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Ship of Heroes becomes the fourth City of Heroes spiritual successor
How many spiritual successors will it take to fill the void that was left by City of Heroes' shutdown? We now know the answer:...
Here’s the schedule for all of PWE’s Christmas events
Perfect World wasted no time in pulling the trigger on its crop of winter holiday events now that December is here. The MMORPG publisher...
Star Trek Online’s winter event adds Klingon ice fishing, gives out free prize packs
Break out the tacky sweaters and replicate some eggnog, because Star Trek Online's winter wonderland event is back. This year, the team has added...
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,...
PWE is running big sales for Star Trek Online, Neverwinter, Livelock, and more
For those of you folks who you somehow have money still burning a whole in your pocket at noon on Black Friday, here comes one...
Massively OP’s 2016 gift guide for the MMO internet spaceships fanatic
While some of us are toiling away on the ground in plate armor while fighting furry monstrosities, there's a whole world of internet spaceships...
Perfect Ten: Moments to be thankful for in MMOs
It's the holiday once again, and somehow I've wound up on Thanksgiving Day here in the US. You may not be reading this on...
Star Trek Online deploys fleets to consoles
While those playing Star Trek Online on consoles are a bit behind the game's PC client, that also means that they get updates a...
Star Trek Online gives an admiralty system primer
While Star Trek Online PC players may be well acquainted with the admiralty system by now, it's brand-new to the Xbox One and PlayStation...
Perfect Ten: The worst patch naming in MMORPGs
Patches should, in all honesty, be the easiest thing in the world for online games to handle. You have a word that means patch,...
Star Trek Online brings the duty officer system to consoles
As we well know by now, a console edition of a PC MMORPG usually doesn't contain all of the same features and updates. There's...
One Shots: Postcards from the universe
I am not above indulging in a little universe window shopping now and then. NASA's pictures of the universe might be touched up with...
The MOP Up: FFXI revs up appreciation campaigns (October 30, 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...
Star Trek Online reports over a million console captains in a new infographic
A couple of players have been attracted to Star Trek Online on console, and by "a couple" we mean "a little over one million."...
Perfect Ten: My demands to MMORPGs after 13 years
I've mentioned many times that my first MMO was Final Fantasy XI. It released in North America 13 years ago as of tomorrow. I...
Star Trek Online rolls out Agents of Yesterday: Artifacts
The Temporal Cold War has wrapped up in Star Trek Online... for now, anyhow. That's the thing about time travel; it never really ends,...
Star Trek Online previews its next featured episode, Echoes of Light
You can try to hide from the rest of the galaxy in Star Trek Online, but even though the galaxy is a very large...
The Game Archaeologist: Classic PlanetSide
Unlike fantasy, the sci-fi genre has had a rocky relationship with MMORPGs. While studios have tried just as hard to make and promote them,...
Perfect Ten: Incompetent leaders in MMORPGs
Leadership is difficult. You have to get a group of people to work together when they may or may not be naturally inclined to...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with vehicle avatars
When you take a step back and look at the broad MMO genre, you see some common threads that run through most games. One...
