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CCP Games ceases VR development, closes two studios – no negative impact on EVE Online

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Icelandic business website mbl.is has just reported that EVE Online developer CCP Games is planning to close two of its offices and cease all...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds faces potential censorship in China

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GIbiz has picked up a Bloomberg piece that suggests China may be poised to crack down on PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. China's Audio-Video and Digital Publishing Association...
So... I mean, you were playing that new expansion, right? Isn't that out today?

Former Blizzard executive Rob Pardo thinks we’re a long way off from VR MMOs

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Rob Pardo is no longer with Blizzard, but he can still count World of Warcraft's success as a big feather in his cap. So...

Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s procedural cities, Camelot Unchained’s beta tester rewards (October 28, 2017)

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Ever wanted to walk around on Coruscant? Star Citizen may be granting your wish, or at least a solid approximation. During this weekend's CitizenCon,...
Probably the smart move.

Betawatch: The week the betas died (October 27, 2017)

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This week should serve as a helpful reminder that just because a game is in testing does not mean that it's actually primed for...

War Thunder turns five, counts 20M players, and begins development for Xbox One

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Gaijin announced this morning that War Thunder is rolling out to Xbox One and the X too, thanks to the constant deluge of requests...
You made it sing, all right.

The US government is considering DMCA exceptions for archived online games after all

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Back in 2015, an exception was made to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to allow for archival of aging video games that were otherwise...
Broken

Amazon confirms that Breakaway is on hiatus

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Is Breakaway dead? We don't know for sure, but the rumors started flying yesterday, and the latest official word certainly reads like a death...

Survival sandbox ROKH got bogged down in a ‘legal dispute,’ but it’s been resolved

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It's been a few weeks since ROKH's last developer update, but there's a reason for that: a legal dispute. "Two teams were investigating the source...

MMO lockboxes: Market impact, regulation, and the letter of the law

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GIbiz posted an article earlier this week peppered with quotes from Mat Piscatella, an NPD US games market analyst who suggests that the recent...
See, this is why no one likes you. It's because of this.

Cliffy B on LawBreakers: ‘As far as I’m concerned, [the press] can fuck off’

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Here at Massively Overpowered, we generally try to avoid cursing, but there really are no two ways to put the Cliff Bleszinski quote from...

Amazon may have already canceled Breakaway

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Kotaku is reporting that Amazon has "basically canceled" Breakaway, with two sources confirming that the game is over - on "indefinite hiatus," one said,...

Digital Extremes halts development on The Amazing Eternals

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Digital Extremes announced this morning that it's halting development on The Amazing Eternals. "After many discussions internally on the state of The Amazing Eternals, we...

Bungie now says it’s unbanning Destiny 2 players ‘banned in error’

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Remember how yesterday Destiny 2's community was all freaked out about account bans they believed were being caused by use of overlays from programs...

SuperData declares Destiny 2 the ‘fastest selling digital console game in history’

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SuperData's September 2017 video gaming market global revenue analysis should make Bungie happy, whether or not it was bleeding players ahead of the Destiny 2...

Warframe doubled its concurrency record with Plains of Eidolon to become second top-played F2P on Steam

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Four year-old Warframe's done it again: set a new concurrency record, and not even for the first time, as it busted past its concurrency...

Bungie denies Destiny 2 community claims that third-party apps are triggering PC permabans [Updated]

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We've updated with Bungie's latest statement at the end of this post. It's a classic case of he said, she said: the MMO edition. Following yesterday's...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 141: Mouse invasions and elf butts

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Justin and Bree discuss MMORPG Halloween, Trove, World of Warcraft, EverQuest II, DDO, Life is Feudal, Bless, Destiny 2, and Project Gorgon, with a mailbag question on how and whether we should all be supporting struggling MMOs.

Twitch is now dispensing Halloween lockboxes in exchange for donations to streamers

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Hey, since it's absurdity week, let's just roll with it: Twitch is getting in on the lockox/lootcrate/gamblebox action, making every streamer and channel party...

MMO blogger dives into the theoretical math behind lockboxes

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MMO blogger Serrenity, whom many of you will recognize from his clever comments here on MOP too, has a compelling blog post on his...

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