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WRUP: Parts may fall off edition
Congratulations on your new vehicle! You've made an excellent choice, because now we can feed our families. This money will be a blessing to...
WRUP: This ham is your ham edition
Hello, reader. Hello, and good morning. Or should I say... good ham? That sounded clever before I typed it out. Look, the point is...
WRUP: Point of order edition
This installment of What Are You Playing will now come to order. We'd like to begin with a few points of order, starting with...
WRUP: New comment system fun fact edition
So we have a new comment system! Yes, really. There's a little FAQ about it explaining everything you could want to know, but what...
WRUP: Before we’re edited edition
You read our articles every day. Most days, anyway. Why don't you read our articles every day? Are we just some fling to you? Ahem....
One Shots: Healin’ skellies in Shards Online
When the NDA is away, the cats will play -- and take screenshots! Bless our dear community for documenting upcoming MMOs as they venture...
WRUP: Jurassic Park is a pretty bad movie edition
It's time for us to just admit this as a species: Jurassic Park is not a good movie. I know, you have fond memories...
WRUP: Card trick 74 edition
Today's card trick is known as the Ponzetti Reversal. It's called this chiefly because no one ever pays too much attention to card tricks which...
One Shots: The Reaper comes for all MMOs
In light of this past week's sad Landmark news, it's perhaps too on-the-nose that I asked for players to send in pictures of defunct...
WRUP: Year in preview edition
Well, here we are, a new year. This one has a low bar to clear and it's already not doing a great job. I'd...
WRUP: The sunset edition
At the worst times in my life, I would often watch the sunset. Sunsets are comforting to me. Every sunset you see reminds you...
WRUP: Gifts for some edition
It's that time of year once again, when the Massively Overpowered staff loads into a sleigh and prepares to bring presents to all of...
WRUP: Come for the main storyline, but stay for the food edition
Welcome, traveler, to Hoodle's Watch! It's a town named after some guy, presumably named Hoodle. Anyhow, I'd ask you why you're here, but I...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG stories of the year
Earlier this week, we posted our award for the biggest MMORPG story of the year -- the one we thought had the biggest impact...
WRUP: Could a werewolf offer you savings like this edition
Pathetic mortal creatures with your moist flesh and sloughing skin! It is I, "Crazy" Kak-asha, of Kak-asha's Discount Goods Emporium, the store you continue...
WRUP: The hills are alive with something edition
So I really had thought that the hills were alive with the sound of music up until a couple of days ago. I mean,...
WRUP: Testament from the helmsman of a doomed ship edition
If you are reading this, then it is as an epigraph. Had I survived to shore, I would have destroyed it. Instead, you are...
WRUP: I know what I’m doing edition
Here, let me take over. Trust me, I know what I'm doing. Here, what I'm doing right now is grotesquely overstating my competence at...
WRUP: Excerpt from my NaNoWriMo novel ‘Claude Mayonnaise, Serial Laundry Defiler’ edition
The city was a dark place, dark like the attitude I put forth in hopes of impressing people. The name's Claude Mayonnaise, because my...
WRUP: How to escape from any field edition
So you've been abandoned in the middle of a field in the middle of nowhere and you're reading this guide to help you escape....