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Dean Hall’s Stationeers don’t want no scrubs
DayZ's Dean Hall says his new sci-fi survivalbox Stationeers is launching early access in September, and he isn't sugarcoating the game's difficulty.
You might remember...
MMO researcher Nick Yee is ‘dispeling myths about female gamers’
Quantic Foundry researcher and long-time MMO academic Nick Yee has an intriguing blog post out this week titled Dispelling Myths about Female Gamers in...
Frontier Developments plans a convention for Elite: Dangerous in October
Do you have a deep and abiding love for Planet Coaster? Probably not. How about Elite: Dangerous? Yes, that's good, many more hands are...
MMO dev and astronaut Richard Garriott hosts a Reddit AMA on /r/space today
Curious about astrophysics? The Massively OP Podcast brought on a special guest for a fun holiday bonus 'cast back in 2015 to answer a...
Choose My Adventure: Two approaches to whining about DC Universe Online
Dear readers, today I am going to try something different for all of you. And it's predicated on the fact that I'm not just...
Elite Dangerous’ David Braben on communities, MMOs, F2P, and the space game genre
Elite Dangerous' David Braben has a big spread in Rolling Stone's Glixel blog this week, and it's a fun read as he zips around...
Valiance Online livestreams its development alpha test
In an epic-length livestream this past weekend, the Valiance Online team showed off its development alpha test and discussed some of the systems and...
The MOP Up: Crash Force offers arena fun at a discount (July 16, 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...
Monetization expert: MMOs are dying because of clueless design, not insufficient demand
MMORPG players just love it when somebody declares the MMORPG dead, right? All those games you're playing, all the games we're writing about and...
EVE Online’s July release furthers exoplanet research, revamps T3 strategic cruisers
Happy July patch day, capsuleers! Yep, EVE Online's July release is now live. The patch includes "one of the most extensive and largest rebalances...
EVE Online puts players to work sorting through new exoplanet data
The space explored by players in EVE Online is far beyond our own solar system, but here in the real world we're still struggling...
MMORPG founding father Richard Bartle establishes new unplayer matrix
Dr Richard Bartle, best known to MMORPG players for establishing the research that ultimately led to the admittedly flawed but widely quoted "Bartle test,"...
Anthem compares itself to Star Wars and Marvel movies
When BioWare's newest IP finally arrives on your computer screen next year, don't expect a hard sci-fi approach in the vein of Mass Effect...
E3 2017: Why MMO players should be paying attention to Elite Dangerous
I sat down with Elite Dangerous Senior Designer Sandy Sammarco again at E3 2017, and while the information I've got in terms of game info may...
How Star Citizen uses science to build out its galaxy
This week's episode of Star Citizen Around the Verse sees Cloud Imperium's Chris Roberts and Eric Kieron Davis bookending Foundry 42, Ship Shape, and...
Skyforge turns alien plants into assault gliders
Who said science can't be profitable? Skyforge is calling all players to descend from their godly pantheons to engage in a little botony for...
Overwatch begins booking trips to the moon on June 20
Next week Joe and Jane Gamer can secure their own ticket to the moon itself -- granted that they are playing Overwatch. Blizzard is...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online Fluidic Antiproton Wrist Lance for Xbox One
In honor of the launch of Star Trek Online's season 13 Escalation for console, PWE has granted Massively OP a stack of Fluidic Antiproton Wrist Lances, a...
Another study finds Pokemon Go improves players’ physical activity
Yet another academic group has published research suggesting that Pokemon Go can be a useful tool for promoting exercise.
Duke University researchers funded by the...
Da Ji is live in SMITE today; enter our giveaway to snag her special skin!
If I never read another story about a woman whose beauty ruins everything, I'll be thrilled. However, the Da Ji of Chinese mythology at...
