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Hyperspace Beacon: I wasn’t going to talk about Anthem, but I think I should
Like everyone else working in or around the gaming industry, I read Kotaku's Jason Schreier's exposé on BioWare's development of Anthem. And like many...
PAX East 2019: Destiny’s Sword aims to take the ludonarrative into actual gameplay
They were called Failure Force, and they were the team that could never make a roll.
My roommate, my wife, and myself were playing a...
Equinox Prime and ongoing Riven changes arrive to Warframe
The rotating stock of Prime 'Frames in Warframe continues its carousel. Players who buy in to Prime Access can now get their hands on...
QC Games says it’s ‘winding down internal operations on Breach’
It looks as if Breach is in trouble, folks - or at least the company behind it is. In a message to players today,...
The Stream Team: SWTOR’s Tatooine balloon ride
Datacrons and balloon rides: The two are inexorably linked in SWTOR. Massively OP's Larry and MJ must fly over the Tatooine sand dunes in...
The Repopulation’s latest dev update covers work on the game server and art optimization
You gotta admire any MMO studio that puts out real news on April 1st, knowing the jokes and questions it will provoke, but that's...
Kotaku’s Anthem exposé unmasks a studio in ‘crisis’ – and BioWare’s response is alarming
Kotaku has another lengthy expose up today, this one homing in on Anthem. Author Jason Schreier interviewed 19 Anthem (and Anthem-adjacent) developers to paint...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 214: No fools we
Justin and Bree discus MMO April Fools' Day, Jumpgate's sequel, Funcom's new Secret World project, EverQuest 3, Rend's abrupt launch, Star Citizen's ladies, and Neverwinter and DDO's expansion dates, with adventures in Guild Wars 2, DDO, and Blade & Soul, and a mailbag question on MMO emulators.
Destiny 2 outlines quality of life adjustments coming in Update 2.2.1
The weekly Destiny 2 report from Bungie is once again full of details for what's coming down the pipeline for the multiplayer shooter. Most...
The Daily Grind: Do you still get excited about upcoming MMORPGs?
It was the late aughts. My husband and I had scraped together money to fly to London for a meet-up with our Europe-based guildies....
Star Wars Galaxies Legends emulator put out a huge March update trying to fix player cities
The April Fools' Day event isn't the only thing that's recently gone live in the fan-favorite Star Wars Galaxies emulator known as Legends. While...
Massively Uplifting: Bethesda’s gift to gaming granny, friendships forged in EverQuest and Guild Wars 2
It is no joke: There is plenty that's good going on in the gaming world, and we want to share that with you. You...
Massively Overpowered feature patch notes for April Oneth
Here at Massively Overpowered, we're always doing our best to make use of our staff's particular talents. We make sure to have Justin saying...
The MOP Up: Warframe descends to Deck 12 on consoles
Warframe's Deck 12 has unlocked for console players -- and there are deep, dark secrets to be uncovered by descending to it.
"Now is the...
Global Chat: Looking back at 20 years of EverQuest
EverQuest's 20th anniversary isn't going unnoticed and unobserved in the gaming community this month. In fact, several MMO bloggers have raised a glass to...
One Shots: CatDog, CatDog
The second I saw Hirku's picture of his Warframe pet, the lyrics of Nickelodeon's CatDog came to mind: One fine day with a woof...
EVE Online is offering up to 250,000 free skillpoints for attendance this weekend
EVE Online players, you're gonna want to log in three times this weekend. Not, like, right in a row. No, you need to time...
Jumpgate spiritual successor Warp Nexus is ‘taking the suck out of the vacuum of space’
File this one under "did not see that coming": Developer Wyrmbyte just announced Warp Nexus, which it's dubbed a spiritual successor to Jumpgate. Aaaaand...
Leaderboard: How important is character gender selection to your MMO play?
Our article about lady toons (finally) in Star Citizen last week got a bit heated. One subthread was locked, unlocked, and locked again because...
Star Citizen’s alpha 3.5 rolls out to all backers this weekend with playable female toons as ATV takes a break
It's gonna be a good weekend for Star Citizen backers: The 3.5 alpha is going live for everyone this weekend. This'd be the update...
