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Star Citizen reschedules its Assault on Stanton server event to next year

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Earlier in the week there was word from CIG that Star Citizen was ready to give its new alpha 3.12 dynamic event system a...

The Daily Grind: What MMO abilities make you feel like a rock star?

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I'll admit that there's a shade of vanity that prompts me to bust out my best and most noticeable skills whenever I'm in an...
Blueprint'd!

Dual Universe introduces the full rundown on its detailed blueprint DRM systems

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One of the goals of the open creative structure in Dual Universe is to allow designers to sell their designs to other players. But how...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 302: Your MMO mail, our MMO opinions

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Justin and Bree tackle an all-mailbag show, with topics including gaming music and writing mainstream awards, MMO exploration, crafting and EVE Online, vanilla Guild Wars 2, the "one MMO" gamer, MMOs that make you want to play other MMOs, WoW transmog, Raph Koster's brain, and Shadowbane.

MassivelyOP’s 2020 Golden Yachties: Best worst MMO bug

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MassivelyOP’s not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for best worst MMO bug. (If you’re wondering what the heck a Golden Yachtie is,...
Have some stuff.

Blizzard offers a plethora of game discounts with its holiday sale this year

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We don't really like advertising sales consistently here on Massively Overpowered because we already have actual advertising on the site and that costs money....

Grab a MU Online or C9 gift bundle in Webzen’s Holiday 2020 giveaway

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Webzen is putting a festive hat on 2020 and celebrating the winter holidays with events across its catalogue of MMOs: MU Online and Continent of...

Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: MMO Studio of the Year

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MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for MMO Studio of the Year, which was awarded to Grinding Gear Games last...
Cool guys don't look at explosions.

Defiance yanks away server compensation ‘due to abuse’

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Be warned: The Grinch has been spotted skulking around Defiance this week. Just days after Gamigo announced that it would be handing out compensation packages...
Sexoskeleton.

Skyforge shows off new mechanical exoskeletons for its deities

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The last update of the year for Skyforge arrives today, and it brings with it the new exoskeleton... except it should more accurately be called...

The Daily Grind: What MMO has the brightest future right now heading into 2021?

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A Massively Overthinking roundtable about MMOs with bright future that we did a few years ago was so popular that we decided to make...

MassivelyOP’s 2020 Golden Yachties: Most bizarre thing in an MMO this year

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MassivelyOP's not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards begin today, now affectionately named the Golden Yachties in honor of that dumb meme about how games bloggers are sailing...

Star Citizen is set to begin its first server-wide dynamic event this week

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Star Citizen's recently released alpha 3.12 is subtitled Assault on Stanton, but most of the immediately playable features involved things like refinery decks and...
Teamwork.

Wisdom of Nym: Impressions of Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 5.4 story

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It'd be wrong to say that this patch is our first patch back on the Source in Final Fantasy XIV. We've been splitting our...

Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: MMO Story of the Year

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MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for MMO Story of the Year, which was awarded to the Blizzard boycotts last...

RuneScape looks back at 2020 and ahead to 2021 as the game is in ‘a significant state of growth’

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According to an address from Mod Warden, the past year in RuneScape has been a very good one indeed in spite of the real-world...
Really studying the heck out of a skull.

World of Warcraft: Classic is surveying players about rolling out The Burning Crusade

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The rumors about The Burning Crusade coming to World of Warcraft: Classic were at once rather obvious and also seem all but certain at this point....

Guild Wars 2 confirms its next Icebrood Saga chapter title and hides interesting Cantha tidbits

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ArenaNet is going to be taking a little holiday break but not before it talks up a variety of future goodies for Guild Wars...
Keanu, why.

Cyberpunk 2077 discovers a new game-ending save bug and investors consider a class-action suit

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If you like gaming trainwrecks, Cyberpunk 2077 is your gift this year, and it's one that keeps on giving. While most of the game's bugs...
Deception!

The Daily Grind: What was the worst MMO industry trend of 2020?

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As is tradition around MOP, we always follow up our award for best gaming trend with a discussion of the worst trend too because...

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