! Wargaming has partnered with Dark Horse to produce a comic series...
World of Tanks Blitz decreases the cost of ‘irreplacable’ boosts
World of Tanks Blitz, the mobile offshoot of the popular multiplayer tank battler, has received flak lately for its introduction of "provisions," strong in-game...
Ever, Jane delivers a small beta update
Fans of high society, letter-writing, and dinner parties can revel in the fact that Ever, Jane is slightly better than before.
The upcoming Jane Austen...
Let it snow (and more) in World of Warships
World of Warships might need a meteorologist before too long. In an upcoming patch, the game will be adding a weather system for its...
The Daily Grind: Should e-sports players unionize?
MCV reported this week that World of Tanks studio Wargaming plans to help organize a union for pro e-sports players. Wargaming European e-sports boss...
Working As Intended: Busting up the MMORPG nostalgia party
Last week, a clever Massively OP commenter, SC_Deadline, neatly summed up the ongoing Nostalrius emulator shutdown as Blizzard "bust up someone's nostalgia party," which...
The Stream Team: Happy birthday World of Tanks!
My, how time flies... or in this case, lumbers by on metal treads! World of Tanks has been letting players steamroll over each other...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with huge class rosters
After talking with Mark Jacobs the other week about the difficulty of balancing Camelot Unchained's 30 classes, it got my mind thinking of MMOs...
War Thunder’s new sky renders will melt your eyeballs with joy
Considering how much time War Thunder players spend fighting and flying through the skies, having that horizon look as gorgeous as possible is probably...
The MOP Up: Easter springs upon us (March 27, 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...
World of Warships deploys Russian cruisers in 0.5.4 update
World of Warships' 0.5.4 update docked on the live servers this week, complete with nine new Russian cruisers sure to bring a smile to...
Superdata predicts China will buy up more western gaming publishers
Superdata has released a summary of its research on the worldwide digital games market for February 2016, claiming that the digital games market sales...
The MOP Up: TERA’s mood clouds (March 20, 2016)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and often we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some of...
Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Are MMO communities real or fake?
We've come a long way in our discussion of Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt's book The Video Game Debate: Unravelling the Physical, Social, and Psychological...
Dark Age of Camelot adds revamped bosses and more guild symbols
When your friends in Dark Age of Camelot want to take a trip to Spindelhalla, do you pretend that your internet connection has died?...
Xbox One opens the door to cross-network play
The barrier between console and PC players has lowered a notch this week with an announcement from Microsoft concerning the Xbox One. The company...
Working As Intended: The fate of the MMORPG genre
I don't think I'm exaggerating to say that this past weekend was a strange one in the MMORPG community, when gamers across the wide expanse...
The Game Archaeologist: The sad saga of Stargate Worlds
In 1994, a science-fiction movie called Stargate took the idea of alien portals that allowed people to travel instantaneously across the universe and turned it...
World of Tanks launches 9.14 with improved graphics and Paris WW2 map
World of Tanks' 9.14 update is live today with a fresh trailer to boot. The focus of the update is a bit meta: It...
World of Warships preps the Russian cruiser line
It kind of makes sense that, sooner or later, Russia-based Wargaming would be giving some special love and attention to Ruskie hardware in World...
