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Second Galaxy puts a space sim in the palm of your hand
Looking to boldly go where no one has gone before as you boldly walk out your front door? Blackjack Studios announced that it's in...
One Shots: Impish greetings
First contact with native tribes and species in MMOs hardly ever goes the diplomatic route; usually there's a lot of stabbing, fire-setting, plundering, and...
Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Are MMO communities real or fake?
We've come a long way in our discussion of Rachel Kowert and Thorsten Quandt's book The Video Game Debate: Unravelling the Physical, Social, and Psychological...
Perfect Ten: Why MMORPG studios don’t just reboot their games
Last Friday's WildStar news made me sad. I'm sad because there are two games at war within that title. One of them is a...
World of Warcraft: Legion alpha patch revises class and artifact traits
June 30th release or no, World of Warcraft: Legion continues on with its alpha test program. Today Blizzard patched in several adjustments to various...
Rumor: Retailers pegging World of Warcraft: Legion’s release as June 30th
The cycle has begun. Every time a World of Warcraft expansion doesn't have a fixed release date, retailers begin assigning a release date to...
Global Chat: ARK invents new types of griefing
Just when you thought you've seen every type of online griefing known to man, here comes another. In An Age grouses about how ARK:...
Hyperspace Beacon: Should you resub for SWTOR: Disavowed?
Hello, friends. I hope you don’t mind my calling you that. I do respect my readers. Thankfully, most of you are rational and thoughtful....
Hearthstone offers a new hero for World of Warcraft players
Odds are pretty good that if you already play World of Warcraft, you have probably taken Hearthstone for a spin. The game is now...
World of Warcraft outlines the state of PvP in the Legion alpha
The big change coming to World of Warcraft's PvP in Legion is a brand-new honor system, and like anything else that's been changed wholesale...
Working As Intended: The fate of the MMORPG genre
I don't think I'm exaggerating to say that this past weekend was a strange one in the MMORPG community, when gamers across the wide expanse...
Guild Chat: How to tactfully leave a guild
Welcome along to another edition of Guild Chat, my little corner of Massively Overpowered in which I tackle readers' guild-related problems with the help...
The Game Archaeologist: The sad saga of Stargate Worlds
In 1994, a science-fiction movie called Stargate took the idea of alien portals that allowed people to travel instantaneously across the universe and turned it...
World of Warcraft CM Zarhym leaves Blizzard
Long-time World of Warcraft Community Manager Jonathan Brown has left Blizzard, according to a brief notice on his Twitter account. There was no explanation...
WoW Factor: Levels and legends in the Legion alpha
The alpha testing for World of Warcraft's next expansion rolls on, with the vague hope that we might actually have a beta tag by...
New and tweaked class specs arrive in WoW’s latest Legion build
The testing for World of Warcraft's next expansion is almost finished adding new specs for players to try out as the latest Legion test...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO have you revisited lately?
While it might be more exciting to check out a brand-new MMO, I find that it's often easier and requires far less energy to...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 54: Something fishy is afoot
Justin and Bree discuss Black Desert, Path of Exile, Guild Wars 2, No Man's Sky, World of Fishing, and AdventureQuest 3D, with a mailbag question on broken dev promises.
The Daily Grind: Where are all the MMORPG themeparks?
A reader named Rogbarz emailed us toward the end of last year, lamenting the fact that we have a lot of upcoming indie games...
Massively Overthinking: The curse of player-generated MMO content
The influx of new player-generated-content-oriented MMOs might make you think that PGC is on the rise, but if you've been around the genre for...
