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The Stream Team: A sneak peek at Defiance 2050’s closed beta
Whether or not you were a fan of Defiance, you might be interested in seeing what Defiance 2050 is about. Massively OP's MJ gets...
RIFT Prime temporarily disables its Trove of Mounts with fake inventory alarms
Can we agree that MMO players, collectively, get very excited about having new mounts? It seems like a statement that's almost a tautology at...
RIFT Prime reintroduces 10-player slivers and LFR
The sliver-spooned mouths of RIFT Prime subscribers are being filled with all manner of endgame challenges this week. With the first step forward of...
The Daily Grind: What was the most disappointing MMO expansion of all time?
Best and worst, top and bottom: It's fun to discuss video game in absolute extremes (at times). And I'll bet that a lot of...
ArcheAge creator Jake Song talks about his return to the game
ArcheAge's recent update is called Legends Return, a title that works on a couple of levels when you consider that the game's creator, Jake...
Defiance 2050 blasts its way into closed beta this weekend
Defiance 2050's closed beta - for PC, anyway, since the console version's beta testing has been delayed - is set to launch here not...
RIFT progression server activates its first two raids
Yesterday RIFT's progression server took a step forward, pushing the line of content forward with some old endgame activities.
Two 10-player raids, Drowned Halls and...
Defiance 2050 delays its console closed beta event, but the PC event will go on as planned
A couple of weeks ago, Trion announced that it was prepping a big closed beta test for Defiance 2050 across all platforms - this...
The MOP Up: Seal Online embraces a cartoony spirit (April 15, 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...
Global Chat: Giving Project Gorgon a try
With Project Gorgon now out on Steam early access, many first-time visitors to this strange game are feeling out the world and its systems....
The Game Archaeologist: Lineage
If we judged MMOs by their numbers alone -- and I'm not suggesting we do so -- then the original Lineage would be the...
RIFT: Three more ‘content milestones’ in 2018, progression server’s lifespan extended
Trion Worlds is stepping up its communication game this week, first with a post on the imminent plans for RIFT's progression server and then...
Massively Overthinking: The best of PAX East and GDC in 2018
The past couple of weeks has been wild as we dispatched writers to GDC in San Francisco and PAX East in Boston to gather...
The Daily Grind: Do you have a ‘guilty pleasure’ MMO?
As comments and tweets and nastygrams in my inbox have repeatedly demonstrated over the years, it doesn't matter whether you've put in years of...
Snag your very own Tinker Bell in Black Desert today
Fairy companions are live in Black Desert today! Players so inclined can pick up their very own Fairy Laila through the Fairy Queen Theiah...
The 2015 ArcheAge class action lawsuit continues, snarled in arbitration appeals
Waaaay back in 2015, a group of ArcheAge players filed a lawsuit against Trion Worlds over the Patron perk mess. Veteran MMO players will...
Perfect Ten: Why trend-chasing doesn’t work at all for online games
Video games have always been a remarkably insular field; that's the nature of development. Someone produces Super Mario Bros, and a few years later...
RIFT Prime lays out progression server plans
The path ahead for RIFT's thriving new progression server has been revealed, as Trion Worlds finally laid out plans for what's to come on...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 165: Step into the Morninglight
Justin and MJ discuss Secret World Legends, DDO, WoW, Conan Exiles, RIFT, LOTRO, TERA, Ultima Online, ArcheAge, and Star Trek Online, with mailbag questions on combat combos and recapturing former players.
Trion declares RIFT Prime a ‘massive success’ with ‘thousands’ of subbing players
You'd hardly expect an MMO company to send along a press release declaring its game a failure, right? Indeed, Trion's PR this morning argues...
