virtual world
Catching up with Shroud of the Avatar’s Starr Long
As Kickstarter projects successfully funded via the power of nostalgia have proven, gamer loyalty can burn strong even decades after experiencing titles that make...
Massively Overthinking: When IPs are wasted on mediocre MMOs
This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter donor Aldranis, whose query neatly dovetails with the IP-related question we answered on the...
Working As Intended: Sex, love, and MMOs
In the ongoing, neverending sandbox-vs.-themepark MMO debate, the folks on the side of sandboxes want one thing: more. Actually they want a lot more. They want...
Bethesda touts Elder Scrolls Online as ‘a full-fledged virtual world’
Are you on the fence about checking out The Elder Scrolls Online? If so, a new post on the official Bethesda blog might be...
Ultraviolence, virtual worlds, and why I hate myself for loving GTA Online
OK, maybe that title is overly dramatic. Still, I feel guilty for liking Grand Theft Auto Online. I've touched on this before, as have...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Expanding into Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns
When Guild Wars 2's expansion was announced, most of the questions on our lips were permutations of "What's the new level cap?" and "What...
Massively Overthinking: The return of ‘consequences’ to MMOs
This week's Massively Overthinking topic comes to us from Kickstarter donor Antonia "Toni" Phillips aka ToniLyran, who's hit on a sore point with our writers, it...
Mo’s Egg Hunt: Deals for May 7, 2015
It's time for another exciting roundup of Newegg's best deals here on Massively Overpowered. These deals are available through the links provided below. Just remember they're...
Mo’s Egg Hunt: Deals for May 6, 2015
It's time for another exciting roundup of Newegg's best deals here on Massively Overpowered. These deals are available through the links provided below. However, it's...
GTA Online: All the open world feels, none of the MMO grind
Any minute now I'm going to log out of Grand Theft Auto Online so I can finish this not-a-review. Seriously, I've played this game...
Massively Overthinking: The pure PvE ‘niche’ of MMORPGs
This week's Massively Overthinking question is posed by Kickstarter donor Winterskorn, who wants to talk about something getting less and less love in MMORPGs lately: PvE.
"There...
MMO Mechanics: How strong communities are barriers-to-exit
MMOs occupy a unique position in our game libraries because they include a wide range of clever mechanics that keep us logging in day...
Meet the MMO that lives in Second Life
Welcome to MMOception: an MMO within an MMOÂ (or if you want to get technical, an MMO within a "virtual world"),
By using scripting and the...
Habbo arrives on Android devices
Habbo is probably not a game that occupies a big chunk of your mental real estate, due in no small part to the fact...
Leaderboard: Have you talked someone out of buying a game you like?
So here's something that doesn't happen very often: I talked a friend out of buying Star Citizen's Vanguard LTI concept. In the past I've...
Lost Continent: ArcheAge’s dolphingate was much ado about nothing
I'd like to play devil's advocate about this whole ArcheAge dolphingate thing. First, though, let me start with a disclaimer. If you've read this...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Shifting perspectives in Guild Wars 2
Since my last edition of Flameseeker Chronicles, ArenaNet has released the eagerly anticipated camera patch, and I have been squealing with delight while enjoying...
Revival says it will feature ‘graphic sex’
Those of you with sex on the brain may find the latest Revival dev post enlightening. Before we get to the bumping and grinding,...
Perfect Ten: Combat-free MMOs
If there's one thing that always, always goes with MMOs, it's combat. I mean, we can't be a hero without killing something, right? We...
