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The Game Archaeologist: City of Heroes’ launch history and the Marvel lawsuit
In our first part of this series looking back at the stupendous history of City of Heroes, we saw how the idea for this...
Massively Overthinking: Should MMORPGs incentivize exploration – and how?
Our Daily Grind on exploration last week sparked an intriguing follow-up from MOP reader Miol.
"When asking about sightseeing and exploration in MMORPGs, you also...
Trove is back online after major economy exploit; Trion to offer compensation, ban perpetrators
Trion's voxelbox Trove was down most of yesterday thanks to what screenshots clearly identified as a massive duping exploit that positively trashed the game's economy...
Endless Trials seeks $66K on Kickstarter to build a semi-hardcore endgame PvE MMO that omits grind
Here's a new one for us, and if you like it, you can throw money at it right now: It's called Endless Trials, and...
Trove has been down since the crack of dawn thanks to an economy-breaking dupe exploit
Bad stuff is happening in Trove. Or was happening. Right now, nothing's happening at all because the servers came down early this morning, and...
The Stream Team: The search for Trove dragons continues
Boy oh boy are there lots of dragons Massively OP's MJ needs to find in Trove. She still hasn't found Luxion yet, and now...
Trove is adding 162 player-designed wearables in tomorrow’s update
Trove is gearing up for what it's calling a major quality-of-life update tomorrow. Bomber royale - that's the voxelbox's battle royale mode - is...
LOTRO Legendarium: Is Lord of the Rings Online aging well?
By now, to me, Lord of the Rings Online is a comfortable, well-worn friend that always offers a very predictable and enjoyable experience whenever...
The MOP Up: PlanetSide 2 throws a summer rager (August 5, 2018)
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 Stream Team: Looking for Luxion in Trove
Oh no, Luxion is missing! Trove has somehow lost Luxion; how do you lose a giant golden dragon?! Massively OP's MJ is going to...
Global Chat: The ‘We Don’t Play World of Warcraft’ Club
What do you do when you don't play World of Warcraft but everyone else all around you does and won't stop talking about it...
Why I Play: Trove’s Geode changed me from a visitor to a player
Trove's Geode expansion has been a game-changer - and I mean it in more ways than one.
The latest update/expansion to the colorful voxel-based game...
The Game Archaeologist: Digging up the history of City of Heroes
For the longest time in the early 2000s, MMORPGs scared me off. They looked too obtuse, too grindy, too ugly, and too unapproachable for...
Trove compensates players for recent downtime
A routine maintenance cycle for Trove this past Tuesday triggered a small crisis as bugs slipped in due to a new OS and network...
Defiance 2050 has big plans for new classes, advancement, and endgame as it hits 1M players
Defiance 2050 isn't just launching and going away, oh no: Trion Worlds has a new producer letter up today detailing exactly how it's planning...
Time to go shopping and make friends in retro-sandbox Staxel’s latest update
Ah heck, as I started writing this post, I remembered I defied my "no early access" rule and bought this game on the Steam...
The Stream Team: Popping Trove’s piñata warriors
Today Trove's piñata event is supposed to end, but Massively OP's MJ doesn't know when. That means she has no idea how long she...
ArcheAge, Trove producers address Trion layoffs, tell players not to worry
Last week's Trion Worlds layoffs appeared to have hit ArcheAge particularly hard, with the loss of a well-known producer to the eliminated positions, on...
The Game Archaeologist: Kesmai’s Air Warrior and Legends of Kesmai
Most studios would be overjoyed to have pioneered one significant advancement in video game history, but then again, most studios aren't Kesmai. While it's...
Grab a Survived By closed beta key from Digital Extremes and MOP [All gone!]
Digital Extremes' retro permadeath/bullet-hell MMO Survived By entered closed beta yesterday and rolled out a patch with a new 10-man raid, hardmode dungeons, UI...
