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Massively OP Podcast Episode 473: How do you define an MMO?
Justin and Bree discuss EVE Online Equinox, EverQuest and EverQuest II expansions and progression servers, New World Aeternum, and Wayfinder's relaunch, with adventures in Project Gorgon, LOTRO, WoW, and Fallout 76, plus mailbag topics on balancing news coverage, Once Human, and defining MMOs.
SGF 2024: Hands-on with NCsoft’s long-awaited Throne and Liberty, launching September 17
Most of the games I played at Summer Game Fest were more enjoyable than I expected - including Throne and Liberty, which was probably...
Choose My Adventure: Flying, dogfighting, and struggling with hardware in Star Citizen
Well, talk about a massive disappointment. After a bunch of attempts, tweaks, and some general stubbornness, I'm pretty much going to have to concede...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO saw its hype die shockingly quickly?
We get some weird PR in our inbox, but the other day a grown-ass man being paid four times what I make woke up...
Second Wind: Final thoughts on returning to World of Warcraft in 2024, from community to dragonriding
At long last, we've reached the fourth and final part of my series detailing my experiences returing to World of Warcraft after six years...
Wisdom of Nym: Musings on Final Fantasy XIV’s last live letter before Dawntrail
If you couldn't watch the live letter because you were too anxious, well, I don't know how you live your life, but also I...
The Daily Grind: Do you have a plan for what happens to your MMO accounts when you die?
Ars Technica penned a piece a few weeks back about the legal quagmire awaiting people who hope to legally pass their Steam accounts on...
The Daily Grind: What brings you back to MMORPGs you stepped away from?
I don't tend to go back to games that I left all that often, but that's less a function of being unwilling and more...
Combat game show The Finals goes on world tour — and to ancient Kyoto
Virtual game show The Finals spread its reach to all corners of the globe -- and to all corners of time -- with the...
LOTRO Legendarium: What will happen when Lord of the Rings Online dies?
You know that old hypothetical of "Would you want to know when you die or would you rather be ignorant of it?" A slightly...
The Daily Grind: What uncommon crafting skills would you like to see in MMOs?
Just as how MMOs tend to skew toward a standard array of generic classes, so to do these games' crafting systems seem to be...
Land of Might is a ‘retro 16-bit bullet hell roguelike MMORPG’ that can be played in a browser
Here at Massively Overpowered, we cover as much of our genre as we can. Big or small, indie studio or major studio, PC, browser,...
Massively Overthinking: The New World Aeternum debacle
You know that feeling when you can see a trainwreck coming, but you know you can't do anything to stop it or even warn...
Vague Patch Notes: Housing is really back in MMORPGs
I haven't really had anything to say about Guild Wars 2's upcoming Janthir Wilds expansion thus far because... well, I'm not our GW2 columnist,...
SGF 2024: Hands-on with PvE-centric sci-fi horror survival shooter MMO Once Human
For those who saw Once Human and thought, "Gee, that kind of looks like a mix of H1Z1 and The Secret World," you're not wrong based on...
The Daily Grind: Are MMOs suffering from the ‘tyranny of IP’?
Back in May, a Sony Pictures executive did a one hell of an interview on Deadline that, among other things, complained about the "tyranny...
Fight or Kite: 33 Immortals continues the trend of pseudo-MMO gaming
Even given the general pullback in the games industry from using the term MMO, I sure am noticing a bunch of other games that...
Perfect Ten: MMOs where you travel back in time for some reason
We're all time travelers! We travel to the future at the rate of one second per second. Every single machine you will ever operate...
Global Chat: So many questions about Guild Wars 2’s housing
With the news that Guild Wars 2 is adding homesteads in its next expansion, Nerdy Bookahs is not alone in asking a whole ton...
SGF 2024: Hands-on with New World’s controversial Aeternum reboot, which is still an MMORPG
How's everyone recovering from all this New World Aeternum news coming out of Summer Games Fest? It's been kind of a confusing time for me, as...
