permadeath

Yesterday at EVE Vegas 2016, developer CCP Rise held us spellbound with tales of his recent misadventures in EVE Online recently when pretending to...

Over the last couple of weeks, we shared with you part one and part two of our guide to the best upcoming and current indie MMORPGs...

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...

Last week, an interesting question dropped into our team inbox. It was from a game developer -- I don't know for which game --...

One of the things that I love about Massively Overpowered's readership is how fans often bring games to my attention that I never knew...

The debate about what makes a good sandbox game is as old as the term itself, and everyone seems to have a different view...

I suppose there will always be a special place in my heart for Lord of the Rings Online. Not only is it one of...

Justin and Bree discuss WoW Legion, Guild Wars 2, SOTA, SWTOR, Firefall, StarCraft Universe, Age of Wushu 2, and RIFT, with mailbag questions on early MMO adoption and permadeath in MMOs.

Citadel Studios' Derek Brinkmann hopped on Reddit yesterday for an AMA revolving around Shards Online. Among the highlights: The game does have hunger, but...

Hardcore perma-death MMORPG Wizardry Online just can't catch a break: MMO Culture reports today that the game is shutting down in Japan, five years...

Anyone on the MassivelyOP team will probably tell you that I won't shut up about Chronicles of Elyria. There's so much to like about...

Here's something interesting that you might want to pick up and play today: StarBreak, a free-to-play massively multiplayer title, has just launched on Steam. As...

I've been thinking. (A dangerous pastime, I know!) And I think I have come up with a solution to a number of the things...

Dungeons and Dragons Online was a very strange game at first glance. Ten years ago, I ventured into Stormreach with no more motivation than a longstanding...

It's April 19th, which means it's early access launch day for The Black Death survival sandbox, the only kind of multiplayer game being made anymore....

Ahead of its April 19th early access launch, Green Man Loaded has published a Q&A video for The Black Death. The devs thumb through...

Permadeath is always a fun if rarely used design concept to discuss, which is why I want to put forth a thought exercise to the...

What would it have been like if you could have played the side-scrolling platformers from the 1980s and 1990s with tons of other people?...

The delay of The Black Death's early access launch from March to April means more trailers on just how the gloomy survival sandbox will...

In real life, when you die the penalty is... death. You just get that one go at things. But in MMOs, player characters are...