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DCUO returns to the Halls of Power with its next update
With DC Universe Online's sped-up content delivery schedule, players fresh off of the munitions update now can look forward to a new hit of...
RIFT’s Echoes of Madness update arrives on April 15
RIFT players salivating for Update 3.2 won't have much longer to go: Trion Worlds announced that Echoes of Madness will be launching on Wednesday,...
MMO Mechanics: How strong communities are barriers-to-exit
MMOs occupy a unique position in our game libraries because they include a wide range of clever mechanics that keep us logging in day...
Sci-fi shooter Project Genom begins alpha testing
Why can't intergalactic colonization ever go smoothly? There always seems to be at least one continent-shattering war that has to happen before the first...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Four fabulous Guild Wars 2 vistas worth visting
Guild Wars 2 makes me tick because the creatives at ArenaNet have laid such a unique and amazingly vast world at my character's feet, filled with...
WildStar shows off its next raid, Initialization Core Y-83
WildStar is bringing a new raid into the game, Initialization Core Y-83, and it's pretty different from its previous raids. Not fond of attunement...
Global Chat: Are MMO players too mean to game developers?
Is it too easy to forget that MMOs, like all video games, are made by people just like you and I? Belghast over at...
RIFT chronicles the remaking of the Hammerknell raid
If you came into RIFT late in its life cycle, you missed Hammerknell. If you weren't raiding when Hammerknell was super relevant to the...
Marvel Heroes adds AXIS raid
Gazillion says that Marvel Heroes was the first online action RPG to featuring raiding, and it's following that up with a new one called...
Destiny fixes raid bugs, balances strike difficulty
Both raids and strikes lie heavily upon the minds of Destiny's development team as it prepares a number of fixes in the coming Update...
RIFT turns a raid into an instant adventure playground
Raids are usually the purview of, y'know, raiders in MMOs, which is unfortunate as much of the game's population won't get to see all...
Massively Overthinking: Crowd control in MMORPGs
Today's Kickstarter-begotten Massively Overthinking question arrives from donor Ravenwynd, who writes,
I love control type characters in mmos. City of Heroes' Mind Controller could lock down...
10 ways MMOs have changed the real world for the better
Are MMOs pointless time-wasters, the bread and circuses of the modern era, or do they make positive, meaningful contributions to the real world? Well,...
EverQuest II cuts expansions, debuts DLCs with Rum Cellar
With everything that has happened over the last couple of months, players are understandably curious and concerned about of the future of Daybreak Games'...
Five players clear most of WoW’s current high-end raid
How many players does it take to clear a high-end raid in World of Warcraft? If you said "20," you would be correct for...
Guild Chat: The top five ingredients in every great guild
Welcome to Guild Chat, my comfortable little corner of Massively Overpowered in which I dissect the inner workings and tricky politics associated with MMO...
Lost Continent: ArcheAge’s dolphingate was much ado about nothing
I'd like to play devil's advocate about this whole ArcheAge dolphingate thing. First, though, let me start with a disclaimer. If you've read this...
WoW Factor: The design slide from start to present
After more than a decade of operation, a curious thing has happened to World of Warcraft: It's circled back around on an awful lot...
EverQuesting: Celebrating EQ’s 16th year
Happy birthday, sweet sixteen! That's the song going through the air this week as EverQuest celebrates its latest claim to fame: membership in an...
WildStar’s contracts system is an alternate route to great rewards
Stuck at level 50 in WildStar with nothing to do? If you're eschewing the hardcore raiding and PvP life, then you'll be happy to...
