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Skyforge modifies its ‘indispensable assistant,’ preps a new season of pantheon wars
Memo to Skyforge: It is acceptable to have up to one (1) decimal point in your patch designation. When you call it "Update 0.96.5.25,"...
Pantheon recaps 2017 and looks at harvesting
Are you pinning your hope and hype in Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen for future MMO entertainment? Then you'll definitely not want to miss...
Visionary Realms and Cryptic Studios put out help wanted notices
As always, we here at Massively OP keep our eyes glued to MMO studio job boards to see if any posted positions might give...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2017
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's regular recap of what's going on in crowdfunded MMOs, which we do specifically...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 149: Bringing back the MMO magic
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, WoW, MMO holiday events, ArcheAge, the site awards, EverQuest, Pantheon, Ashes of Creation, RIFT, the Star Citizen lawsuit, and Funcom, with mailbag topics on horror MMOs and "iterating the magic away."
Perfect Ten: 20 upcoming MMOs to watch in 2018
It has become a long-standing tradition as Massively OP and our former site that we like to end the year by creating a list...
Pantheon begins pre-alpha testing for high-end backers
It's a big day for indie MMORPG Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, as it's the first day the gates open to external pre-alpha testers...
The Game Archaeologist: Vanguard Saga of Heroes
The significance of Vanguard's development, release, long-running drama, second chance, and eventual closure should be of great interest not just to game historians but...
Pantheon shows off the process of making a city with its latest video
If you wanted to catch the newest Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen stream live, we're sorry to inform you that you're too late. It...
SMITE’s Passage to Egypt patch rewards PvE players for besting Loki
Patch 4.22 Passage to Egypt is live in SMITE this week. Its headlining feature? A new "nightmare" difficulty mode for the freebie co-op RPG...
Pantheon devs meet up at TwitchCon and make a convert
It took a convention to bring together a development team.
Visionary Realms shared in its November newsletter that many of Pantheon's team members -- some...
Pantheon’s Brad McQuaid on alternate rulesets and multi-server MMOs
Pantheon's Brad McQuaid has another new blog post up - he's on a roll this week - this one on alternate rulesets in MMORPGs...
Pantheon’s social systems aren’t ‘simply bringing back the past’
One of the most interesting things to cover when it comes to Pantheon's development has been its reconciliation of two superficially opposing ideas for...
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen’s pre-alpha will launch by the holidays – but you can’t afford it
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen fans viewing the team demoing the game at TwitchCon this past week were delighted to hear one surprise announcement:...
Take home a Hand of the Gods Medusa key in honor of the console closed beta launch
Hi-Rez's turn-based strategy card game Hand of the Gods -- you might recall it better as SMITE Tactics or even its internal name, Hotgods...
The MOP Up: Speedrunning World of Warcraft (October 15, 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...
Pantheon’s halflings are more like Peter Pan’s Lost Boys than Tolkien’s hobbits
The MOP team tricked me into taking this post. They promised me gnomes. They aren't gnomes at all. They're halflings!
We're talking, of course, about...
Brad McQuaid: MMO devs are ‘making the very, very early foundations of the Holodeck’
Pantheon and MMOs like it are bringing our dream future one step closer (or at least, Lt. Barclay's dream future), Brad McQuaid suggests in a new interview...
Working As Intended: The best and worst of Guild Wars 2 Path of Fire (so far)
I've spent a chunk of the last week moving through the first part of Guild Wars 2's Path of Fire, finishing up the Crystal...
SMITE’s Journey to Asgard, Hand of the Gods’ Hindu Pantheon, and The Caster reality show
It's patch day in SMITE, as I remembered this morning when my husband logged in and saw the new "Belly Ache Ymir" skin. Our...
