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The Game Archaeologist: A look back at proto-MMOs through the 1980s
Today I want to try something a little different as we look at MMORPG history. Rather than focus in on a single title or...
Stars Reach’s Raph Koster: ‘We’re going into space, and it’s going to be awesome’
Playable Worlds' Raph Koster is back with yet another batch of Stars Reach game pillars, the driving concepts behind the MMORPG sandbox's design. We've...
Stars Reach’s Raph Koster argues that a persistent virtual world is ‘too powerful an idea’ to dismiss
Those watching the online gaming genre with a growing sense of dismay at everything drifting away from large, persistent MMO worlds may find solace...
TennoCon 2024: Music, motorbikes, and romance make Warframe 1999
It's the 1990s! We've heard of snips and snails and puppy dog tails, and sugar and spice and everything nice. But what is Warframe...
Sandbox MMO Dragon and Home adds the Void Isle and photo mode next month
Looking for a cozy and comfy MMO to augment those summer vibes? You don't necessary have to scan for something brand-new, as indie sandbox...
The Daily Grind: What do you think about floating combat text in MMOs?
When Trove launched its Rising Tide update back in June, Gamigo's PR included a ton of screenshots, including several of a character with massive...
Overwatch 2’s new retro sci-fi support hero, Juno, is playable this weekend
If you're in the mood for an extremely cute retro space-age support hero in Overwatch 2, Blizzard is obliging your very specific tastes with...
Stalcraft X is an overhaul of the original free-to-play survival extraction MMOFPS
There are enough multiplayer shooters out there to have some fly under the radar, which has arguably been the case for the MMOFPS Stalcraft,...
The Stream Team: A very voxel Trove birthday
Today, Trove turned nine years old! And if that wasn't reason enough for the voxel game to vie for Massively OP's MJ attention, the...
Sandbox MMORPG Trove begins Sunfest celebrations for its ninth birthday
It's official: Trion/Gamigo's voxel sandbox MMORPG Trove is turning nine years old today and is celebrating with its annual Sunfest events.
"It's time to have...
The Game Archaeologist: World of Warcraft in the 1990s
MMORPGs don't pop out of nowhere, ex nihilo, to suddenly be enjoyed by players across the globe. Good ones take several years, dozens of...
Trove celebrates ninth birthday, plans Sunfest, and offers console roadmap
Next week, Trion's original voxelbox Trove turns nine years old, and though Trion is long gone, current handler Gamigo and its severely underpaid community...
Gamigo offloads Desert Operations and Wargame 1942 publishing to Fawkes with only two weeks’ notice on migrations
Remember back at the end of 2020, when Gamigo began rather obviously to divest itself of most of its publishing agreements and video games,...
MU Online is getting another game in its lineup called MU Monarch SEA
Who wanted another MU Online game? If you're sitting on your hands, then perhaps you're not being paid attention to by Webzen, or perhaps...
Trove warns players to ditch exploited items before they ‘lead to irreversible damage’
While PC players are surfing the waves of Trove's new Rising Tide update and its underwater biome, there's something disturbing happening just below the...
Bohemia’s multiplayer survival sandbox Ylands has officially landed on Switch for offline play
As we've been chronicling - and I might be a little obsessed with it now that I'm finally catching up on its existence, sorry...
Trove adds a new underwater biome in today’s Rising Tides PC update
Does a rising tide lift all boats? You'll have to log into voxelbox MMO Trove today to find out, as Gamigo has launched its...
Land of Might is a ‘retro 16-bit bullet hell roguelike MMORPG’ that can be played in a browser
Here at Massively Overpowered, we cover as much of our genre as we can. Big or small, indie studio or major studio, PC, browser,...
Here’s how to get in on Friday’s Monsters and Memories four-hour stress test
Monsters & Memories isn't fooling around as it prepares for a full weekend playtest later this month. The retro-styled MMO already had one limited...
Trove begins summer festival, Pride event, and Rising Tides update testing
Gamigo's Trove might be the company's crown jewel MMO, even if it does still fly under the radar of more hardcore MMORPG players. It...
