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The MOP Up: PlanetSide 2 throws a summer rager (August 5, 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...
The Stream Team: Poking into City of Heroes bases thanks to Paragon Chat
You may not be able to return home to City of Heroes, but you can return to your home in CoH thanks to the...
The Stream Team: Auditioning for DCUO’s Teen Titans team
The Teen Titans have joined DCUO, and they want Massively OP's MJ to join! Well, by want we mean that she has to audition...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 180: Superstoked for heroic MMOs
Justin and Bree discuss the influence of City of Heroes (Paragon Chat, SEGS, Valiance Online, Ship of Heroes, and City of Titans), plus WoW, No Man's Sky, SWGemu, Camelot Unchained, STO, CCP's new MMO, and Rend, with a mailbag entry on comments negativity.
Ship of Heroes recaps its July progress, including work on characters, Unreal, and TrueSKY
It was a bit of an unplanned superhero MMORPG weekend, what with news from City of Titans, Ship of Heroes, and City of Heroes'...
Paragon Chat now features City of Heroes supergroup base building, complete with import
If you're wondering what that sound is echoing over the horizon, it's just every City of Heroes fan freaking out about the return of...
City of Titans shows off villain costuming and body parts
Not every villainous group you will fight in City of Titans is exactly human. But the latest art development entry from the team shows...
Ship of Heroes introduces the mixed-race Meltdown, preps for August login test
Superhero and... wealthy mixed-race intergalactic businessman? That's the intriguing makeup of Ship of Heroes' Meltdown, a character who is as much a CEO of...
The Game Archaeologist: Digging up the history of City of Heroes
For the longest time in the early 2000s, MMORPGs scared me off. They looked too obtuse, too grindy, too ugly, and too unapproachable for...
Champions Online brings back its Nighthawk event, creates the Samurai archetype
If a hawk is cool, a Nighthawk is four times as cool. Champions Online knows this, which is why it's bringing back its Nighthawk...
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...
