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MMO Business Roundup: Roblox’s 4D AI, Perfect World’s layoffs, Bethsoft’s unionization, and Rockstar’s ambitions
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Roblox - The controversial games giant now claims that it's "building...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs show blood and battle damage?
At the risk of sounding like a bloodthirsty gorehound, I do kind of wish that MMOs did more to visually represent the damage that...
This year’s Steam Summer Sale brings another collection of bargains for MMORPG fans
It's Christmas in summertime once again, otherwise known to gamers as the Steam Summer Sale, and we're happy to report that there are some...
Neverwinter announces Mountain of Flame module, coming July 16
Where my Neverwinter peeps at? Cryptic's Dungeons and Dragons MMO has a big announcement for you today: It's announcing its next season and update,...
Massively Overthinking: Unfair stigmas that follow MMORPGs
A few weeks back, our team was discussing the intersection of survival sandboxes, MMORPG virtual worlds, and gankboxes - and how hard it is...
Star Trek Online’s Unparalleled update arrives on consoles today
Despite the name, it would appear that Star Trek Online's latest update, Unparalleled, does indeed feature a parallel. In a parallel universe known as...
Gigantic launches free trial on Epic Games Store as ranked competitive mode comes to PC
Gigantic continues to do things nobody expected in 2024: First, Abstraction Games brought it back from the dead years after PWE sunsetted it. Second,...
Predownloading for Tencent’s Tarisland begins tonight for North and South American players
If you're looking forward to the launch of Tarisland as we - and some of our readers - are, then heads-up because Tarisland is...
LOTRO Legendarium: Am I excited at all for Amazon’s Lord of the Rings MMO?
With all of the recent hullabaloo around New World, I've noticed several mentions of what this may portend for Amazon's Lord of the Rings...
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...
Tarisland’s latest videos recap class choices and the casual Memory Maze minigame
Tencent is obviously in the home stretch for its release run for Tarisland, as it's been dropping new videos all week.
The latest is a...
The Stream Team: Star Trek Online’s Unparalleled and space cockroaches
It's all about the Borg, baby! No, not Borg babies (though they might still be cute!). Borg are just everywhere. They are really space...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 471: A Gold Road to the promised Tarisland
Justin and Bree discuss Tarisland, Elder Scrolls Online's Gold Road, Corepunk's alpha, WoW Classic Cataclysm, SWTOR, and Star Trek Online, with adventures in WoW, LOTRO, Guild Wars 2, and City of Heroes, plus mailbag topics on industry jargon, IGN's buying spree, and Embracer.
Co-op RPG Baldur’s Gate 3 readies official modding support for this fall
For a select slice of the Baldur's Gate 3 community, this fall's Patch 7 will be the update they've been waiting for since the...
The MOP Up: My Time at Sandrock will make you a proper Monster Whisperer
To start off our small news roundup this weekend, let's head over to co-op farm sim My Time at Sandrock, where the devs talked about...
Vague Patch Notes: Why do so many MMOs fail?
We talk a lot about MMOs that fail here on Massively Overpowered. I wrote a whole column about how our standards of success are...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online Cross Faction Heavy Strike Wing Escort Bundle in our Unparalleled giveaway
In celebration of Star Trek Online's PC launch of Season 32: Unparalleled, Cryptic has kindly granted us gift codes to raffle to our readers!...
Star Trek Online’s Unparalleled is live on PC today, helmed by Denise Crosby
It's update day for Star Trek Online fans as the iconic sci-fi MMORPG releases Unparalleled for PC, and accordingly we are never allowed to...
Star Trek Online’s June event lets you earn a free T6 starship
If you've played Star Trek Online to any moderate or serious extent, you know that having a Tier 6 starship is a "must have"...
Here’s how Star Trek Online’s new gender- and species-swap token will work
Star Trek Online's Unparalleled update isn't just about new story content and missions: It's also packing a major quality-of-life feature in the form of...
