survival
Massively Overthinking: Death and dying in MMORPGs
In March of last year, MOP's Justin wrote a detailed guide to the most common death penalties in MMORPGs. Last September, Gamasutra pulled seven...
We’re gonna have gorgeous hair in City of Titans
A few weeks ago, the Massively OP writers were hanging in the news room on a tear about mohawks. We're not against mohawks. Mohawks...
Multiplayer survival sandbox Hellion will launch Steam early access on February 24
On Monday, we reported that survival sandbox Hellion had delayed its planned early access from January to February. Today, Zero Gravity has further clarified...
Daybreak: ‘We have not given up’ on H1Z1’s console launch
Daybreak has posted up an H1Z1: King of the Kill Q&A last night that sheds some light on the state of the game, in one...
Conan Exiles gets $59.99 ‘Barbarian Edition’, launch times
Funcom has announced Conan Exiles: Barbarian Edition, a special edition of the upcoming survival sandbox that boasts a crapton of extras, including a t-shirt,...
Snail Games tries its hand at a zombie MMO with Moonlights
Slow or fast, zombies never stop coming at you, and zombie games are much the same. Snail Games is making an attempt to join...
Hellion delays Early Access launch until February
PvP-based survival sandbox Hellion has been taking aim at a January Early Access launch for quite some time now, but it looks as if...
The MOP Up: No Man’s Sky gets shielded (January 22, 2017)
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: Sequestering an ARK squid
If you thought taming an ARK dino by letting it steal from you was different, get a load of this: taming by blood sacrifice....
Check out the technology behind Ark Park
If you're old enough to remember the first Jurassic Park film, you probably remember the lengthy and involved explanation it gave about the technology...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most unclear futures in 2017
A little while back, I took a look at the healthiest games in the MMO space at this time. That was a nice, uplifting...
The Stream Team: Crashing on Osiris: New Dawn for a first look
What's a good way for Massively OP's MJ to test out her death counter? By playing a survival game! And there just happens to...
ARK modders fight over Pokémon projects
Gotta catch 'em all... unless we're talking about Pokémon mods for ARK: Survival Evolved, in which case there might only be one in the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 100: The nesting instinct in Elder Scrolls Online
Justin and Larry discuss Elder Scrolls Online housing, ARK, The Repopulation, the Switch, Nostalrius, HeroWarz, Pathfinder, and Star Trek Online.
MMO lockboxes, keys, and booster packs: Gambling or gaming?
Lockboxes have become a hot topic over the last couple of years. Last month, both our writers and readers crowned SWTOR worst business model of...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO do you most regret Kickstarting?
With Pathfinder Online, The Repopulation, and TUG all back in the news this week either hunting for money, being acquired, or undergoing a total...
New Dawn heads to Kickstarter for financial support
Stop us if you've heard this game concept before: You wake up on an island and have to survive the elements, your own hunger,...
Funcom stresses the importance of lore and mystery in Conan Exiles
Conan lore is probably the most contentious thing about the franchise, and Funcom today has clarified the focus of that lore in Conan Exiles when...
TUG works on producing a ‘minimally viable product’
Emerging from months of relative silence, Nerd Kingdom penned a short Kickstarter update about what's happening with the social sandbox world of TUG. It...
The Stream Team: Pegomastax, ARK’s pesky pickpocket
ARK has certainly gotten creative with its dinos. One of the recent additions is a crafty little thief that will literally pickpocket you, then...
