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During this week's Massively OP Podcast, Justin and I wondered whether any MMORPGs with ongoing in-game costs and timers might disable them because of...

Like clockwork, the end of the month heralds another patch release for Shroud of the Avatar. "Polish" is the keyword for this update, as...

Finding the fun, I'm sorry to say, was a bit on the fleeting side. The problem isn't that Shroud of the Avatar suddenly stopped having...

Every MMO tells a story through the run of its life. A lot of those stories are pretty happy, too. Ultima Online may not...

After all this time, I'm sure some of you forgot that my original E3 2017 interview with Final Fantasy XIV's Naoki Yoshida was supposed to...

Shroud of the Avatar is gearing up for one of its like-clockwork monthly releases: 45 on Thursday. In preparation, this week's newsletter features a...

Let's face it: There isn't really a huge pool of MMORPGs from the 1990s to explore in this column. By now I have done...

One of the things that I believe is utterly vital to writing about games in general and MMOs in particular is finding the fun....

Justin and MJ discuss Secret World, LOTRO, Warframe, Path of Exile, Otherland, WoW, Ultima Online, ARK, Just Survive, EverQuest II, and West of Loathing.

With the broad outline of the game now completed, Shroud of the Avatar's team is turning to placeholder locations and revising them with hand-crafted...

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...

I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that everyone has at some point seen the xkcd called Isolation, but if not, there...

Is there any shame in throwing a birthday party for yourself? Not if you invite everyone and make it hecka fun, we say! Ultima...

Heading into Shroud of the Avatar for the first time was a bit of a strange experience for me, right from the start. Usually,...

One of the fun things about this hobby is that certain tropes repeat themselves constantly. And they're usually weirdly specific tropes, too. Poop quests,...

If you haven't been aware of it, Shroud of the Avatar is currently running yet another extended trial for the remainder of the month. That...

While Ultima Online these days allows players to own only a single house on a production shard per account, that rule will be broken...

I really know pretty much nothing about Ultima. This is only partly my fault. Way back when the Ultima games were a big deal on...

Shroud of the Avatar's equity crowdfunding campaign on SeedInvest has come to a close, with 518 investors having raised just shy of $700,000 in...

Shroud of the Avatar's latest newsletter has plenty of business business business, but the highlights are always the developers' diaries on various locations and...