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Global Chat: Dipping back into MMO underwater combat
Guild Wars 2's recent renovation of underwater combat has brought back some interest to this oft-neglected sphere of gameplay. Inventory Full's Bhagpuss used this...
Ship of Heroes discusses milestones and communication, plus we’ve got new day/night screenies
The transparency that comes with crowdfunded and indie MMORPGs is awesome - when everything is going to plan. But what about when it isn't?...
The Stream Team: Diving into the Death of Superman, part 1
Superman looks pretty good for 80, doesn't he? And 80 is definitely a birthday worth celebrating. That is exactly what DCUO is doing with...
DC Universe Online is celebrating 80 years of Superman… with the Death of Superman
For 80 years, everyone has enjoyed Superman. Everyone other than balding, transparently evil corporate overlords, anyhow. DC Universe Online players have enjoyed him in...
Perfect Ten: How MMOs can become more accessible
Back in the late 1990s and early 2000s, I was remarkably reluctant to enter into the field of MMORPGs despite being a perfect candidate...
The Daily Grind: What made City of Heroes work so well?
Although City of Heroes is not coming back (I think we all need to come to terms with that), many successors are waiting in...
The MOP Up: Diablo levels up in Heroes of the Storm (May 13, 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...
One Shots: First MMO loves
What was your first? Not necessarily the first MMORPG you ever played, but the first that made you fall in love with that game...
Champions Online releases brand-new content with the Save the Earth alert
Champions Online is really not going to stop reminding everyone that it's become the "longest running superhero MMO of all time," chiefly by simply...
Perfect Ten: You got your MMORPG in my tabletop RPG
Tabletop games and MMORPGs seem like they would go well together, but remarkably they often don't. That's true for several reasons, but one of...
Ship of Heroes hints at ‘significant’ login test to come
Hope your brightly colored spandex is back from the dry cleaners, because you're going to need them sooner rather than later. The team at...
Massively Overthinking: The state of modern MMORPG raiding
Massively OP reader Sorrior recently sent in a question about raiding, a topic we haven't discussed in a while.
"I have noticed raiding tends to...
DCUO’s spring event is a venomous poison
Ah spring is in the air! The flowers are blooming! Trees are budding! People are dying! That's what you get for tailoring an entire...
Perfect Ten: MMOs with different (camera) perspectives
By the time that World of Warcraft came on the scene in 2004, the MMORPG industry had already gravitated toward standard when it came...
Perfect World is sunsetting Swordsman Online and Jade Dynasty as teams move on to ‘bigger and better things’
Perfect World announced two sunsets yesterday: Four-year-old Swordsman Online and nine-year-old Jade Dynasty will close down in June. Here's the official announcement for Swordsman...
Season four – and that pesky meteor overhead – are finally approaching Fortnite
Players have been speculating a lot about what will happen when the meteor hanging in the sky over Fortnite's world finally hits, but we'll...
Missing 14-year-old City of Heroes? The SEGS emulator is looking for coders
Are you missing City of Heroes this week, what with the 14th anniversary of its launch and all? We are too. Earlier this month,...
Daybreak: Here’s where the EverQuest franchise, DCUO, PlanetSide 2, H1Z1, and Just Survive stand
Not counting Standing Stone's titles, Daybreak currently develops and publishes six of its once massive stable of MMOs: Both EverQuests, DC Universe Online, PlanetSide...
Global Chat: Shroud of the Avatar confounds
What to make of Shroud of the Avatar? The few MMO bloggers who have looked into this recently released but already long-running title have...
The Stream Team: Partying in Paragon Chat to celebrate City of Heroes’ anniversary
Celebration might not be quite the right word to use when referring to the City of Heroes anniversary, but that doesn't mean fans don't...
