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"Father of MMORPGs" Dr. Richard Bartle, author of the pioneering research that spawned the Bartle test, is publishing two new books about our imperiled genre. MMOs from...

This year, we're taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we head...

The Daily Dot has a long piece out this week on its Kernel subsection all about Star Wars Galaxies and its emulator underground. Author Dennis Scimeca...

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...

People wear many hats in life, and noted game developer Raph Koster has donned another one that most folks aren't used to seeing him...

It became one of the most infamous moments in MMO history -- and perhaps one of the most misunderstood. For all that the MMO community...

ArtCraft's Raph Koster is the star witness of an in-depth interview in which he discusses the development of Crowfall using the perspective of his...

Star Wars Galaxies would have been 12 years old this week, had it lived a day past Star Wars: The Old Republic. That makes...

This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter donor Aldranis, whose query neatly dovetails with the IP-related question we answered on the...

You might know Raph Koster from his MMO legacy as a designer on Ultima Online or Star Wars Galaxies, or perhaps from his current...

Raph Koster has wrapped up his Star Wars Galaxies retrospective with a blog post that asks whether or not the sci-fi MMORPG failed. It's a...

MMO designer Raph Koster is back with yet another post-mortem on Star Wars Galaxies, this one the second part of his "living society" discussion. Get...

Veteran game designer Raph Koster has been delivering a series of Star Wars Galaxies post-mortem posts over the past few weeks. We've rounded up...

Former Star Wars Galaxies Creative Director and current Crowfall consultant Raph Koster returned to his blog last night to pen the fourth in his...

Raph Koster isn't done talking about Star Wars Galaxies yet, and that's good news for fans, aspiring designers, or really anyone who realizes that...

Hope you're not tired of hearing about Star Wars Galaxies because Raph "Holocron" Koster's got SWG on the brain this week, and he's answering...

A long time ago on a website far, far away, we were having a discussion about modern MMOs and their inability to make sandboxes more than thinly disguised...

After years of digging into the field of classic MMOs, I know there aren't too many undiscovered titles that haven't been brought to my attention...

I think you'll agree with me that Daybreak could really use some good news right about now, and today, it's got some. Daybreak President...

What do you get when you take a few of the most experienced developers in the MMO industry and give them the freedom to...