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Path of Exile’s Delve launches August 31 with an infinite dungeon; here’s our chat with Grinding Gear’s Chris Wilson!
Picture this: an underground dungeon that gets progressively more challenging -- and rewarding -- the deeper you go, and there is no end. Not...
Perfect World Entertainment reveals Torchlight Frontiers, an MMOARPG for PC and console
Last year, Perfect World Entertainment shut down Runic Games. Even before that, fans had been told that any sort of Torchlight MMO would be...
Blizzard teases ‘multiple Diablo projects in the works,’ with reveals ‘later this year’
It's not exactly a secret that Blizzard has been working on something Diablo-related for a while as we've been tracking the company as it...
Diablo franchise history book Stay Awhile and Listen nears the end of its Kickstarter
Has it really been a month since we covered Stay Awhile and Listen, the second volume in David Craddock's history of Blizzard's development of...
The MOP Up: Citadel gets reignited (July 29, 2018)
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...
Dota 2 apes Path of Exile with transparent lockboxes for Dutch players
Remember when the Dutch gaming authorities effectively threatened to prosecute prosecute companies like Valve for vending and trading lockboxes the government agencies considered a...
Path of Exile is plotting massive improvements to party play, including teleporting and downleveling
It's been a hot minute since we checked in with Path of Exile, which has already had a pretty busy summer, what with the...
Grim Dawn preps challenge areas and the Shattered Realm for its next expansion
Don't expect a relaxing luxury cruise with Grim Dawn's Forgotten Gods expansion later this year; it's going to be a rough-and-tough ride that will...
Perfect Ten: Endless dungeons in MMOs
Most MMO dungeons are normal songs. You start out and you have a pretty clear picture of the beginning, middle, and end; they don't...
The Stream Team: Walking that Path of Exile journey
There is a path. For Exiles. And Massively OP's MJ is an exile traveling that path. Where will it lead her today? Into danger!...
What made Fortnite so ridiculously popular? Anticipation is baked into both the loot and the gameplay, says one psychologist
Over the weekend, I was chatting with the mom of my son's friend and let slip that I'm a video game blogger. Her reaction?...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the most complex character development?
Over the weekend, I was reading a makeup subreddit (don't judge me - I swear there is a gaming point to this) and the...
Trion Worlds offers free MMO goodies for Marvel Heroes refugees
Ever since Trion Worlds announced that it had snapped up all of the remaining assets from Gazillion and Marvel Heroes, we have wondered what...
One Shots: My name is Captain Vanity
As I'm off on vacation this week, I knew that I wasn't going to be able to cull through the previous One Shots comment...
Stay Awhile And Listen II is on Kickstarter covering the development of Diablo II
Would it be wrong to call Diablo II the most influential sequel ever? Maybe. But it undoubtedly had a huge impact on the game...
Path of Exile adds two new Incursion Rooms with its next patch
The next patch for Path of Exile is adding two new Incursion rooms, and at a glance one sounds a lot better than the...
The Stream Team: Plundering an entire Path of Exile temple
Thanks to friends, the last time Massively OP's MJ built up her Path of Exile temple she was able to unlock all the rooms...
Trion just bought up Gazillion’s assets to beef up its MMO publishing arm
Did you see this one coming? VentureBeat has a piece out this morning interviewing Trion Worlds CEO Scott Hartsman, who's apparently just revealed that...
Path of Exile’s Elementalist wins Incursion League popularity contest
Which classes are most popular in Path of Exile's Incursion League? Grinding Gear Games has released the stats for the first three weeks of...
The Stream Team: Temples or levels, that is the Path of Exiles question
While Massively OP's MJ has been piddling around with temples in Path of Exile's new Incursion Leagues, one of her friends has already finished...
