Major studio known to MMO fans primarily for The Crew and The Division.
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Whatever happened to PlanetSide 2, A Tale in the Desert, and Istaria?
Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, "What ever happened to that game?" With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it's surprisingly...
Battle Bards Episode 101: Ragnarok Online
As the Battle Bards cruise into their second hundred episodes, it’s time to cover a very long-lived fantasy MMO from 2002, Ragnarok Online. The...
Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet hires former Ubisoft Creative Director Jason VandenBerghe
Gamasutra is reporting this afternoon that Guild Wars 2 studio ArenaNet has picked up former Ubisoft Montreal Creative Director Jason VandenBerghe. His new title...
The Stream Team: Lavastorm Heritage Quests in EverQuest II
Massively OP's MJ has been slowly streaming through all of EverQuest II's Heritage Quests (slowly, because there are more than you can shake an...
E3 2017: Hands-on with Ubisoft’s The Crew 2
I'm a kart racer. Oh sure, I enjoyed Cruisin' USA and San Fransisco Rush as a kid, and of course I played Gran Turismo a little, but...
Skull and Bones will boast a single-player campaign in addition to multiplayer battles
Pirates are, like, so so hot right now. At least if you look at the multiplayer gaming space, which now has two promising titles...
E3 2017: Hands-on with Ubisoft’s Skull and Bones
I like naval combat in my MMOs. That's my weakness. Vehicle combat is great, but for some reason, I especially like boats. When I...
Check out The Crew 2’s gameplay in action
So what's it going to be like playing The Crew 2? If you said "a lot like playing The Crew," well... all right, you're...
Massively Overthinking: The best MMOs and multiplayers of E3 2017
E3 is drawing to a close, with its reveals over and done with -- all that's left is processing our interviews and hands-on pieces....
E3 2017: Ubisoft officially reveals The Crew 2
Ubisoft is undoubtedly pleased with the sales and performance of The Crew because as previously teased, the developer has invested in a full-fledged sequel that's even...
E3 2017: Ubisoft announces Skull and Bones, a multiplayer pirate sandbox
Sea of Thieves, you have a new challenger in the realm of MMOsy pirate games: Ubisoft just announced Skull and Bones at E3. The...
The Game Archaeologist: Phantasy Star Online
The Dreamcast was a brief but shining aberration in the gaming world. Coming along years after Sega had fallen out of its position as...
Secret World Legends offers up ‘deep dive’ on weapons
After a week or so of teasing the different weapon specialties on Twitter for Secret World Legends, the crew at Funcom has finally released...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs that died too soon
Your favorite game is going to die. I wrote about that. Some games are never even going to get to launching in the first...
Ashes of Creation hires five new team members, shows off snowy environments
As Ashes of Creation takes aim at the $3M line for its Kickstarter campaign, Intrepid Studios announced that it has made several significant hires...
Global Chat: Freaking out over Destiny 2
Ever since the Destiny 2 reveal, everyone seems to be freaking out about this follow-up MMO shooter. Will it be the new hotness or...
The Game Archaeologist: How Sceptre of Goth shaped the MMO industry
When it comes to text-based MMOs created in the '80s, '90s, and 2000s, the sheer number of them would blot out the sky. There...
Ubisoft: The Crew has 12M players, The Crew 2 is on the way
During its quarterly investor call today, Ubisoft announced that its working on a sequel to racing MMO The Crew. "In 2017-18 we will see the...
The MOP Up: SMITE’s console mea culpa (May 7, 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...
PSA: The Division is free to try this weekend on PC
The Division (or what we called "The Divs" when I was a kid roaming the suburban streets of Ohio, looking for my next hit of...
