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Ghost in the Shell: First Assault is now in open beta
Online shooter Ghost in the Shell: First Assault: Stand Alone Complex Online is going to take home this year's award for most unwieldy title...
Fragmented’s latest patch centers on player housing, drops price to $9.99
Above & Beyond Technologies patched Fragmented with its 16.7.2 build today with a focus on housing and player-constructed bases, complete with a new UI...
The Battle of Odessen, the final chapter of SWTOR’s KOTFE, arrives August 11
It was always going to come down to this. It's time to bring an end to Star Wars: The Old Republic's latest expansion story, and...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 75: Future oracles
Justin and Bree discuss WoW, Guild Wars 2, Shards Online, LOTRO & DDO, FFXIV, Black Desert, and more, with a mailbag question on boosting GW2 characters.
Destiny delivers its final update to ‘legacy’ consoles
Before Destiny places its Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 versions in their own maintenance mode bubble, the online game has one final gift for the so-called...
Rumor: Firefall’s Red 5 Studios has suffered mass layoffs
Former Red 5 Studios employees are suggesting the company is in big trouble today. Community Manager FadedPez has apparently been discharged from the studio.
https://twitter.com/FadedPez/status/757697647075467264
Matt DeWald...
Defiance ditches its brand-new auction house
Easy come, easy go: Just two months after Defiance added a game-wide auction house, the title is now removing it entirely.
According to Trion Worlds,...
The Daily Grind: Do you think of yourself as an MMO PvPer?
Whether I've consciously realized it or not, I've been a PvPer since my first FFA PvP sandbox, Ultima Online, in 1997. Since then, I've...
EVE Evolved: When was EVE Online’s golden age?
In the latest Massively Overthinking article, our Patreon patron Duane got us thinking about whether the golden age of the MMO industry has passed or MMOs are actually in...
The MOP Up: Planet of Heroes comes into orbit (July 24, 2016)
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...
One Shots: Strange voyages
As cool and iconic that Star Trek ships look, I've always thought they also came across as fragile, with pieces sticking out here and...
WildStar lights a fire under PvP with its Battle Chase event
You know how your parents would sometimes outright bribe you to do something you were scared of or hated? Don't put it past an...
Star Trek Online is heading to Star Trek Las Vegas
Are you heading out to the City of Gin-Soaked Regrets (or "Las Vegas" as it's more commonly known) for Star Trek Las Vegas? Because...
Star Wars: The Old Republic devs get cagey on the subject of new ops and classes
Will Star Wars: The Old Republic ever get new operations instead of just more episodic story releases? According to a private Q&A session with...
Star Citizen’s Around the Verse: Procedural planets, GrimHex, and free-fly
The fourth and final 100th episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse is up -- OK, so it's really 103, right? But they are...
EverChaosing: Adapting Pokemon Go for The Secret World and EverQuest II
So there's this thing right now. It's kind of a craze. Maybe you've heard of it? Pokemon Go? Yeah, I thought so. The thing...
Perfect Ten: Older PC games that would make for great MMOs
Video games had a huge impact on my childhood and teenage years, imprinting themselves onto my psyche for all of the struggles and elation...
Warframe was hacked in 2014 to the tune of almost 800,000 email addresses
If you've been playing Warframe a long time, it's a good time to refresh your account credentials.
Vice's Motherboard blog reports this week that it...
Global Chat: Pokemon GO mania sweeps the world
What became an overnight global phenomenon certainly prompted the MMO blogosphere to talk about their experiences and opinions with Pokémon GO!
To Game for Life...
The Stream Team: Chasing Revan in SWTOR
Have you hung out in a Rishii village? MassivelyOP's Larry and MJ are going to hobnob with the locals as they follow the next...