Disambiguation:
– Tribes: Ascend, a multiplayer online shooter
– Tribes series, a series of online multiplayer shooters that began in 1998
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Wisdom of Nym: Affection for Final Fantasy XIV’s beast tribes
I really like the beast tribes of Final Fantasy XIV. I'm also very happy that we don't get to play them and probably never...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best MOBA for an MMORPG player?
Every few months, my husband will be reading over my shoulder while I'm writing up news about a MOBA for Massively OP, and he'll...
One Shots: Impish greetings
First contact with native tribes and species in MMOs hardly ever goes the diplomatic route; usually there's a lot of stabbing, fire-setting, plundering, and...
ARK poop as planned suicide, and new dinos will add to the pile
If you learn nothing else today, you'll have this: ARK: Survival Evolved's poop was designed as a suicide measure. Seriously. According to Studio Wildcard...
ARK: Survival of the Fittest brings dinos to e-sports
ARK: Survival Evolved's new spin off, ARK: Survival of the Fittest, is adding eSports to the survival game officially with ranking, matchmaking, rewards, and...
Wisdom of Nym: Odds and ends from Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 3.2
I spent all of the last column talking about Final Fantasy XIV's most recent patch, but boy, there's still more to talk about. Who...
The MOP Up: PlanetSide 2 gets a promotion (February 21, 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...
Ultima Online’s next patch lands this March
Ultima Online latest newsletter, part of a new initiative to insert itself into your inbox, reveals the Broadsword team is hard at work on...
Today’s Tribes: Ascend patch addresses votekicking and vehicles
The Tribes: Ascend servers are offline right now for the game's impending 1.2 patch. Of note, Hi-Rez is implementing a new vehicle queueing system and reducing...
The MOP Up: Titan Siege debuts (January 17, 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...
Wisdom of Nym: A musing on malaise in Final Fantasy XIV
There's no question in my mind that Final Fantasy XIV is still one of my favorite games of all time. It certainly doesn't lack...
Xsyon drops its subscription today, is B2P on Steam
As announced earlier this week, PvP sandbox Xsyon is going buy-to-play on Steam today. "Although I personally still favor the subscription model, it’s clearly turning away...
Tribes: Ascend creative director: ‘We made a lot of mistakes in a lot of different places’
The history of Tribes: Ascend is a strange one. Like the first few titles out of Hi-Rez Studios, it launched to decent reception, had...
Not So Massively: Counter-Strike nerfs all the guns (December 14, 2015)
Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...
ARK: Survival Evolved is coming to Xbox One on December 16
ARK: Survival Evolved is no longer the sole domain of the PC gamer. As of next week, the early access title will be available...
Tribes: Ascend’s first major patch since 2013 lands today
Back in August, Hi-Rez surprised disgruntled Tribes: Ascend fans by announcing that it would be resuming updates after years of maintenance mode. At the time,...
Tribes: Ascend’s next patch aims to ‘spiritually align’ with the franchise
Hi-Rez has posted an open letter to Tribes: Ascend's community on Reddit. The forthcoming Out of the Blue patch is a huge undertaking for...
Penguins and angler fish board ARK as tribal warfare begins
ARK: Survival Evolved has gone to the birds -- and the fish -- in the latest update. On top of a feathers and fur...
Perfect Ten: Why making an Old West MMO would be challenging (but worth it)
The western has been limping along for decades now, occasionally rearing its head to produce a well-loved movie or game smash hit before disappearing once...
Not So Massively: LoL pro Doublelift kicked from e-sports team (November 2, 2015)
Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...
