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Massively Overthinking: Random acts of MMORPG kindness
Last week, down in the comments of an innocuous post about gamers being nice in Fortnite, a couple of MOP commenters requested a column...
City of Heroes emulator SEGS cranks up powersets
The Super Entity Game Server (SEGS) continues to push forward with its version to bring a full-featured open source emulator of City of Heroes...
Perfect Ten: The best expansions for specific MMOs
Looking over the past two decades or so, MMORPGs have grown by leaps and bounds with regular releases, events, and (of course) expansion packs....
The Stream Team: DCUO’s The Death of Superman Finale
It's time for the final act -- when the curtain falls for Superman. Well, technically it fell during the second half of DCUO's The...
The MOP Up: Gnomeland Security orders EQ2’s Tinkerfest (July 22, 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...
DC Universe Online joins Aquaman in Atlantis
With the Aquaman movie coming this December, DC Universe Online doesn't want to be left out of the fishy fun. Just before the movie...
DC Universe Online adds the Teen Titans storyline Judas Contract today
It's time for a new story in DC Universe Online, and this time the game is taking a spin with one of the universe's...
Perfect Ten: Endless dungeons in MMOs
Most MMO dungeons are normal songs. You start out and you have a pretty clear picture of the beginning, middle, and end; they don't...
Champions Online puts its lifetime subscription on sale for the price of its freeform slots
We still don't know exactly what the plan is with Champions Online's subscription. The plan to take subscriptions off the table entirely was postponed...
Perfect Ten: Best MMO debuts by year, 2007-2017
Continuing from my previous column that went back to 1997, I'm going to be running through the second decade of graphical MMORPG launches and...
Perfect World updates its Arc client with new features
You may or may not use the Perfect World Entertainment Arc launcher to play games like Neverwinter and Champions Online. There are lots of...
City of Titans offers up a Fourth of July teaser
"Heroes may fall. Heroism never dies."
With a not-so-covert nod to the late City of Heroes, City of Titans' latest 4th of July video attempts to bridge...
Ship of Heroes’ teeny-weeny robot nanites ensure smooth sailing for the superhero starship
Ship of Heroes has a fresh dev blog up today on stuff you can't even see. I'm talking, of course, about nanites, ridiculously tiny...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the most complex character development?
Over the weekend, I was reading a makeup subreddit (don't judge me - I swear there is a gaming point to this) and the...
Trion Worlds offers free MMO goodies for Marvel Heroes refugees
Ever since Trion Worlds announced that it had snapped up all of the remaining assets from Gazillion and Marvel Heroes, we have wondered what...
One Shots: My name is Captain Vanity
As I'm off on vacation this week, I knew that I wasn't going to be able to cull through the previous One Shots comment...
DC Universe Online is giving away free CR 170 characters for logging in this week
It's "member appreciation week" in Daybreak's DC Universe Online, and it lines up nice and neat with the holiday too - how convenient is...
Ship of Heroes shows off its female soldier armor
It would be unfair to say that superhero MMOs are based entirely on the strength of their costume creation, but that costume creation is...
City of Titans is bringing the control lifestyle back, baby
Raise someone else's hand up if you have fond memories of playing a Controller in City of Heroes. The concept of a crowd control...
The Stream Team: A second attempt at DCUO’s second part of The Death of Superman
When Massively OP's MJ tried to do The Death of Superman, part 2 in DCUO, the game died instead. The update killed the launcher...
