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Global Chat: When MMORPG raiding becomes a job
When does a game go from fun to obligation? Xenophics wrote a gut-wrenching confession about how raiding in World of Warcraft became his "office,"...
Space pirates abound in WildStar’s newest raid
No matter where you go, no matter what games genre lines you cross, no matter how landlocked you become, sooner or later you will...
Guild Chat: Recruiting for your MMORPG guild ahead of WoW Legion
Welcome along to Guild Chat, my column in which I join forces with commenters to help a reader in need with a guild-related concern....
Lord of the Rings Online patch fixes a few issues with its newest raid
Now that players have had the better part of a month to throw their corpses at the new Throne of the Dread Terror raid...
DC Universe Online launches new duo and raid today in Episode 26
DC Universe Online's 26th episode is live for all players today, playable by subbers and purchasable by everyone else in the market.
"Episode 26 features the...
Mobile ARPG Heroes of Incredible Tales releases beefy update
Heroes of Incredible Tales (otherwise known as HIT) may have launched less than three weeks ago, but the mobile multiplayer action-RPG already has a...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s new Living Story has launched
Wowee, is it ever a massive day in the life of my favourite MMO! If you log in right now, you'll notice three greatly...
HEX dev blog offers a peek at PvE campaign’s second adventure zone
If you've finished up the PvE campaign in HEX: Shards of Fate and await more, the latest dev blog is aimed at you! With the...
Final Fantasy XIV kicks off a five-day login campaign
Have you stepped away from Final Fantasy XIV for a bit? That's understandable. There are a lot of games out there to play, after...
Chronicles of Elyria debates day and season length, delays store
Put yourself in the shoes of a developer and ask: How long should a day/night cycle be? What about the seasons? What if those...
The Daily Grind: Do you think of yourself as an MMO PvPer?
Whether I've consciously realized it or not, I've been a PvPer since my first FFA PvP sandbox, Ultima Online, in 1997. Since then, I've...
The MOP Up: Planet of Heroes comes into orbit (July 24, 2016)
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...
The Game Archaeologist: Sega’s 10six MMO
If you were to think of Sega and MMOs, chances are the only thing that would come to mind is the Phantasy Star Online franchise....
Skyforge’s new producer says ‘significant and fundamental changes’ are en route
Skyforge has a new producer in the west: Volker “PoweredByPixels” Boenigk, who explains the last producer was sucked out an airlock. Just kidding; Fabien...
Hyperspace Beacon: Wild speculation about SWTOR’s Knights of the Eternal Throne
Who else was disappointed by the Star Wars: The Old Republic presentation at Star Wars Celebration over the weekend? I had really hoped that...
The MOP Up: RuneScape Chronicles’ beach party (July 17, 2016)
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...
WoW Factor: Titanforged items and content relevance
If you've missed discussion of it elsewhere (including on this here site, even), World of Warcraft is rolling out a new system for item...
Perfect Ten: The most exciting MMO developments yet to come in 2016
In the annals of MMORPG history, 2016 might well go down as a very odd duck of a year. While on the surface it...
ArenaNet on Guild Wars 2 PvP scouting, aquatic combat, and polling the playerbase
If you thought there was a lot of story in the recent Guild Wars 2 living world season 3 reveal, you're not alone. I...
Shards Online patches in necromancy and dragon taming
The latest Shards Online patch is the biggest one since December, and it really covers all of the bases you can imagine. Do you...