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Broke Protocol is Minecraft meets Grand Theft Auto
If you took Grand Theft Auto and molded it into the visual style of Minecraft, would it have crowd appeal? Cylinder Studios sure hopes...
One Shots: Through the portal?
The other day, Bree was complaining about how so many screenshots from modern MMORPGs suffer from a bland and monochrome palette. Coming to the...
RuneScape DDoS hacker gets two years in U.K. prison
Ever hear that expression, "His name is mud?" It applies on every level to the incarceration of one Adam Mudd this week, who received...
U.S. district court hears Pokemon Go trespassing lawsuit
Last summer when Pokemon Go took off, so did the lawsuits from property owners who claimed Niantic was effectively encouraging players to illegally trespass...
The Survivalist: Massively OP’s guide to multiplayer survival sandboxes
Welcome to The Survivalist! Ya'll might have noticed that I have gravitated a bit from my happy home of deep, immersive virtual worlds (possible...
Roblox is taking the online kid world by storm with 48M monthly users and $92M in new investment
Have you ever heard of this game Roblox? If not, you probably will be in the future, because this title has come out of...
A peek at Camelot Unchained’s trees, forests, and C.U.B.E.
"Today's update might be a little lighter on the tech side," Mark Jacobs tells Camelot Unchained backers in his latest update, "but we have...
Gamers resurrect LEGO Universe as Darkflame Universe with January alpha
Forget 2017; today I'm going to ask you to think back to 2010, when the folks behind LEGO decided it would be a great...
The MOP Up: Christmas in a warzone (December 25, 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...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the best value at the start of 2017
About a year ago, I listed off the best free-to-play titles on the market. To the surprise of no one, including me, that turned...
Superdata’s September report shows Destiny, WoW, GW2, SWTOR, and TERA doing well
Superdata's September games market report is up, and the console revenue rankings have a new old king: Destiny. Yes, Destiny has returned to the...
Wurm Online co-creator steps back from development, says game is ‘doing well financially’
Following our report on Wurm Online's upcoming development plans earlier this week, reader Bionicall pointed us to a different recent post penned by the game's CEO...
Massively OP’s guide to the best upcoming indie MMORPGs, part three
Over the last couple of weeks, we shared with you part one and part two of our guide to the best upcoming and current indie MMORPGs...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for Amazon’s New World
The announcement of a new sandbox MMORPG last week -- New World, by none other than Amazon Game Studios itself -- has had both...
Perfect Ten: Questions to ask before backing an MMO Kickstarter
I am not a big fan of Kickstarter in general, but I like to think that I'm not a big fan for actual reasons...
How voxel tech is powering sci-fi sandbox Dual Universe
Dual Universe has a fresh dev diary out this week on how it's employing voxel technology for its builder-centric space sandbox.
"The idea of voxel...
Superdata’s July 2016 data show Guild Wars 2 surging, Pokemon Go on top
Superdata's July report on online gaming revenues is in, and there are some predictable bits and some surprises. On the P2P MMO front, the...
Massively Overthinking: The golden age of MMORPGs
This week's Massively Overthinking is a serious one from our dear Patreon patron Duane. Here's the jumping off point for his topic:
"There has lately...
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...
Rebuild civilization after its collapse in Edengrad
What would you do if you woke up in post-apocalyptic settings? If your answer is, "Rebuild as fast as possible so that civilization can...
