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Massively Overthinking: How do you maintain your health while binging MMORPGs?
Kotaku put out a piece this week on how to game without wrecking your body, something that's probably bound to come up in the...
Pokemon Go developer Niantic to pay out $1.5 million for its disastrous festival
Remember when Pokemon Go had a big live festival for player in Chicago? Considering how quickly the event devolved into a nightmare, Niantic is...
The MOP Up: Crossout brings out the big raids (April 1, 2018)
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...
GDC 2018: Ultima Online post-mortem with Richard Garriott, Starr Long, Raph Koster, and Rich Vogel
Plenty of panels at GDC are recorded and uploaded to the internet weeks after the event, including this one. It's not quite the same...
Pokemon Go is finally adding quests in the form of endless ‘research tasks’
Fight over whether it's an MMO or not if you like, but this week, Pokemon Go is adding full-fledged questing to player activities. The...
GDC 2018: Funcom’s Tor Egil Andersen on Conan Exiles’ early access, launch, and beyond
My initial impressions of Conan Exiles, written just about a year ago, weren't exactly glowing. While I know not every game I play needs to appeal...
The MOP Up: Final Fantasy XIV gets primal (March 25, 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...
Shroud of the Avatar: Partying with Portalarium, countering pay-to-win, and the state of the game
The day is finally arriving: Shroud of the Avatar is formally launching next week. It's been a long journey. The path to this new old-school...
First impressions of the newly launched ARK Park
By the time you read this dear reader, I'll already be dead... dead tired, that is, from running around the Game Developer's Conference talking...
A man reportedly attacked other men over Pokemon Go
It's been nearly two years since the release of Pokemon Go, and on its initial release it seemed like we were always hearing about...
The MOP Up: Enter the Phantom Halls — if you dare! (March 18, 2018)
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...
Perfect Ten: MMO missteps that didn’t have to happen
Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...
Massively Overthinking: Is battle royale a fad?
This week in Massively Overthinking, I want to talk about something out on the fringes of our genre: battle royale games. We've been watching...
OARG Jurassic World Alive brings dinosaur dicing and splicing to mobile
You may have thought the multiplayer online dinosaur genre is already tapped out, what with the likes of ARK Survival Evolved and ARK Park...
The Daily Grind: Do you multitask while playing MMORPGs?
Years ago, I had the bright idea to go to extremes to multitask while playing World of Warcraft. I set my laptop on a...
SuperData says ‘pay-to-play’ MMOs declined again in January 2018
SuperData published its January recap of the worldwide digital games market this week, and the analytics firm doesn't have much good to say for...
Pokemon Go weather trio throwdown, Team Rocket appears in Japan
Pokemon Go players are beginning to see the introduction of Poke-lore to the MMOARG. While the last big update brought weather to the game in a...
Path of Exile: Gotta catch ’em all in the new Bestiary League and update 3.2.0, coming March 2
With a new Path of Exile challenge league every three months, you might wonder whether Grinding Gear Games can keep coming up with new themes...
Pokemon Go adds Rayquaza, European shop events, and raid fixes
Hey trainers! Legendary pokemon Rayquaza joins the raid fun "for a limited time" in Pokemon Go beginning today through March 16th.
"In celebration, Pokémon originally...
Da Ji and the Legend of the Foxes brings an anime adventure to SMITE
For a MOBA, SMITE sure doesn't play by rules, or at least any rules we recognize. Hi-Rez seems to be constantly reinventing the game...
