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The Daily Grind: Would you play on a vanilla World of Warcraft server?
Word that wildly popular "progressive vanilla" World of Warcraft emulator Nostalrius is sunsetting in the face of a Blizzard legal threat has dominated MMORPG...
WoW emulator Nostalrius’ sunset renews calls for retro WoW servers
As we reported last night, Blizzard lawyers issued a legal threat against popular vanilla World of Warcraft emulator server Nostalrius, propelling its administrators to begin...
Trove previews the Gem system coming with the Mantle of Power expansion
The upcoming expansion for Trove offers you a chance to really alter your character fundamentally with the new Gem system. A new preview outlines...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 59: This great stage of fools
Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2 SAB and legendary weapons, WoW, EVE's World War Bee, FFXI, TSW's new issue, and WildStar's Arcterra, with mailbag questions on similar MMO experiences and customer support.
Skip through the daisies unmolested on Linkrealms’ new PvE server
Interested in playing the old-school Linkrealms but feeling a little shy about its PvP setting? There's going to be a place for you in...
Guild Wars 2 brings back Super Adventure Box for April Fools’ Day
So we're going to cross our fingers and hope that this is all true and not just a new April Fools' joke about an...
Trove adds a mess o’ tiger mounts in today’s patch
A small patch to Trove today has added a trio of big cat mounts to chaos chests. While there's a tiger and an ocelot...
Guest Interview: Lusternia, MUDs, and the evolution of MMOs
This guest interview was commissioned through Massively Overpowered's 2015 Kickstarter campaign by donor Brett Richards, who interviewed Lusternia Producer Robb French in lieu of a Soapbox. Any opinions here...
The Game Archaeologist: The Wish that wasn’t
First of all, "wish" is one of those words that ends up looking dang strange the more you focus on it. Wish, wish, wish,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG could use a good reboot?
MMORPG reboots might be impractical and inadvisable, but games from Darkfall and DUST 514 to MapleStory and Linkrealms are all giving (or have given)...
Jukebox Heroes: MMO tracks to make your heart happy
Music doesn't just speak to emotion; it often evokes it, conjuring it out of thin air with notes and tones and those squiggly lines...
Realms of Alanar wants to make a retro-style virtual fantasy world with your help
If you were creating a sandbox MMO, what would your feature list look like? For one small indie developer, his feature set is everything...
Trove: Mantle of Power will introduce stellar gear with rainbow auras
All leet players know that to truly show off how snowflake-special they are; there need to be blindingly bright auras emanating around their characters, as...
The Daily Grind: What temporary MMO content do you wish would return?
Massively OP reader Guhracie emailed us a few weeks ago, upset about Guild Wars 2's popular Super Adventure Box. SAB was technically temporary content...
One Shots: You got something on your face
There is a grand conspiracy among MMO developers and it is this: Every last one of them has entered into a blood pact to...
The Game Archaeologist: The sad saga of Stargate Worlds
In 1994, a science-fiction movie called Stargate took the idea of alien portals that allowed people to travel instantaneously across the universe and turned it...
Jukebox Heroes: ARK: Survival Evolved’s soundtrack
If you've been hiding in a cave on Mars with your fingers in your ears and your social media feeds on the fritz, you...
Massively Overthinking: The curse of player-generated MMO content
The influx of new player-generated-content-oriented MMOs might make you think that PGC is on the rise, but if you've been around the genre for...
Mantle of Power expansion to take Trove to weird and wonderful places
Think you've seen everything that Trove has to offer? No matter how experienced a cubic adventurer you are, you've got another thing or two...
MMORPGs celebrate The Revenant’s Oscars
If your MMORPG has a Revenant class, you'd best not be missing the opportunity to plug it today, as the movie celebrates its three...
