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The MOP Up: The worst Overwatch players ever (December 11, 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...
New MMORPG Ashes of Creation demos environments in new video
The Ashes of Creation team has released a new video to cap off the week, this first one literally a first look at the...
Take a look behind the curtain at The Matrix Online’s emulation history
The last message from The Matrix Online servers came back in 2009. The game is dead and gone. And yet there are still people...
EverQuest II celebrates a new Frostfell event with double the reward items
Christmas time is here in the real world, and while we're decorating trees and decking halls, it's important that we get our winter holiday...
Pantheon’s Shaman will look familiar to traditional MMORPG players
Ahead of its big stream on Friday, Pantheon's newsletter today is bursting with details on the Shaman class, which is due for its reveal...
Exclusive interview with Ashes of Creation’s Jeffrey Bard, formerly of Daybreak
Yesterday we covered a tip about a new MMORPG in the making: Ashes of Creation. Apparently we caught wind of this title before it was...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 94: Play this expansion, meatbag!
Justin, Bree, and Larry talk SWTOR KOTET, Elder Scrolls Online lockboxes, GW2, Black Desert, Daybreak, and Crowfall, with a mailbag question on the Nostalrius WoW emulator.
A nasty EverQuest II bug is eating Kunark Ascending rewards
If you are close to completing EverQuest II’s new Kunark Ascending Signature Quest line, you might want to hold off a bit. At the moment,...
Daybreak confirms its president has stepped down, Columbus Nova exec continues in his stead
Last week, we reported on the news that Daybreak President Russell Shanks, who had been the President of the company ever since John Smedley resigned last...
H1Z1: Just Survive producer’s letter assures players that the game is still moving
There's a certain irony in a zombie game's producer assuring fans that the game is not dead, but that's one of the central points...
H1Z1 wants to put a bag over your head
H1Z1 doesn't think that you're ugly, per se, but... well, it thinks the world would be much better off if it didn't have to...
The Game Archaeologist: A talk with the man behind EQOA’s revival project
This past week we reported on an ongoing attempt by a small group of faithful EverQuest Online Adventure fans to bring back the MMO...
DC Universe Online brings out new holiday outfits and penguins for December
It's time for the holidays in DC Universe Online once again, and that means that a supervillain is going to try to ruin the...
Rumor: Daybreak’s Russell Shanks is out, Columbus Nova exec is in
Wilhelm over at The Ancient Gaming Noob has dug up what appears to be juicy Daybreak news. According to entries on Linkedin and Wikipedia,...
EverQuesting: Preparing to play EverQuest II’s Kunark Ascending
When I first spoke about preparing for EverQuest II’s latest expansion, Kunark Ascending, I pretty much focused only on leveling. That's because you can't...
Perfect Ten: The biggest MMORPG stories of 2016
As we start to come to grips with the fact that we will be turning over the calendar into 2017 in one short month,...
Global Chat: Evaluating the latest MMORPG expansions
This week in our tour through MMO blog posts, we're going to witness a lot of evaluations of recent update and expansion launches that...
EverQuest Online Adventures revival project solicits aid
It's been well over four years since EverQuest Online Adventures was unplugged and its servers shut down, as SOE deemed the old hardware (PlayStation...
DC Universe Online reveals anniversary event, plans for 2017
What's on the agenda for superhero MMORPG DC Universe Online in 2017? Oh not much, just a huge stats revamp, new time-limited events, and...
Star Wars Galaxies players can ‘come home’ to a new NGE emulator
The underground rebels of the Star Wars Galaxies community continue to fight to keep the MMO alive any way that they can. One group...
