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With all the talk and testing swirling about World of Warcraft Classic this past week, the full nostalgia gates have reopened and a flood...

Justin and Bree discuss WoW Classic, City of Heroes, Blade and Soul, Star Trek Online, Square Enix, and Dungeon and Dragons Online, with mailbag topics on how WoW Classic fits into the MMO genre and getting back into City of Heroes.

It is probably important to realize that no matter how carefully Blizzard developers recreate the early days of World of Warcraft for WoW Classic,...

Computers get faster and better with time. Graphics that require a decent GPU in 2011 can be displayed at much higher resolution in 2019...

The simplest analogy I can think of for World of Warcraft: Classic is being served a breakfast of toasted plain white bread with a...

So now we have a date at the end of August for World of Warcraft: Classic. That's actually a lot later than I had expected, but...

Since the formal announcement this week that WoW Classic is launching in August, I've seen multiple mainstream games journos opine that, well, you think...

Here's the genesis of this particular article: I saw speculation over on Blizzard Watch that we were about a year too early for a World...

My very first memory of Dantooine was surprisingly its first real appearance in a video game at all. Star Wars Galaxies imagined Dantooine as...

In the quest to bring back as close to an authentic vanilla era experience as possible, Blizzard is returning a system that players probably...

Here at Massively Overpowered, we're always doing our best to make use of our staff's particular talents. We make sure to have Justin saying...

Hey! Hey you! Yeah, you the I'm-so-bored-with-all-of-these-MMOs gamer! You've been grousing about for years how MMOs never take risks, never innovate, and are merely...

As a longtime Star Wars fan and former Star Wars Galaxies player, I've known there were plenty of emulators out there ripe for playing...

Ah, Alterac Valley. That battleground and I spent thousands of hours together back in the early days of World of Warcraft. I remember its...

Early access is officially underway for The Division 2 for preorder buyers ahead of the formal launch this weekend. If you're in, you're already...

Back in February, the MMORPG subreddit offered up yet another fun thread: User Friendly_Fire told the MMO community that what it really wants is...

We talk a lot about progression servers and vanilla servers, branches of MMOs that use different rulesets, either new or old - we even...

Blogger and MOP reader Serrenity recently pointed us to a Kotaku article on the subject of video game nostalgia. Author Alyse Knorr maintains that...

I'm going to attempt to connect apples and oranges here. In my final days with Elite Dangerous for CMA, I have actually managed to...

Let's pretend for a moment that the reason Blizzard appears to be dropping the ball with World of Warcraft right now is that it's...