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E3 2018: Bill Roper on gaming’s smoke and mirrors, Worlds Adrift, and building on SpatialOS
For MMO players, Improbable brought some interesting ideas to GDC this past spring. It also brought some games I wasn't expecting, and the ones I...
E3 2018: Mavericks is battle royale on a massively multiplayer scale
Battle royale is all the rage these days, but as we've been covering over the last few months, the SpatialOS-based Mavericks is aiming to...
Massively Overthinking: Why is no one meeting the obvious player demand for big MMORPGs?
Massively OP reader ichi_san has a burning question about the state of the industry.
"Lots of people seem to be looking for an MMO they...
Massively Overthinking: The best of PAX East and GDC in 2018
The past couple of weeks has been wild as we dispatched writers to GDC in San Francisco and PAX East in Boston to gather...
GDC 2018: Ready Player One Now, billion person gaming, and mitigating abuse
It's no surprise that Ready Player One was constantly being referenced at GDC 2018, especially in VR, AR, and MMO panels. It's not just because of...
GDC 2018: Exploring SpatialOS with Improbable CCO Bill Roper
SpatialOS: You've probably been seeing this name pop up more and more in the MMO sphere. Worlds Adrift, Mavericks, Fractured, Seed, MetaWorld, and Identity are just some of the titles we've...
GDC 2018: Making sense of battle royale MMO Mavericks with Automaton Games
So as you may know, I'm an MMORPG guy - not really a battle royale guy. There are some cool ideas for people who like...
Mavericks takes battle royale in the direction of an MMO
Normally there's a firm line of separation between battle royale-style multiplayer shooters and the full-fledged MMORPG, but Automaton's Mavericks may be about to change...
Forsaken Legends is ‘coming back to life’ as an MMORPG, looks at SpatialOS
One small title that we've been following for a few years now is Forsaken Legends, a procedural sandbox that seemed to package a bunch...
Sci-fi MMORPG Project C announced with Thief and Half-Life 2 devs at the helm
Let us make an already interesting MMO news day a bit more so, shall we? How about the introduction of a brand-new, full-fledged MMORPG...
Fractured is close to a funding deal, hints at upcoming spotlights
If the recent silence in Fractured's neck of the woods has troubled you, just remember that sometimes quiet can mean good as well as...
The MOP Up: Path of Exile reads your future in the cards (February 25, 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...
SpatialOS ‘tactical shooter MMO’ Project X will show off gameplay footage in February
Back in September of last year, we covered a mysterious "tactical shooter MMO" called Projext X by Automaton Games. Its chief claims to fame...
Chronicles of Elyria is dropping virtual world platform SpatialOS
Chronicles of Elyria's latest dev blog is out, and it's more than just a recap of 2017 and look ahead to 2018, although it...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Rogalia, Lazarus, Dead Maze, We Ride, and SOS
Welcome back to our intermittent series on MMOs and other multiplayer games you you’ve never heard of! Let's run down five more floating to the...
Worlds Adrift’s 0.1.5 update is almost ready, but the world wipe won’t come ’til after Christmas
Bossa Studios revealed today that Worlds Adrift's 0.1.6 patch - and its associated world wipe - won't make it into tester hands by Christmas....
Fractured tops 5,000 registrations, progresses toward Kickstarter and alpha
Its team might be miniscule, its alpha more than a year away, and its funding still unsecured, but Fractured is powering ahead as best...
MMOs you’ve never heard of: Immortal Thrones, Identity, and Lordmancer II
Welcome back to our intermittent series on MMOs and other multiplayer games you you’ve never heard of! Let's run down three of them.
Immortal Thrones
First up...
Fractured introduces its complex horizontal leveling system
Since this past summer, we've had our eye on Fractured, yet another SpatialOS MMO on the way to hard drives everywhere. If it’s not on...
Automaton Games takes a swing at the battle royale genre with its mystery MMO
Well now PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds will have another battle royale game to fight. UK-based Automaton Games announced that it is working on a new tactical...
