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Desert Oasis: A guide to some of Black Desert’s world bosses and their weapons
You know what I want to be when I grow up? A boss. Not the kind that starts a business living in a car...
Fight or Kite: Impressions of Ashes of Creation Apocalypse, a solid fantasy battle royale nobody is playing
A mere fortnight ago, the team behind Ashes of Creation took its MMO combat testing ground known as Apocalypse and opened the doors on...
Fight or Kite: Guild Wars 2 PvP – where good intentions and stubbornness meet
Earlier this month, Guild Wars 2 Game Director Mike Zadorojny had an interview with PCGamesN in which he discussed a number of items - most...
Fight or Kite: Crowfall’s new Infected content is the best thing added to the pre-alpha
This past week has been the best week I’ve had in Crowfall all year. First, ArtCraft dropped a weekend-long event that really turned heads,...
Fight or Kite: Ashes of Creation Apocalypse is a doorway to an action-packed MMO
If you had told me two weeks ago that Ashes of Creation is going to be one of my most anticipated upcoming MMO titles,...
Fight or Kite: Guild Wars 2’s best PvP mode isn’t what you think it is – it’s minigames
One could certainly argue that Guild Wars 2’s primary focus is that of a PvE, story driven game. Hell, I’d make that argument. Yet,...
Fight or Kite: Exploring Crowfall’s banking, newbie, and God’s Reach update
This past week Crowfall patched in update 5.100 (that’s right - we’ve gone from 5.9 to 5.100, as one does), which wiped existing characters...
Fight or Kite: Albion Online’s Percival update is for the solo players out there
This week we saw a nice patch released for the world of Albion Online with its Percival update. It’s largely a general quality-of-life update...
Fight or Kite: One specific update would make Crowfall worth playing every day
The past couple of weeks I’ve been having a fantastic time romping through Crowfall’s campaigns. When you have a good group of players by...
Fight or Kite: Fallout 76’s Nuclear Winter is a blast
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A multiplayer online game is looking for the new hot thing to drum up interest in...
Fight or Kite: First impressions of Nexon’s new multiplayer shooter Rocket Arena
Nexon's new crossplatform multiplayer shooter Rocket Arena came out of nowhere last month and surprised everyone with a closed beta this past week. It's...
Fight or Kite: Features MMOs could borrow from successful esports titles
This week I wanted to try something a little different in our PvP-centric Fite or Kite column and take a look at a number...
Fight or Kite: The case for dueling in Guild Wars 2
Let me tell you all about one of the most obvious holes in the Guild Wars 2 PvP armor.
No, it's not the infrequent balance...
Fight or Kite: First impressions of newly free-to-play Albion Online
As soon as I heard that Albion Online was going free-to-play, I knew where I was going to spend the majority of my PvP...
Fight or Kite: Falling in line with Crowfall
"Everyone group up! Keep the formation tight. Line up and do not let anyone through that door."
We know that they have a siege weapon...
Fight or Kite: Clawing my way back into Guild Wars 2’s WvW
All aboard and welcome everyone to a brand-new series here on Massively Overpowered: Fight or Kite, our new column focusing on PvP across the...
Elder Scrolls Online: Deep-diving Morrowind’s PvP battlegrounds
At last week's Elder Scrolls Online press event, I sat down in the ESO Live studio to talk to the PvP designer in person:...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Matt Firor on One Tamriel, Cyrodiil PvP, and housing
For many of us at Massively OP, Elder Scrolls Online won E3, if that’s really a thing, but that's partly because all ZeniMax Online Studios...