mythology
PvE dungeon crawling arrives in MOBA SMITE today with The Trials of King Hercules
SMITE is cementing its reputation as the MOBA most influenced by MMOs with the launch of The Trials of King Hercules today. "This new...
The MOP Up: Revelation Online’s monthly challenges (June 4, 2017)
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...
Camelot Unchained’s backer-modders are tricking out its test interface
"No one said making an MMO was simple," City State Entertainment's Tyler Rockwell quips in this weekend's Camelot Unchained newsletter. He writes that the...
Perfect Ten: My favorite MMO dungeons
It's hard to look at an MMORPG and imagine them without dungeons. For some people, these instances are the core of their game experience,...
Massively Overthinking: 2017’s MMORPG zeitgeist
This time last year, I polled the Massively OP writers for their opinions on which MMOs had had the best year, or half year,...
Camelot Unchained updates progress on crafting, combat, and character creation
Camelot Unchained's latest monthly newsletter has arrived, and the highlight -- aside from the fact that City State hired Andrew Jackson to work on...
Check out Secret World Legends’ new combat revamp video
Ready or not, The Secret World's Secret World Legends revamp is coming this summer, and that means the combat changes, including the reticle combat...
Secret World Legends explains new pistol RNG mechanic
One big combat change coming with the Secret World Legends reboot is that each weapon type will now feature its own special mechanic. The...
The Stream Team: Watch and win SMITE’s new Da Ji
If you didn't win SMITE's newest god -- Da Ji, The Nine-Tailed Fox -- in MOP's raffle over the weekend, never fear! Massively OP's...
Camelot Unchained implements torches (bring your own pitchforks)
City State's Mark Jacobs is back at the helm of the Camelot Unchained weekly update this round, with news of his team's efforts on...
The Game Archaeologist: How Sceptre of Goth shaped the MMO industry
When it comes to text-based MMOs created in the '80s, '90s, and 2000s, the sheer number of them would blot out the sky. There...
Da Ji is live in SMITE today; enter our giveaway to snag her special skin!
If I never read another story about a woman whose beauty ruins everything, I'll be thrilled. However, the Da Ji of Chinese mythology at...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO offers the best dungeon crawling experiences?
Dungeons are deeply on my mind as of late, mostly because I've been missing doing them in MMORPGs. It's odd: In particular MMOs, I...
Global Chat: Saying goodbye to The Secret World
With the move to put The Secret World in maintenance mode and shift focus to the rebooted Secret World Legends, one MMO blogger decided...
Camelot Unchained finishes UI icons, makes ‘major inroads’ into living world support tech
Camelot Unchained hopes you're not tired of the words "living world" because its devs are busy making "major inroads into the tech to support"...
The Daily Grind: Are you willing to reroll for Secret World Legends?
"I can't help but think that I'd rather see a single-player adaptation of The Secret World than to lose it forever if Funcom truly...
Massively Overthinking: Being Uncle Owen in MMORPGs
Ever since the tone-deaf SOE proclamation that nobody wanted to play Uncle Owen in an MMORPG, contrary me has consciously fought that very stupid...
Global Chat: Is Ashes of Creation worth backing?
With all of the hullabaloo going on concerning Ashes of Creation and its Kickstarter campaign, a few bloggers are asking themselves whether or not...
Ashes of Creation’s very good, totally tubular, quite excellent day
For Ashes of Creation, May 16th will go down as one of its best days. For starters, the title was featured on Kickstarter's front...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 117: Starfall no more
On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin is joined by MJ to chit-chat about The Secret World (Legends), ESO Morrowind, TERA, RIFT, Wild West Online, Guild Wars 2, ARK, Conan Exiles, EverQuest II, Warframe, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on returning to MMOs, F2P MMO recommendations, and our old Marvel Heroes guild.
