Studio known to MMO players for games like RIFT, Defiance, Trove, and Devilian.
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RIFT will soon let you buy any of its 8,100 artifacts for credits
Whether you call them shinies or sparklies, artifacts are a fun little diversion in RIFT that can pay off with special toys, mounts, and...
Global Chat: Saying farewell to City of Steam
No doubt by now you have heard that the indie steampunk City of Steam has been shuttered. And while its demise won't change the...
Hellbug event makes strange bedfellows of Trove and Defiance
One thing that's quite apparent by now is that Trion Worlds adores its crossover promotions. It's happening again, as Defiance's hellbugs are breaching the...
RIFT talks about its new souls, one might be the Maelstrom
The RIFT community is certainly abuzz about all of the big changes and plans for the game in 2016, not the least of which...
Trove’s new character power ranking system rolls out today
What level is your favorite character class in Trove? There are rather more answers to that question than you might think. Sure, there's the...
RIFT is testing multicore processing support
Technology is vital to every single MMO that we play and is also almost completely invisible. When a game is running well, you don't...
The MOP Up: RuneScape’s TCG wraps up closed beta (February 7, 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...
One Shots: On a highway to Hell
The Secret World has needed awesome mounts since, oh, day one, and it does my heart good to see players rumble about on hogs,...
ArcheAge’s costumes will soon come with stats and levels
Fashion or power: Who says you can't have both? Not ArcheAge, that's for sure, because the game is getting ready to introduce costumes with...
Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Social outcomes and online gamers
Of all the chapters in Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt's book The Video Game Debate: Unravelling the Physical, Social, and Psychological Effects of Video...
Ask Mo: Re-reviewing MMORPGs and birthday shenanigans
Mo's been collecting letters to the editor for me to address in Ask Mo for the past month or two, and this one from...
RIFT’s subscription package improves as F2P gets a little worse
In all of the hubbub surrounding Trion World's changes to the business model of RIFT, it might've been easy to overlook the fact that...
Massively Overthinking: Old MMORPGs, disco, and pop culture phenomena
A reader named Rob provides this week's Massively Overthinking topic. It's a really good one!
"Why isn't playing an old MMO from a previous decade...
More souls and massive tech improvements head to RIFT this year
As RIFT approaches its fifth birthday this spring, Executive Producer Chris Junior revealed many exciting changes and improvements that are coming to the game.
The fun...
Devilian adding Tempest class, raising level cap
Trion Worlds' OARPG Devilian has only been out for a short while now, but the game is already preparing to grow in more than...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 49: Marvel Heroes 2016 interview
Justin and Bree are joined by Marvel Heroes devs discuss Marvel Heroes 2016. We also talk The Repopulation's engine switch, The Division's beta, and business model shenanigans in RIFT, Trove, SWTOR, and The Secret World.
Trove now allows you to make a toilet that lets you fly
Do you see the people flying in the header image? Have you thought that you want to be able to do that in Trove,...
H1Z1 announces ‘crate bundles’ for the cash shop
Last week, Daybreak announced a monetization change for zombie survival box H1Z1 that almost slipped under our radar: The studio is adding bundles of...
Trove makes major business model adjustments
RIFT isn't the only game under Trion Worlds' umbrella that's reevaluating and adjusting its business model to become more profitable. Yesterday, the Trove team...
RIFT addresses paywall controversy, explains F2P finances
The recent decision by Trion Worlds to set up what many see as a gear-related paywall in RIFT certainly has cause quite the discussion...
