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The Soapbox: Sharing MMORPGs with my kids
"Dad, can I pilot your ship tonight?"
I turn around to see my seven-year-old son giving me Bambi eyes with his hands clasped because, somewhere...
Star Citizen’s alpha 2.4 is live on the PTU for all backers with first iteration of persistence
Heads up, Star Citizens: alpha 2.4 is finally on Star Citizen's public test test server for all backers, not just the elite few.
"SC Alpha...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with distinct visual styles
Given the choice, I am always going to pick a game with stylized graphics over realistic ones. This is for many reasons; it's partly...
Star Trek Online details its fabulous non-spacecraft rewards for this year’s summer festival
You can earn yourself a powerful new starship in Star Trek Online's summer festival on Risa. That's wonderful. But the respect that such a...
Star Trek Online: Agents of Yesterday launches on July 6th
Players of Star Trek Online are no strangers to going back in time, but Agents of Yesterday is something different. It's not just traveling...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 68: Dark and light
Justin and Bree discuss Darkfall, Landmark, Marvel Heroes, ArcheAge, Neverwinter, and ESO, with mailbag questions on community negativity, streaming, and commenters.
Earn a Vorgon Xyfius Heavy Escort ship in Star Trek Online’s summer festival
Slap on your sci-fi swimsuits and sunglasses, space gamers: Star Trek Online is bringing back the summer-themed Risan Lohlunat Festival come Thursday.
"All the fun...
The MOP Up: EVE Online phases out DirectX 9 (June 5, 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: Two hearts beating as one
It's not every day that you get married, either in real life or in a video game. Reader Kanbe managed to impress me by...
The Game Archaeologist: Five eye-opening videos about the MMORPG genre
When it comes to tracking down history for MMOs, I've found that there are an array of sources at hand that have preserved (unwittingly...
Star Trek Online shines more light on graphical changes
If any game doesn't need to offer players actual technical information about graphical upgrades, it's Star Trek Online. The developers could just say that...
Star Citizen updates alpha 2.4 on the PTU, honors the passing of a backer
In this week's episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse, Cloud Imperium's Sandi Gardiner and Ben Lesnick foreshadow the game's alpha 2.4 patch, which...
The Daily Grind: What theme song best represents your main MMORPG character?
In yesterday's Black Desert column, MOP's Matt Daniel joked about MMORPG mods that allow roleplayers to share their characters' profiles, right down to their theme songs. He...
Elite: Dangerous identifies issues with AI superweapons in the game
The most recent Elite: Dangerous patch had some issues, starting with the fact that AI ships were rocking impossibly powerful weapons that would destroy...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Why wave-ban Guild Wars 2 cheaters?
Last week, our very own Bree Royce summed up a response given by ArenaNet's Chris Cleary to a self-confessed hacker on the game's subreddit...
The Daily Grind: Would you want portable housing in your MMO?
For a long time now, I've had a very minor wish for an MMO feature: the ability to set up camp and have my...
EVE Evolved: How are citadels actually being used?
In the build-up to EVE Online's Citadel expansion, there was a great deal of speculation from both players and the EVE developers about how the...
Elite: Dangerous’ Engineers patch is now live
Fans of Elite: Dangerous have been waiting for the most recent patch for quite some time. The darn thing just seemed to keep getting...
Star Citizen explains 2.4 test pace, begins work on 2.5
This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse with hosts Sandi Gardiner and Zane Bien is all about alpha 2.4, which is currently still undergoing testing...
Elder Scrolls Online’s ‘personalities’ are a roleplayer’s dream
Roleplayers, today's Elder Scrolls Online blog post is going to make you super happy. ZeniMax is teasing a new feature called Personalities, the first...
