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One Shots: The power of pink hair
Wherever there is trouble, Manastu Utakata will be there to fight it with her lightning-fast screenshot button and trademark pink hair. Villains, start running right...
RIFT changes achievement assist policy, promises to ‘bring back quality’ in 2017
Due to a spike in customer service tickets asking for help with RIFT's achievements, Trion Worlds is changing its policy in how it will...
Battle Bards Episode 91: Forest Tales
Take a stroll through the trees and become totally lost in the foliage, drinking in the sounds of the forest with today’s show, as...
ZeniMax partially wins Oculus Rift lawsuit, awarded $500M
It may not be the $4 billion that ZeniMax was hoping for, but the studio still made out well today as a jury awarded it...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best music system?
In Andrew's retrospective of Asheron's Call 2 last week, he mentioned that the game had a music system, something I'd long since forgotten, if...
RIFT 4.1: Forged in Flame is coming in March
The first major post-Starfall Prophecy content drop for RIFT is coming in just a month. This past weekend, the team announced that Patch 4.1:...
MMORPG developers, GDC organizers speak out against US ‘Muslim ban’
You might want to keep politics out of gaming, but politics has a way of forcing itself in the door no matter what.
Multiple MMO developers and...
The MOP Up: Players petition to ‘revive’ Ultima Online (January 29, 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 Game Archaeologist: Nexus: The Kingdom of the Winds
I confess that I have a particular fascination for MMOs that came into existence in the 1990s. It's not only the fact that I...
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...
ArcheAge invites your guild on an adventure this week
This week's ArcheAge patch has kicked off a string of events to keep you occupied well into February. To start with, the fantasy MMO has whipped...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 101: Marvelous heroes
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, Marvel Heroes, Trove, Elder Scrolls Online, WoW, Wizards of the Coast, and Path of Exile, with mailbag questions on Standing Stone/Daybreak and MOP's allies.
Get a primer on RIFT’s legendary abilities
When it comes to character development, perhaps the biggest additions in RIFT: Starfall Prophecy were legendary abilities. Instead of adding new skills, RIFT gave high-level...
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...
One Shots: Healin’ skellies in Shards Online
When the NDA is away, the cats will play -- and take screenshots! Bless our dear community for documenting upcoming MMOs as they venture...
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...
RIFT launches fortress sieges and looking for raid tool
RIFT is stepping up its game -- its raid game, that is.
Yesterday, Trion Worlds released a "hotfix" that in actuality contained two major pieces...
Global Chat: Elder Scrolls Online renaissance
As I peruse a hundred or so community blog posts every day, it's fascinating to me to see what games the MMO blogosphere as...
Atlas Reactor launches its fully free-to-play patch with a new freelancer
No more half-measures of being free-to-play for Atlas Reactor; with the game's most recent patch, the title is entirely free-to-play. Not just mostly free-to-play...
The MOP Up: Black Desert loyalty rewards (January 15, 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...
