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The Daily Grind: Which MMO has your favorite cosmetic system?
The Secret World is not my game of choice, but I sure did like its system for appearances. Clothing was just... well, clothing. You...
Make My MMO: Pantheon’s seed financing (October 3, 2015)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, fans of Brad McQuaid's Pantheon fantasy MMO got some good news. It seems as if Visionary Realms has...
WRUP: The appearance of birds edition
Why do birds suddenly appear every time you are near? Why do birds gradually appear every time they smell fear? Why do birds cover...
The Daily Grind: How closely do you follow MMOs prior to launch?
MOP commenter Tandor Shadewalker recently made me think about what the game industry was like prior to widespread use of the internet. If you'll...
Betawatch: October 2nd, 2015
Bad news for fans of elegant turns on the dance floor and all of the delicious accompanying politics that Ever, Jane promised - the...
Leaderboard: Have you played Elite: Dangerous?
I've got the space sim bug again. Well, OK, I never really lost it, but work and other hobbies occasionally make immersing myself in...
The Daily Grind: What kind of physics-based gameplay do you expect in a next-gen superhero MMO?
When I first read Massively OP Kickstarter donor MagmaFist's Daily Grind submission, I suspected him to be a big fan of Gravity/Force Fields Controllers in...
Massively Overthinking: Graceful MMO free-to-play transitions
In honor of WildStar's free-to-play transition this week, Massively Overthinking is about to overthink the very best F2P transitions ever. Even if you don't...
Massively OP’s first impressions of Devilian
Call my stance on Trion World's upcoming Devilian "oh-so-cautiously interested."
Personally, I think Trion invited more grief than it wanted with the importation of ArcheAge to...
The Daily Grind: Give a shout-out to your favorite retired MMO characters
We all have them: MMO characters we invested time, love, and no small amount of effort in making them all they could be... after...
The Daily Grind: What do you think of WildStar Reloaded so far?
It's been a day since the free-to-play update came out for WildStar, giving veteran, returning, and new players a chance to check out the business...
The Daily Grind: How often are your MMO goals thwarted?
I logged into Ultima Online over the weekend absolutely determined to achieve a very specific thing: imbue some gear for my Tamer. But first I wanted to...
The Daily Grind: What MMO do you feel guilty for liking?
I played some Grand Theft Auto Online last night, and while I had a good time (as always), I also came away from the...
MMO Week in Review: WildStar’s second chance (September 27, 2015)
Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!
WildStar's...
The MOP Up: A rebirth for Star Wars Galaxies
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: Threat Level Midnight
Even in the far future, Starfleet officers still pose for a selfie or two. How could they not when they encounter such striking backdrops?
"This...
The Daily Grind: Are you hopeful about crowdfunded MMOs?
A few years back, we were all discussing the frankly dizzying amounts of money going into crowdfunding MMOs. Speculation ran rampant that this was...
Make My MMO: September 26, 2015
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Divergence Online continued to raise eyebrows. First, head honcho Ethan "Lord of Edge" Casner spoke with MOP regarding...
WRUP: Letter integration edition
C is for cookie, that's good enough for me. D is for dinosaur, that's actually a lot better than cookies, and I really like...
The Daily Grind: What could MMOs do with offline characters?
Maybe it's my active imagination, but I like to believe that my characters are relieved when I log out of games, because then they...