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PAX West 2018: Elder Scrolls Online’s Murkmire arrives on the PTS September 17
At its PAX West presentation last night, ZeniMax showed attendees an overview of content coming in Elder Scrolls Online's upcoming Murkmire DLC, which will...
PAX West 2018: World of Warcraft’s Ion Hazzikostas shares his game development journey
World of Warcraft's head guru helped to kick off PAX West this weekend with an hour-long keynote address. Ion Hazzikostas entertained the crowd with his...
PAX West 2018: Diablo III shows that it can be Nintendo Hard
With Diablo III coming to the Nintendo Switch and "multiple projects" for the franchise currently in development at Blizzard, this game might be making...
PAX West 2018: PWE announces Neverwinter’s humorous The Heart of Fire module
Perfect World isn't just using PAX West this year to announce a new module for Neverwinter: Penny Arcade itself will soon be woven into...
Gamescom’s 370,000 attendees set another record for the biggest European gaming show
Gamescom continues to kick butt and take names - 370,000 of them, in fact.
That's how many people showed up in Cologne to attend Europe's...
EA cancels Madden qualifiers after shooting as PAX West organizers allay security concerns
The mass shooting at a Madden esports tourney that claimed the lives of two young players, Elijah "TrueBoy" Clayton and Taylor "SpotMePlzz" Robertson, has...
Gamescom 2018: Torchlight Frontiers’ demo sparks interested queries
The team at Echtra Games certainly has its hands full with showing off Torchlight Frontiers at Gamescom and fielding countless questions from fans and...
MapleStory 2 is getting really close to launch, you guys
With its second closed beta run and done, MapleStory 2 is turning its sights to something bigger. Something grander. Something... launch-ier.
Nexon said that it's...
Ashes of Creation lays out its phased alpha roadmap, plans more hires this month
Ashes of Creation's latest newsletter has a few bits of interest for those watching the game from afar. For starters, Intrepid says it's now...
BioWare explains more about Anthem’s split between MMO and single-player portions
Is Anthem a single-player game or an open-world MMO? The short answer is that it's both, but the split is a bit different from...
The Stream Team: Surviving the first steps in Survived By
She has but one life to give. Massively OP's MJ tried out a demo for Survived By -- a different sort of survival game with...
Digital Extremes’ retro permadeath MMO Survived By has entered closed beta
Digital Extremes has officially launched Survived By into closed beta today, accompanied by a hefty patch including a new 10-man raid, hardmode dungeons, UI...
ArenaNet on Guild Wars 2’s living story, Heart of Thorns vs. Path of Fire, security, and momentum
Though ArenaNet was technically at E3 this year, the group representing Guild Wars 2 was chiefly a marketing and business one, so they carted our interview...
E3 2018: Fallout 76 partners with Habitat for Humanity for charity – you can contribute for a song (literally)
Still pumped for the full Fallout 76 reveal from last night? Or maybe concerned over the potential for PvP abuse? Regardless of your current...
Legends of Aria hopes to recruit newbies to test the game with free trial keys
It's Bring-a-Friend Week in Legends of Aria, but you're going to need a working email account. That's because Citadel Studios wants you to email...
Massively Overthinking: The case for rarity and randomness in MMO monetization
Last week, Guild Wars 2's Crystin Cox gave a monetization interview to Gamasutra during which she made one specific argument I wanted to pull...
Pantheon reveals its Ranger, Rogue, and Monk classes
This month's Pantheon newsletter is a doozy for folks eagerly awaiting the details of the game's classes. Visionary Realms has revealed three: the sneaky Rogue...
The MOP Up: Diablo levels up in Heroes of the Storm (May 13, 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...
Choose My Adventure: Ultima Online, we didn’t need to do this
Yes, this is going to come in as the shortest Choose My Adventure series, but I feel it's got a good reason to be...
Rend starts its first public alpha test today
After all the talk and hullabaloo, we can understand being eager to take on Rend as an actual game instead of a concept. Good...
