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Just a month ago now, Pokemon Go's Chicago festival was completely wrecked by connection issues that rendered the game an unplayable trainwreck for thousands...

Pokemon Go players are buzzing today over the release of legendary Pokemon Mewtwo at the Yokohama, Japan, event, which according to Niantic allowed "thousands"...

In the pantheon of SOE's (now Daybreak) flagship EverQuest franchise, there used to be a whole family of MMOs gathered around the table every evening....

The bright side of the news that Ghost in the Shell Online will be shutting down service in Japan is that this is not,...

Gamasutra has an unusual piece from an Ubisoft developer this week arguing that co-op gameplay is the industry's rising midcore trend, one that he...

By now most of the world is aware of the massive political and economic crisis that's happening in Venezuela, with rampant inflation destroying the...

If you live in the midwest and are out only a ticket and a tank of gas for your trip to the botched Pokemon...

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...

We've been talking about exploitative gacha games and related business models on Massively OP for a long time, most recently and notably in depth earlier...

If you're looking for something to do this summer and you live in a big city, Pokemon Go -- or at least gawking at...

Massively OP reader and Patron Avaera has a thoughtful question for the team and readers this week. "I wish more virtual world games thought deeply...

Massively OP Patron Jackybah has a question for this week's Massively Overthinking that's probably going to kick up some dust. He wonders whether MMO...

With Pokemon Go trying to avoid explicitly calling itself an MMO, Massively OP once again has room for a top contender in the realm of mobile...

Monster Hunter World's reveal caught me completely off guard during its E3 2017 reveal. We'd already had a title announced for the Nintendo Switch, and...

Since there were so many early access issues with Stormblood, I figured I'd try to give you Final Fantasy XIV players a little something to chew...

Fancy a bit of the Far East in your MMORPGs? Shroud of the Avatar is making that wish come true with its unclone of...

The Elder Scrolls Online released its first expansion, Morrowind, shortly before E3 2017. MMOs rarely come up with mainstream media, but with Morrowind's nostalgia power, I heard...

The Dreamcast was a brief but shining aberration in the gaming world. Coming along years after Sega had fallen out of its position as...

Can you believe Pokemon Go is almost a year old? Remember back when there was so much PoGo news that we gave up and...

This time last year, I polled the Massively OP writers for their opinions on which MMOs had had the best year, or half year,...