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Life is Feudal will add pygmies, but no consoles
When we interviewed Bitbox CEO Vladimir “Bobik” Piskunov last month, we learned quite a bit about Life is Feudal's transition back into an MMO,...
Devilian adding Tempest class, raising level cap
Trion Worlds' OARPG Devilian has only been out for a short while now, but the game is already preparing to grow in more than...
The Daily Grind: Are OARPGs the future of the MMORPG genre?
Toward the end of 2014, genre academics popularized the idea that the MMORPG genre was becoming "unbundled" -- that MMORPGs were splintering, "with sociality,...
Guild Chat: How to have fun as an MMORPG guild
Welcome along to another instalment of Guild Chat, my cozy wee corner of Massively OP in which we break down the issues and questions...
The Secret World increases membership rewards
Today's Streaming Ones dev livestream announced a big change coming to The Secret World's membership benefits in February. Game Director Romain “Tilty” Amiel emphasized...
Chaos Theory: The Secret World’s golden grind
Hello. My name is is MJ. And I have a golem problem.
Boy, The Secret World got me good -- hook, line, and sinker. By the...
Das Tal is working on lag, maps, and caravan raids
Earlier this month, Das Tal's Fairytale Distillery told players that it was working hard on playthrough incentives and accessibility features for its April alpha test....
ELOA’s ‘The Looters’ update describes you as much as the mobs
Elite Lord of Alliance is getting another big update today called simply The Looters. It describes us all, doesn't it? The patch's main feature...
How Star Wars: The Old Republic won me over with its endgame
I walked away from last week's Star Wars: The Old Republic livestream pretty happy. Considering that I repeatedly say how much I absolutely loathe...
Hands-on with HEX: Chronicles of Entrath’s PvE
What do you know about HEX: Shards of Fate? If you've ever played it, probably more than me. But what do you know about...
Perfect Ten: Ten MMO tropes we don’t need in 2016 (but clearly aren’t going anywhere)
All right, we've had just about a month of 2016 now, and I'm writing this on my birthday. Odds are good that I'm going...
The Elder Scrolls Online previews Thieves Guild DLC with a new trailer
The Elder Scrolls Online has been teasing its Thieves Guild DLC for a while now, and today we have a closer look at the...
Age of Conan has a new game director with plans for 2016
Funcom's Romain "Tilty" Amiel, well known to MMORPG gamers as the lead designer on The Secret World, has taken over game director duties from...
Sacrament splits its game world up by tiers, introduces the Sniper
The "jack of all trades" indie MMO Sacrament is still in its design docs stage, occasionally releasing batches of information and concept art to...
Firefall releases Razor’s Edge update, disables west coast datacenter
If you heard an earth-rumbling boom this morning and didn't know the source, let us tell you: It was the arrival of Firefall's 1.6 update,...
Hyperspace Beacon: Is SWTOR losing its MMORPG cred?
One of the recurring gamer complaints about Star Wars: The Old Republic is that it's becoming less and less an MMORPG over time. With Knights of the...
The MOP Up: Titan Siege debuts (January 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...
Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Cognitive performance and your brain on games
So far in our exploration of the topics in Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt's book The Video Game Debate: Unravelling the Physical, Social, and Psychological Effects of Video...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best pay-to-win MMORPG?
Here's an odd question from a Massively OP reader: What's the best pay-to-win MMO on the market?
I know pay to win is a dirty,...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Examining Guild Wars 2’s winter 2016 update plans
Guild Wars 2 Game Director Colin Johanson dropped a massive amount of information about the direction development will take in the first quarter of 2016...
