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Massively Overthinking: Trinities and quaternities in MMORPGs
This week's Massively Overthinking topic was inspired from Jake, who wrote in to us wondering about roles in MMORPG classes and group content:
"What happened to roles?...
Shroud of the Avatar devs vow to drink, dance, and sing during next week’s telethon
Shroud of the Avatar is planning a 10-hour streaming event it's calling the Spring Festival of the Avatar Telethon next week. On May 2nd starting...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 62: EVE Fanfest and PAX East
Justin and Bree are joined by Brendan and Eliot for a full hour of EVE Fanfest and PAX East debriefing.
PAX East 2016: Hands-on with NCsoft’s Master x Master
Master x Master might very well be the MOBA that I learn to love in spite of any and all preconceptions.
I am not, categorically,...
PAX East 2016: Richard Garriott discusses Shroud of the Avatar’s ‘launch’ and future
It might seem as if Shroud of the Avatar has been in early access for a very long time, probably because it has. Technically, it's...
PAX East 2016: Brad McQuaid on Pantheon’s startup, development focus, and old-school nature
The development history of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen could be generously described as "checkered." The title went through several forms of failed crowdfunding...
PAX East 2016: Hands-on with Perfect World’s Livelock
People who know me know that if there's just one thing in this world that I'm passionate about, it's probably robots. Robots are a...
The MOP Up: Richard Garriott’s new book (April 24, 2016)
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...
PAX East 2016: Guns of Icarus shows off its new ships, new guns, and new maps
How many cooperative airship piloting simulators are there in the marketplace at the moment? The answer is that there's basically just the one, and...
PAX East 2016: Final Fantasy XIV answers questions and reveals the Palace of the Dead
If you think you've seen everything that Final Fantasy XIV has in its bag of tricks, the game's Q&A panel at PAX yesterday made it clear...
PAX East 2016: Warframe reveals fairy warframe concept, sports mode
At PAX East this weekend, Ditigal Extremes revealed a ton of incoming Warframe content, including a gorgeous new fairy warframe concept ("with razor butterflies" and...
PAX East 2016: Elder Scrolls Online’s Dark Brotherhood DLC begins PTS testing this week
From its community event at this year's PAX East, ZeniMax announced today that the recently teased Dark Brotherhood DLC lands on Elder Scrolls Online's...
PAX East 2016: DC Universe Online’s Xbox One trailer
Daybreak has just posted a new trailer for DC Universe Online's Xbox One release. The company announced the Xbox One edition back in January;...
The Culling’s first big patch introduces playable female toons
Launched into early access back in March, The Culling is a short-scale battle royale survival game that's already pumping out patches. Ahead of PAX,...
PAX East 2016: LawBreakers’ alpha gameplay trailer features Ice-T
If the voiceover on this "premium digital game" LawBreakers trailer sounds familiar, that's because it's Ice-T, whom Nexon has dubbed the "OG lawbreaker." I...
PAX East 2016: Mars survival game ROKH delivers demo, preps Kickstarter
The next week may be crucial to the future of ROKH, a persistent survival sandbox that happens to be set on Mars. Darewise Entertainment...
PAX East 2016: Let It Die is a crazy, gruesome survival action game
If you haven't noticed, we're currently in the middle of another game development trend, this time centered around making survival action games. Can't go...
Star Citizen is free to play and test this week for PAX East
If you've been waiting patiently on the sidelines for a chance to jump into Star Citizen, this week might be the right time. Cloud...
Neverwinter whips up a new tabletop campaign for April
You might recall that the too-clever-by-half Neverwinter team created a game-within-a-game a while back, transforming players into tabletop figures to go through a campaign...
Neverwinter’s Portobello’s Campaign game-within-a-game launches March 31
If you enjoyed last year's Acquisitions, Inc. live D&D event from PAX Prime 2015, then you're going to love Cryptic's latest stunt. It's called Portobello's...
