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MMORPG developers, GDC organizers speak out against US ‘Muslim ban’
You might want to keep politics out of gaming, but politics has a way of forcing itself in the door no matter what.
Multiple MMO developers and...
The MOP Up: Players petition to ‘revive’ Ultima Online (January 29, 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...
Massively Overthinking: Death and dying in MMORPGs
In March of last year, MOP's Justin wrote a detailed guide to the most common death penalties in MMORPGs. Last September, Gamasutra pulled seven...
EverQuesting: Scoring our EverQuest franchise 2016 predictions
January 14th, 2016. On that date, I said we'd get to look back in a year and see just how many of my EverQuesting...
The Stream Team: Looking at Landmark’s builds
It's down to Landmark's last month, and Massively OP's MJ wants to personally take in as many of the great player-made creations as she...
Crowfall details the mechanics of death, resurrection, and swapping characters
You will die while playing Crowfall. That's pretty much inevitable. But you will also never die in Crowfall, because you are not your character;...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 101: Marvelous heroes
Justin and Bree discuss LOTRO, Marvel Heroes, Trove, Elder Scrolls Online, WoW, Wizards of the Coast, and Path of Exile, with mailbag questions on Standing Stone/Daybreak and MOP's allies.
The MOP Up: No Man’s Sky gets shielded (January 22, 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...
A peek at Camelot Unchained’s trees, forests, and C.U.B.E.
"Today's update might be a little lighter on the tech side," Mark Jacobs tells Camelot Unchained backers in his latest update, "but we have...
EverQuest senior game designer Josh Augustine moves over to World of Warcraft
Former PC Games editor and EverQuest senior game designer Josh Augustine announced yesterday that he's made a move to a position on a different MMORPG:...
Stitch together your own playable bodies in Crowfall
Do you have any qualms about playing with dead things in video games? How about playing a dead thing itself? Crowfall will offer both...
Global Chat: Elder Scrolls Online renaissance
As I peruse a hundred or so community blog posts every day, it's fascinating to me to see what games the MMO blogosphere as...
Leaderboard: Did you participate in Crowfall’s equity crowdfunding raise?
Finishing up today is Crowfall's Indiegogo-based equity crowdfunding campaign, one of the first games and MMORPGs to take advantage of new 2016 laws that...
EverQuesting: The loss of Landmark
Daybreak did it again. Boy, that phrase has come to mean a great many different things over the years. However, in this case it...
Here’s how Crowfall is tweaking resource harvesting for Big World
Crowfall Design Lead Thomas "Blixtev" Blair has a new dev blog out this afternoon on the resource harvesting slice of the big world testing going...
Recapping Crowfall’s equity investment Q&A
Early this afternoon, ArtCraft Entertainment's J. Todd Coleman and Gordon Walton answered investor questions about Crowfall's equity crowdfunding venture, which closes out on Monday....
Massively OP Podcast Episode 99: Landmark goes into the dark
Justin and Bree discuss Landmark, Trove, Asheron's Call, WoW, FFXIV, WildStar, Hi-Rez, and Ashes of Creation before dipping into the mailbag to speculate on Daybreak's future.
MMOs Chronicles of Elyria, Dual Universe, and AQ3D were among top crowdfunded games of 2016
Fig, the gaming crowdfunding platform that surged in popularity in 2016 thanks to successful Wasteland 3 and Psychonauts 2 campaigns, has released a list of...
Global Chat Extra: In remembrance of Landmark
Obviously, the reverberations of the news of Landmark's closure continue to be seen across the MMO community, including in our own comments sections. The...
Leaderboard: Which Daybreak MMO is most vulnerable in 2017?
In February 2015, following the SOE/Daybreak transition and ensuing mass layoffs, we polled our readers on the security of the rest of the studio's games....
