Disambiguation:
– Warhammer Online, a defunct MMORPG
– Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade, a PvP MMO
– Warhammer: Wrath of Heroes, a defunct MOBA
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Throne & Liberty’s first castle siege events kick off on November 17 – here’s how they work
If you're one of the 4.5M people who passed through the doors of Throne & Liberty in its first month online, then you might...
One Shots: Come into my lair, sweetling
As we creep toward Halloween, our crack One Shots photojournalists were on the ground in various games grabbing us first-hand demonstrations of the season's...
New World details new artifacts and last-minute PvP tweaks ahead of Aeternum
As we wait for the New World downtime tonight, Amazon has posted another dev blog detailing some of the changes players can expect when...
PlanetSide 2 studio Toadman was hit with some nasty layoffs and studio closures this month
A few weeks back, Daybreak's Enad Global 7 announced that it was laying off a chunk of its subsidiary Toadman Interactive and closing down...
Perfect Ten: 10 Blizzard games that everyone forgets existed
So by this point I think it's fair to say that most of our readers are aware that I love weird rabbit holes that...
NetEase Q2 2024: NetEase’s MMOs propelled a revenue lift, but its stock dipped hard anyway
We haven't often covered NetEase's financial reports, but as the company continues to chuck out (and sunset) new multiplayer games and MMOs, it seems...
Massively Uplifting: Labors of love, generosity, and grief in Warhammer, Terraria, Conan Exiles, Albion, ARK, and more
Labor Day in the United States is an annual celebration of the social and economic achievement of the American workers. The official Department of...
Perfect Ten: The best MMOs from the years before we started counting
You know what bothers me? Our annual awards recap. We always list all of the games that we've given awards to in the past,...
Massively Overthinking: Do the little things make or break an MMORPG?
Earlier this year, I did a video showcasing Star Wars Galaxies Legends player city overhaul, and in it, I admitted to something silly: A...
Warhammer Return of Reckoning celebrates 10 years with a week of freebies and boosts
It's official: The rogue server that is Warhammer Online: Return of Reckoning has now lived twice as long as the original MMORPG, as the...
Warhammer Online’s Return of Reckoning rogue server adds new live event, revamps dungeons
Warhammer Online: Return of Reckoning continues to bolster its reputation of being one of the hardest-working rogue server teams out there by pumping out...
Vague Patch Notes: Why do so many MMOs fail?
We talk a lot about MMOs that fail here on Massively Overpowered. I wrote a whole column about how our standards of success are...
Massively Overthinking: Is tab targeting a problem in MMORPGs?
This past weekend, MMO designer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street lobbed another bomb rather cavalierly into the MMORPG discourse, this one about tab targeting. And maybe...
The Game Archaeologist: Runes of Magic, an MMO that made millions disappear
In more ways than one, the year 2004 was a pivotal one for the MMORPG community. Even as games like City of Heroes, EverQuest...
Echoes of Elysium’s Jeff Hickman talks lore, airship fleets, and Loric’s current development
Loric Games has been on our radar for a few years now, being a studio founded by Mythic Entertainment vets, and last month, the...
Warhammer Return of Reckoning hosts a Return to Warhammer event this weekend
If you've ever wanted to see why people loved Warhammer Online back in the day and somehow haven't ever managed to take a spin...
Warhammer Online Return of Reckoning begins public testing of combat updates and class tweaks
The world of Warhammer Online rogue server Return of Reckoning is a pretty fighty place. That's not really a surprise considering the setting of...
New World talks buffs and nerfs for weapons and siege weapons coming in May
Amazon is back with another episode of Forged in Aeternum this week, this time homing in on New World's combat, although technically, player experience...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that experienced a surprising comeback
It's hard to pass up a really good comeback story. We love it when a beloved something or someone is counted down and out......
Q4 2023: NetEase’s revenues soar as the company invests in the western gaming industry
I am not sure whether it's dawned on MMORPG fans yet, but NetEase is doing a lot more than jousting with Blizzard and milking...
