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Perfect Ten: MMOs that desperately need proper player housing
Here's something pretty encouraging to me: When I sat down to work on an article listing MMOs that really could use but lacked proper...
Stardew Valley’s iOS version is coming soon – but without multiplayer
October 24th. That's pretty much all you need to know if you're (a) an owner of an Apple device, (b) have a fondness for this...
Mad World shows off some gameplay videos that do, in fact, involve people running in circles
All around me are computer platforms,
Some are Windows, some are Android,
I would like to play the same game on them,
This game does it, thanks...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Conquest Resurgence Within, Rohan Mobile, Drawn to Death, El Somni Quas
Welcome back to our intermittent series on MMOs and other multiplayer games you’ve (probably) never heard of! Let’s run down a few more that crossed...
LOTRO Legendarium: Future classes, business models, and direction
For any MMORPG fan, the future often weighs heavily upon the mind. We get excited about what secrets might be in development. We wonder...
Here’s what’s going on with China’s video game approval process in simple terms
We all know that China is a big and expanding market for video games, and you probably know that this year has seen a...
Vague Patch Notes: WildStar deserves its shutdown, even though we loved it
Last week, when we heard that WildStar was being shut down, I penned a truthful, heartfelt eulogy for the game as it could've been....
LOTRO Legendarium: A new Lord of the Rings MMO enters the One Ring
It's a tale as old as time: Whenever an MMO starts getting up there in years and starting to show signs of age, you...
Leaderboard: Does an MMORPG’s publisher factor into whether you’ll play it?
I was genuinely surprised to see so many people flip out over August's reveal that Ashes of Creation will be using My.com as its...
The Daily Grind: How much of an MMO graphics snob are you?
Pretty much any time that Project Gorgon comes up in discussion around Massively OP, a discussion invariably takes place among readers that weighs the...
Ashes of Creation confirms subscription model, allays fears over IP blocking and region locking
More overseas publishing information has trickled out of Ashes of Creation this weekend thanks to players funneling info from Discord to the forums.
Readers will...
Funcom’s Mutant Year Zero is launching on December 4 on PC and console
"Funcom and The Bearded Ladies" still sounds like an indie rock band to me, so imagine this post is a song, shall we? The...
Video essay examines the indie MMO nostalgia trend
YouTuber The Hive Leader stirred up a lot of discussion this past weekend with a new video essay called "Nostalgia and Indie MMOs." In...
The MOP Up: Warface heads to PlayStation 4 (August 19, 2018)
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...
Hearthstone’s new puzzle labs is coming next week as its production director departs
Just because Hearthstone's Boomsday Project expansion is out and about doesn't mean that the dev team is done with its crazy experiments.
In fact, next...
Orake’s devs ask someone, anyone, else to take over this 2-D MMO
No, you've probably never heard of Orake before -- and chances are that you never will again, either.
The crude-looking indie MMORPG has been slowly...
Bethsoft: Dodgy reseller lawsuits, new media review policies, and Legends crossplay ultimata
Today in why we can't have nice things, it appears that Bethsoft is using its legal weight to crack down on folks selling fully...
Kingdoms of Marazia offers simple-looking but cutthroat multiplayer real-time strategy
It seems so long ago that we lived in the halcyon days of real-time strategy dominance in the PC market. Remember when Command and...
Discord has launched its own video game storefront into beta, and it kinda looks like a Steam-GOG mashup
We all rolled our eyes when Valve's new Steam chat client borrowed heavily from Discord's proven best practices for chat, but most people didn't...
Dual Universe lays out its roadmap through a 2020 release
Unlike some indie MMOs that keep an intentionally vague timeline of development, the team at Novaquark has mapped out the development and testing of...
