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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...
Gran Skrea might be the indie MMO gem you’ve been seeking
Ever since launching on Steam early access back in June, the indie fantasy sandbox Gran Skrea Online has been doing its best to attract...
Zeal is an upcoming MMOARPG with PvP, PvE, 15 classes, and no grinding
Here comes a new one to the MassivelyOP pages! It's an MMO called Zeal, which developer Lycanic Studios bills as "an indie action RPG...
Global Chat: Getting a handle on Legends of Aria
One of the great benefits of reading the wealth of MMO blogs out there is that you can touch base on a huge variety...
CCP has obliquely confirmed it’s working on a brand-new ‘action MMO’
Remember back in December, when the gaming world noticed that CCP's hiring page sought a lead designer to run "a new and highly ambitious...
Fractured’s Kickstarter has just fully funded; stay tuned for this afternoon’s Q&A livestream
As Fractured counts down the final two days of its Kickstarter campaign, it looks as though the indie MMO has pulled it off: Just...
Project Oasis World looks like GTAO with all the murder and mayhem stripped out
So here's a new one for us: It's a game called Project Oasis World, and that name seems apt because while it's technically an...
Saga of Lucimia updates its four-year-old grouping manifesto
It's a little strange to consider that Saga of Lucimia has been around in development for four years now, but that's the gestation period...
The Daily Grind: What exactly defines an ‘indie’ MMORPG studio?
Earlier this week, I happened to see a mainstream website refer to ArtCraft as an indie studio, and it jolted me. ArtCraft, as anybody...
Want to try Legends of Aria? We’ve got trial keys just in time for the closed beta 2 launch!
It's a big day for indie MMORPG Legends of Aria, as its second closed beta official kicks off with a server wipe and a...
Perfect Ten: Best MMO debuts by year, 2007-2017
Continuing from my previous column that went back to 1997, I'm going to be running through the second decade of graphical MMORPG launches and...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Unpacking Guild Wars 2’s PR nightmare
Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll have noticed that two Guild Wars 2 developers were cut loose last week after a heated Twitter...
It’s starting to look like Valve is trying to murder SteamSpy on purpose
Back in April, Valve announced new supposedly privacy-oriented changes for Steam that had what everyone assumed to be an unintended (and unannounced) side-effect: It...
Square Enix scoops up Boundless, setting it up for a late 2018 launch
It's been a while since we last caught up with Boundless, that quirky voxel sandbox that might be better known by its former title,...
