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The ultimate guide to The Game Archaeologist’s MMO archives
When we moved over here to Massively Overpowered, some of us transplanted our long-running columns to the new space. I perhaps felt most devastated...
Sea of Thieves is getting a comic book treatment
Every pirate needs some good reading material for those long ocean voyages, assuming that they can read. And now, for the literate and illiterate...
EVE Evolved: Calling time on EVE Online’s five-year vision
When Andie "CCP Seagull" Nordgren walked onto the stage at EVE Fanfest 2013 and delivered her long-term vision for the future of EVE Online,...
Sea of Thieves announces March launch date for PC and Xbox One
Well this is a bit of welcome news before the year rounds out! Rare finally announced a launch date for Sea of Thieves: March...
Blade & Soul’s Dawn of the Lost Continent launches today (and it has a flying pirate ship)
Blade & Soul's biggest update ever is live today - or will be this afternoon once the servers are back from maintenance tonight!
As we've...
EVE Online patches in more alpha skills on December 5th
The next patch for EVE Online arrives on December 5th, and it's going to give Alpha players (or "free-to-play players" for those not down...
EVE Evolved: Three top tips for staying safe from gankers in EVE Online
EVE Online is renowned for its cold, harsh universe and relatively few rules, and we've all heard the horror stories over the years of...
Sea of Thieves devs razz each other during giant pirate battle
"The only thing that's sinking here is your dignity!"
It is that time once again for the Sea of Thieves development team to record themselves...
Magic: The Gathering Arena sets closed beta for December 4
Magic: The Gathering Arena's alpha development is apparently going well, as according to a new dev blog and press release today, Wizards of the...
Sea of Thieves trailer dares you to ‘be more pirate’
All other studios, it's time to pack it in: Sea of Thieves has won the Trailer Olympics, at least for 2017.
In Rare's newest video,...
Sea of Thieves boards small boats and finds them seaworthy for soloers and duoers
While Sea of Thieves' standard pirate vessels require a crew of four, Rare acknowledged that some players were going to ask for boats that...
EVE Evolved: The Agency could revolutionise casual PvE in EVE Online
Though EVE Online has a reputation as a cut-throat PvP sandbox where anything goes, the fuel that fires its conflict engine has always been...
Sea of Thieves technical alpha update: small ships, brigs, and text chat
There's never enough grog when you're trying to wrap your head around the fast-changing events of the world. Fortunately, Sea of Thieves has a...
Sea of Thieves’ crew meets for a raucous parley
For the most part, Sea of Thieves has delivered a stream of short, bite-sized videos to show off various aspects of the pirate game...
EVE Online launches Lifeblood expansion, now with a new and improved PvE activity hub
Time to update your space spreadsheet because EVE Online is coming at you with a brand-new expansion today. Lifeblood has launched, bringing with it...
Sea of Thieves offers up its full NYCC panel on multiplayer, holds players to ‘Pirate’s Code’
This month, Sea of Thieves has been beating pretty hard on the drum of "our multiplayer is going to be better than most other...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s free-to-play upgrades are pretty damn generous
You've probably heard by now that EVE Online is giving its free-to-play alpha clone characters a massive boost in power in December about a...
The MOP Up: Speedrunning World of Warcraft (October 15, 2017)
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...
EVE Vegas 2017: Structure warfare is about to get very cool in EVE Online
If I had to pick out one thing that EVE Online does exceptionally well, apart from the political betrayals and thefts that regularly grace the gaming...
EVE Vegas 2017: Pirate factions will hunt you down in new EVE PvE
If your experience with EVE Online's PvE is of grinding through waves of predictable NPC pirates firing space pea shooters at you, get ready...
