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There's a whole group of MMO players who have always fascinated me: the type who keep rerolling the same characters over and over. For...

Five years ago - yes, it's been that long! - we did an Overthinking in which our staff all took Quantic's...

A few weeks ago, I was happily joyscrolling about home improvement ideas for my new house when I bumped into a comment that keeps...

Let me tell you, going back to an old MMO after a very long time away can be a shock to your memories. I...

When you are heading out to the dangerous wilds where dismemberment, face melting, certain death, or even experience loss might be around every corner,...

I'll admit that there's a shade of vanity that prompts me to bust out my best and most noticeable skills whenever I'm in an...

As we get ready to tuck 2020 into the annals of history and venture into the wilds of 2021, it's a good time for...

We don't just take screenshots of MMOs to impress each other but to cement memories that would otherwise fade away to the ravages of...

MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Biggest MMO Surprise of 2020, which was awarded to the revival...

Even if you don't like crafting, you should care if your MMO of choice has meaningful crafting. And you should especially care if it...

Justin and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online's Gates of Oblivion, Crimson Desert, Elite Odyssey, Ark 2, Black Desert, WoW Shadowlands, PSO2, LOTRO, EverQuest, and FFXIV, with adventures in WoW, SWTOR, and CoH, and a mailbag topic on CoH Brutes that spirals into meta and endgame discussion.

MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with... what's this? A brand-new award? Yep! This year we're debuting a new formal award for...

Fun fact: We came up with "rogue server" last year in an attempt to disambiguate the word "emulator" and remove some of the whitewash...

Last December, when we sat down to write out our annual MMO predictions for 2020, I don't think anyone had "biggest global pandemic in...

The community is important when it comes to talking about an MMO. This is an established fact; I wrote an entire column about how...

Welcome to Massively Overpowered's formal end-of-the-year 2020 awards! Every year, we poll our writers on the best and worst MMOs, stories, studios, and trends...

Justin and Bree discuss the Daybreak sale, World of Warcraft, SWTOR, City of Heroes, Skyforge, and min-maxing in MMOs in this live-recorded 300th podcast.

OK, graphics snobs, this unofficial annual award is for you. Now, I will play an old, clunky, beloved sandbox for a really long time. And...

Around these parts, November highlights giving thanks (though no country has a monopoly on the practice!), and this past month not only gave us...

Just when I thought we were getting to a quieter point in the year where I could engage in a leisurely wrap-up of the...