pirates
Massively OP Podcast Episode 155: Pirates, progression, and patches
Justin and Bree discuss Age of Conan, FFXIV, SWTOR, Closers, EVE Online, Sea of Thieves, WoW, and Guild Wars 2, with mailbag questions on non-combat MMO options and playing MMOs with a newborn.
Sea of Thieves extends closed beta through January 31
As we've been documenting, Sea of Thieves' closed beta test has proved to be both incredibly popular and incredibly unreliable since starting earlier this...
Sea of Thieves’ closed beta is live but in choppy waters
Sea of Thieves' closed beta for PC and Xbox One kicked off earlier today, and it's not going that well. Or rather, it's going...
Sea of Thieves’ ‘bespoke experience’ closed beta begins Wednesday with Xbox Play Anywhere fully functional
Avast and so on, pirate MMO fiends: Sea of Thieves' closed beta is almost here. As Rare reminded us this morning, the closed beta...
Black Desert adds sailboat quest, drop rate tweaks, and way more polar bears
Pull out your ancient "I'm on a boat" and "you are a pirate" memes because Black Desert is about to give you reason to...
Sea of Thieves breaks down its skelly AI
How do you make a skeleton move, think, and attack?
Maybe you don't spend a lot of time thinking about such things, but rest assured,...
‘X’ marks Sea of Thieves’ closed beta on January 24
A bottle just washed up on the shore of Massively OP's treasure island, and tucked inside of it was a note that informed us...
EVE Online improves forward operating bases with today’s patch
The pirate factions of EVE Online have always been a threat. We're not talking about player pirates, mind you; we're talking about the NPC...
Sea of Thieves’ official controller is pure pirate gold
Excited about Sea of Thieves coming to Xbox One and PC this March? Excited enough that you're already putting together your pirate cosplay outfit...
EVE Evolved: EVE Online’s case for asymmetric and asynchronous gameplay
If there's one thing that EVE Online does better than any other MMO on the market today, it's persistent gameplay on massive scales. The now-famous...
EVE Evolved: 2017 EVE Online year in review
We've reached the end of another year, and it's certainly been a busy one for EVE Online. This year saw heavy gameplay iteration, with...
Perfect Ten: 20 multiplayer games to watch in 2018
A couple of weeks ago I covered 20(ish) MMORPGs that we are looking forward to seeing develop, test, and launch in 2018. But as...
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...
