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For Science: Academics blast APA’s updated resolution on games and aggression
My Twitter feed was on fire about three things today: politics, coronavirus, and violence in video games. The last entry there is all because...
The Daily Grind: What one thing in an MMO do you wish devs would delete instead of fix?
The house I live in borders a park on the back, which means I can look out my kitchen window and see a zillion...
Massively Overthinking: What one piece of knowledge would you like to impart to new MMO gamers?
A while back, I was reading on a non-MMO subreddit some comments from some younger people that made my head spin: They were informing...
Roblox is worth $4 billion now, clocks over 115 million monthly users
Hey, you know what's worth $4 billion these days? It's not your Magic: The Gathering collection, that's for sure. No, it happens to be...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 260: New World needs new ideas
Justin and Bree discuss Project Nova, Final Fantasy XIV, PAX East and the coronavirus, WoW subs, New World, and Daybreak, with mailbag topics on positive MMO stories, rogue servers, binge listening, and sandboxes.
Into the Super-verse: How City of Heroes welcomed me into MMOs
As we approach the first anniversary of City of Heroes' revival on the rogue server circuit, I wanted to take this opportunity to share...
Flameseeker Chronicles: What Eye of the North means for Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga has so far been filled with plenty of nostalgic callbacks to the original Guild Wars’ Eye of the North...
The MOP Up: Outlaws of the Old West wipes its servers
The survival sandbox that brought you Bigfoot (for some reason) is now triggering a region-wide apocalypse. OK, it's just a server wipe for Outlaws...
Massively Uplifting: Saving lives and wildlife, studios and gamers start 2020 with compassion and charity
A new year has begun, and many folks are looking ahead to a better 2020. And who might be making it better? Gamers! Many...
WoW Factor: Oh no, Visions of N’zoth is real bad
Based on a wholly informal poll based on what's going around the community right now, I've compiled most of the agreed-upon positives for the...
The Stream Team: To the rescue in AdventureQuest 3D
Storytime in AQ3D continues! The mayor of Darkovia, Gottfried Granemore, needs Massively OP's MJ to rescue his children, who were kidnapped by the vampires...
GTAO, Apex Legends, Warframe, and H1Z1 are among PlayStation’s most-downloaded games of 2019
One of the frustrations we always have when reporting on playerbase size in the MMO industry is that the console market is way more...
CNBC runs down the debate of violent video games and their effect on gamers
Yes, we're back on this again. The subject of video games, violent content, and their affect on players is arriving once more, this time...
World of Warcraft botches its third Battle for Azeroth PvP season
"Oops" is not something you want to hear from your surgeon, your kids in another room, or your MMO development team. But an "oops"...
MMO Cartographer: Gamigo’s voxel MMO Trove is a blocky treasure
Trove was not entirely new to me when I decided to return to its shores for MMO Cartographer this fall. I'd toyed with it...
Why I Play: How NCsoft’s Fafurion update saved Lineage 2 in 2019
I don't know what it is about Asian MMOs, but I'm inexplicably drawn to them. Maybe it has something to do with my background;...
The Massively Overpowered 2019 winter holiday MMO roundup
The holidays are here! Well, most of them are. Some of them might not be. And as is tradition here at Massively Overpowered, we...
Fight or Kite: 2010-2019, the decade when PvP boomed and MMOs languished
The end of the decade is upon us. Many are now reflecting on how our lives have changed over the past 10 years. We’ve...
Massively Uplifting: MMO fundraisers, GW2 raid class, and saving trees and cats
Being grateful isn't relegated to just one month, but November is when many people -and gamers - double-down on the things they are thankful...
Roblox’s latest event taps some Star Wars Rise of Skywalker transmedia synergy
All the Star Wars things, please! That's what Roblox is dishing up right now. The kid-centered building MMO partnered with no less than Disney...
