RvR stands for “realm vs. realm,” usually a reference to faction-based player-vs.-player warfare, and frequently (though not always) in the context of more than two realms.
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One Shots: The rat race
At times, I feel like I must be the responsible adult in the MMORPG genre and sit down some of these artists and tell...
Camelot Unchained gives thanks for you
Due to the truncated holiday week, the Camelot Unchained team didn't have as much time to get work done. Still, there was progress made...
Dauntless tosses in a war pike and improves combat
If you are going to make a living out of taking down oversized beasties, you are going to need some serious tools to do...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 145: Farewell Marvel Heroes and Master X Master
Justin and Bree discuss the sunsets of Marvel Heroes and Master X Master, NCsoft's and Funcom's quarterly financials, EA's Star Wars Battlefront 2 business model fiasco, and Path of Exile's upcoming expansion, with a mailbag question on slowing down for classic WoW.
The MOP Up: Osiris New Dawn’s terrifying space ghosts (November 19, 2017)
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...
Ashes of Creation’s city halls will be the center of player politics
With a strong focus on player government and politics, Ashes of Creation is giving careful consideration with how it will structure the leadership of...
Path of Exile’s War for the Atlas expansion opens December 8
It may feel as if Path of Exile just came out with its The Fall of Oriath expansion, but that was last August. The time...
Earth Eternal’s player-run emulator just patched in tons of new stuff
Scroll back in your brain a decade to 2007, when Sparkplay announced it was building an MMORPG called Earth Eternal, a free-to-play, microtransaction-based MMO...
Final Fantasy XIV shows off the mechanics of its upcoming Rival Wings battles
In the Dravanian Hinterlands lie ruins that the Sharlayans once used as testing grounds. The Goblins of Idyllshire are still using it for that...
Divining the details of Harry Potter: Wizards Unite from a Pokemon Go player’s perspective
When we first heard rumors about a Harry Potter version of Pokemon Go, I said I could barely imagine what the game might be like before...
Heroes and Generals quilts together a patch out of player suggestions
Ever wonder if your game's developers are listening? Heroes and Generals' players don't have to; they know the team is hanging on their every...
Camelot Unchained sprints forward with scenario testing
When the bugs are away, the developers will play. Camelot Unchained's team reported that it made significant advancement this past week on its "Saturday Night...
WoW Factor: Is World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth fixing Legion’s many problems?
Back in May, I wrote a whole article about why I was leaving World of Warcraft behind. All of the reasons I had back...
World of Tanks embraces 4K resolution on Xbox One X
War. War never changes. Unless it does, thanks to a new and improved gaming console that offers a much higher resolution than couch commanders...
Kakao will launch Bluehole’s Ascent: Infinite Realm MMORPG in the west
Good morning! Who wants some genuinely good news for the MMORPG genre? Great. Black Desert publisher Kakao is bringing Ascent: Infinite Realm westward. That'd...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth has a weak conflict for a strong focus
The last time I saw this many people asking "why?" about a new World of Warcraft expansion was at the announcement of Mists of...
The MOP Up: Eden Falling brings the turn-based apocalypse (November 5, 2017)
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...
Camelot Unchained builds out deathmatch gameplay for Saturday Night Sieges
Last week, Camelot Unchained posted up its big plans for test hoopla, including its Saturday Night Sieges. In CSE's latest newsletter, it outlines its...
PSA: Guardians of Ember and Total War Arena are free-to-play this weekend
Itching for something to do this weekend? How about some freebie games?
Wargaming announced that its F2P battler Total War: ARENA will host an open...
BlizzCon 2017: World of Warcraft announces Battle for Azeroth expansion
Enough of World of Warcraft's two biggest factions palling together on adventures across time and space -- war has come to this game once...
