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The Game Archaeologist: How Sceptre of Goth shaped the MMO industry
When it comes to text-based MMOs created in the '80s, '90s, and 2000s, the sheer number of them would blot out the sky. There...
The Daily Grind: Are there any MMOs you think are just too late to start playing?
I've been playing a lot of Ultima Online the past few weeks, but so many times I'll be doing something that is objectively tedious...
Massively Overthinking: Disentangling MMO classes and races
Last week, a guildie of mine mentioned that he'd been interested in Crowfall until he realized he couldn't be a gerbil (Guineacean) of the...
EverQuesting: EverQuest II’s Proving Grounds prove to be a tad frustrating
Prove it.
EverQuest II recently introduced a new feature with the release of GU103 back on May 10th called the Proving Grounds. That place is...
EverQuest’s new classic server has rough launch
If you're looking for the authentic classic MMO experience, shouldn't a rough launch be part of it? That's kind of the sour joke you...
EverQuest launches Agnarr classic server
When it comes to EverQuest, it turns out you can go back again -- over and over again, in fact. This fantasy MMO has...
Destiny 2 will take you to Titan, Io, and beyond
With the Vanguard scattered to the interstellar wind in Destiny 2, it will be up to player characters to travel to different planets in...
The Stream Team: EverQuest II’s pirate-filled Proving Grounds
Last week Daybreak pulled a switcheroo (or more accurately, didn't switch!), keeping the Felwith map in EQII's new Proving Grounds instead of changing. But...
PSA: Today’s the last day to get a freebie level 100 toon in EverQuest II
If you haven't hopped back into EverQuest II since the launch of The Menagerie update earlier this month, you might want to do it...
APB Reloaded brainstorms a ‘gangland survival mode’
See if you can follow the chain of progression here. In APB Reloaded's most recent dev diary, the team says that it's about done...
DCUO preps WWII-era Age of Justice update for June
There's some positive word-of-mouth bubbling out about this summer's Wonder Woman feature film, which, if true, would be a boon to the bruised DC movie...
Massively Overthinking: Being Uncle Owen in MMORPGs
Ever since the tone-deaf SOE proclamation that nobody wanted to play Uncle Owen in an MMORPG, contrary me has consciously fought that very stupid...
H1Z1: King of the Kill’s latest update makes combat less painful
H1Z1: King of the Kill has gotten lots of love from Daybreak this week with the release of a brand-new update as teased last...
Tamriel Infinium: Five things to do while waiting for Elder Scrolls Online’s Morrowind early access
I have always found this part of the development cycle to be the worst part. Right now, we are sitting at the point in...
MMO devs eulogize EverQuest II developer John Tessin
We're sorry to report this evening the passing of an MMORPG genre veteran, John Tessin, who worked for SOE for 13 years, most extensively on EverQuest...
The Stream Team: A peek into EverQuest II’s Proving Grounds
EverQuest II just opened up a new type of content to players: the Proving Grounds. Each week for two weeks there's a new competition...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 117: Starfall no more
On this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin is joined by MJ to chit-chat about The Secret World (Legends), ESO Morrowind, TERA, RIFT, Wild West Online, Guild Wars 2, ARK, Conan Exiles, EverQuest II, Warframe, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on returning to MMOs, F2P MMO recommendations, and our old Marvel Heroes guild.
The MOP Up: Life is Feudal’s building sim (May 14, 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...
One Shots: MMOs are serious business
As we all well know, MMORPGs are a Serious Business indeed. We must treat them reverently and with our utmost due diligence as we...
Massively Overthinking: Is the MMO genre facing an identity crisis?
MMORPG blogger and MOP commenter Isarii (@ethanmacfie) recently published an excellent video positing that the MMO industry is facing a "massive identity crisis."
"The MMO...
