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Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s next patch reveals our future story
The next patch for Final Fantasy XIV is something we should all watch closely. Because it's going to tell us plenty about where we're...
Final Fantasy XIV invites the community to design physical DPS gear
Thus far, Final Fantasy XIV has run three gear design competitions for the community, inviting players to design gear for tanks, healers, and magical...
One Shots: Tour guides
It turns out that MMORPG players really don't need much prompting to go out and take a bazillion screenshots of their favorite in-game zones,...
Final Fantasy XIV releases its next patch site and its Live Letter digest
Players are crucial to the reconstruction of Doma in Final Fantasy XIV, so it's only right that the next leg of the game's main...
Massively Overthinking: What we really mean when we talk about ‘difficulty’ in MMORPGs
Massively OP reader Steve wants us to revisit the Daily Grind on making death more meaningful without making it more annoying. His letter was long, so...
H1Z1 patch optimizes client and tamps down on overenthusiastic celebrants
For those playing the now-free H1Z1 battle royale, a small Thursday patch might hold a few changes to improve your game experience.
It seems as...
NTales: Child of Destiny follows up its global launch with a ‘grand launch’
As a wise man once said, if at first you don't succeed, launch, launch again! Pocket MMO NTales: Child of Destiny has already enjoyed...
Bot-maker Bossland’s legit game flops, Germany rejects Blizzard’s US court victory and won’t enforce damages
Are you surprised to be hearing about Bossland again? We're surprised to be reporting on it. The German-based botmaker made headlines for the last...
Wisdom of Nym: What we know so far about Final Fantasy XIV’s next patch
Yes, the latest live letter happened, the fan translations happened, and as one could expect the Final Fantasy XIV fandom has already taken half-translated...
Final Fantasy XIV confirms its next major patch in late May
If you were watching the most recent Final Fantasy XIV live letter, we can only hope you speak Japanese. It would be pretty hard...
Massively Overthinking: The best of PAX East and GDC in 2018
The past couple of weeks has been wild as we dispatched writers to GDC in San Francisco and PAX East in Boston to gather...
EVE Fanfest 2018: EVE Online FPS Project Nova is coming ‘in months, not years’
When CCP Games first made the leap into the first person shooter market with DUST 514, things didn't exactly go to plan. The game...
Destiny 2’s second expansion, Warmind, launches May 8, or whatever
Gone are the days when Bungie would put out teases and trailers for its expansions, apparently. Last night, it practically stealth-announced Destiny 2's next...
Guild Chat: Rebuilding a real-life home and an MMORPG guild all at once
Welcome along to Guild Chat, the column through which many Massively Overpowered readers get the help they need to achieve better balance within their...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV and the horror of the Live Letter
It's easy to miss one of the worst bits of news about the next Final Fantasy XIV Live Letter because it's tucked in the...
PAX East 2018: Final Fantasy XIV’s main scenario writing and localization
It's easy to have little to no idea about how Final Fantasy XIV is localized. Obviously the localization team has advanced beyond the days...
Jukebox Heroes: Five great YouTube channels for MMO music
As a collector and reviewer of MMORPG soundtracks, I owe a great debt to fellow music lovers who take the time to somehow extract...
One Shots: Fun with filters
You know all of those weird filter effects that you have in your photo editing software? There always seems to be a stigma against...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 164: Shroud of the Heroes
Justin and Bree discuss April Fools' Day across the MMO world, RIFT, DDO, Trove, Guild Wars 2, WoW, Sea of Thieves, Shroud of the Avatar, SWTOR, and FFXIV, with mailbag questions on MMO tourist modes and character customization.
GDC 2018: Depictions of violence and war in video games and Destiny’s Sword
I love stories. Maybe it's the teacher in me, but I love stories not just for their raw entertainment value, but for their ability...
