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EVE Online is planning to weaken Force Auxiliaries
It's just too easy for Force Auxiliaries to heal other ships right now in EVE Online. That's the reason behind the balance proposal put...
Star Wars: The Old Republic lists Season 9 ranked PvP rewards
Grab that lightsaber or blaster and get to making war on your fellow player, because Star Wars: The Old Republic is about to finish...
The Stream Team: Star Trek Online’s Victory is Life story through Jem’Hadar eyes
Massively OP's MJ made a Gamma Recruit Jem'Hadar last week, and now that he is out of the intro, she's ready to take him...
Perfect Ten: Endless dungeons in MMOs
Most MMO dungeons are normal songs. You start out and you have a pretty clear picture of the beginning, middle, and end; they don't...
EVE Online has banned almost 20,000 accounts since February for botting and RMT
Y'all remember the wild mess in EVE Online last winter and spring, when CCP Games said it was "coming for the bots" and getting...
The Daily Grind: How should MMO studios handle game reboots?
Over the past several years, we have witnessed several MMOs being rebooted and relaunched, including Final Fantasy XIV, Secret World Legends, and, most recently,...
The Stream Team: Taking puppy for a Warframe walk
Massively OP's MJ has a cute little throat-ripping puppy in Warframe, and it's all grown up and ready to play! So MJ is going...
Destiny 2 deploys Solstice of Heroes: Moments of Triumph update
Good times just might be here if Destiny 2 has anything to say about it. Today, the sci-fi shooter deployed Update 1.2.3 and the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 178: #womenarecosmetic
Justin and Bree discuss WoW's Battle for Azeroth, Wild West Online, Star Citizen, Defiance 2050, Rend, and Fractured, with a mailbag question on in-game conflict resolution and a special interview on Blaugust Reborn.
The Survivalist: Using Conan Exiles for a virtual tabletop campaign
So I've been thinking. (A dangerous pastime, I know!) And I have actually been formulating an idea. And that is using a survival game...
No Man’s Sky’s Next update drops next week with absurd amounts of space and land content
Don't call it an MMO yet, but Even More Multiplayer is making its way to No Man's Sky with its "Next" update. Hello Games...
Check out all of the Warframe’s TennoCon 2018 videos
If you missed out on the glory of TennoCon 2018, you can take in most of the Warframe experience thanks to the cache of...
The Daily Grind: How can we solve Reddit’s gaming ‘tragedy of the commons’ problem?
In dealing with the ArenaNet fallout over the last couple of weeks, I started giving serious thought to the Reddit problem in gaming, and...
Defiance 2050 performs better than its predecessor but hasn’t won the community over
With last week's launch of the revamped and rebooted Defiance 2050, Trion Worlds was betting on players flocking back to the sci-fi MMO shooter...
Star Citizen backer took CIG to small claims court over his refund request – and lost
The Star Citizen refunds subreddit is often the home of big words and tall tales, but Redditor firefly212 did more than just talk: He...
The Daily Grind: Which online game has suffered the most from its own hype?
I've still got hype on the brain. We've talked about the length of hype cycles and under-hyped MMOs. Now I want to talk about...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s DS9 expansion gets a console release date (July 14, 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...
Global Chat: Looking back at World of Warcraft’s Legion
Now that the next World of Warcraft expansion is almost upon us, it's time to say farewell to Legion and all that that entails....
Destiny 2’s upcoming patch tweaks Quickplay, Rumble, and bounties as Bungie preps for Forsaken
Destiny 2's 1.2.3 patch (yay soothing numbers) drops on Tuesday, and if you're thinking it may be a good time for re-entry, you're gonna...
Former SWTOR creative lead James Ohlen departs BioWare, former Hearthstone boss Ben Brode announces new company
Some industry news this morning: James Ohlen announced that he's retiring from BioWare after more than two decades at the company. MMORPG fans will...
