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Perfect Ten: The biggest MMO stories of 2017
One thing you can say for the MMO industry: It never ceases to surprise all of us. No matter what predictions we may make...
Destiny 2 stream is canceled in the wake of player rage as a free trial surfaces
So, let's recap the Destiny 2 saga. First, there was a leveling scaling problem wherein players discovered that the game was now slowing leveling...
Destiny 2 doubles level XP following last week’s botched event
Remember how Bungie bungled Destiny 2's XP scaling event and had to disable the whole thing after players found that the game was throttling...
The MOP Up: League of Legends doesn’t want to grow up (November 26, 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...
Destiny 2 deactivates scaling system after players discover XP throttling
Internet speeds aren't the only things that are in danger of being throttled, as Destiny 2 players learned this past week. Apparently Bungie was...
Massively Overthinking: What are you grateful for in the MMORPG genre?
I've been keeping a gratitude journal for the first time in my life this month, and it turns out that it's freaking hard. Why?...
Watch Destiny 2’s Curse of Osiris dev stream here at 2 p.m. EST
Some MMO studios waste entire Fridays streaming about their upcoming patches, but not Bungie: Bungie's wasting two whole days on Destiny 2's Curse of...
For Science! Researchers find link between fluid intelligence and elite MOBA play
In a new paper released last week, University of York researchers sought to examine whether research that strategy gaming (like chess and arcade games)...
One Shots: Gassy and bloated
I do think that we, as a culture, have become disturbingly obsessed with selfies, but I will always make an exception for anyone who...
Here’s the full list of Trion Worlds’ Black Friday deals
As you plan your Black Friday shopping strategy (ours: sleeping in and lazily shopping on Amazon Prime), Trion Worlds wants to help out by...
Elite: Dangerous player is reaching out to speak with the game’s inscrutable aliens
Remember that Star Trek: The Next Generation episode where the crew spent the entire episode tracking down and struggling to communicate with a destructive...
Overwatch kicks off a free play weekend across all platforms
Destiny 2 who? Overwatch is aiming to lure in as many of Blizzard's players as possible with another free weekend. The best part? It's...
Sea of Thieves trailer dares you to ‘be more pirate’
All other studios, it's time to pack it in: Sea of Thieves has won the Trailer Olympics, at least for 2017.
In Rare's newest video,...
Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris brings an infinite forest, Mercury, and new raid lairs
Are you tired of MMOs providing you with bland and predictable finite forests? Thank goodness that Destiny 2 is here to show other MMOs...
Battle Bards Episode 109: Club Penguin
When you’ve got a club full of penguins overseen by the Mouse House itself, you know things are going to get both wacky and...
Bungie posts Destiny 2 Curse of Osiris trailer, kicks off expansion stream
MMO studio streams are so common that we seldom report on them until after the fact and then only if they've actually revealed something...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 144: Harry Potter and the Deathly ARG
Justin and Bree talk Guild Wars 2 mounts, the Harry Potter ARG, SWTOR's merge, WoW, LOTRO, Pocket Legends Adventures, Android games, and Bluehole's Ascent: Infinite Realm, with mailbag questions on GW2 marketing, visual effect shenanigans, and MMOs as escapism.
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating on Final Fantasy XIV’s future job from the past of the series
Speculating is fun, as I've opined in the past. We're a while away from the next Final Fantasy XIV expansion, obviously, but one of...
The MOP Up: EVE Online eases you into its universe (November 12, 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...
Destiny 2 upgrades to new consoles, plans clan XP event
With Curse of Osiris and season two on the way for Destiny 2, the team at Bungie has some time to fill with events...
