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DC Universe Online introduces a progressive tax to correct money exploitation

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So here's the bad news, DC Universe Online fans - the game got hit with a pretty nasty exploit that allowed players to flood the...

Ashes of Creation addresses Siege Mode, Node dev, and 5000-bot test battles

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Yesterday saw another Ashes of Creation livestream with several devs offering a general rundown of progress. The broadcast touched on a pretty wide swath...

The Snowball Festival returns to ArcheAge – and now to ArcheAge Unchained too

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Is winter the turning point for ArcheAge and ArcheAge Unchained? We'd surely like to think so. Today's update to both versions of Gamigo's MMO...

Star Citizen: Alpha 3.8 on the PTU, SOCS interview, Pillar Talk, and the BBC Click investigation

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Star Citizen is having a huge last week before the holidays. Let's round it all up, shall we? First, the patch: Alpha 3.8 was pushed...
Ho, then when I say so, ho again.

The Massively Overpowered 2019 winter holiday MMO roundup

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The holidays are here! Well, most of them are. Some of them might not be. And as is tradition here at Massively Overpowered, we...

EverQuest’s Torment of Velious and EverQuest II’s Blood of Luclin expansions are live

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Happy Expansion Week for the EverQuest franchise! EverQuest Next is releasing its second expa... what? What dimension am I in right now? One where...

Mysterious parchment teases next chapter of the Elder Scrolls Online

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Yesterday, members of the Elder Scrolls Online community began receiving mysterious packages in the mail. Despite likely instructions for the items to remain "for...

SWTOR kicks off Life Day and its eight year anniversary, shows off the Alderaan Stronghold

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Star Wars: The Old Republic has had an event-loaded December on tap, with the Relics of the Gree event already here and gone but...

Destiny 2’s The Dawning 2019 rewards players for giving out cookies to NPCs

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The Guardians of Destiny 2 are asked a lot of things. Fight the Darkness. Stop a war. Save time. Now, though, they're being asked...

Cyberpunk MMO Neocron breaks out a big update (and Christmas!) for late 2019

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Ever since 2012, Neocron quietly has become a poster child for a successful community-run MMORPG. That was the year that the insolvent Reakktor handed...

Wakfu overhauls the Sadida Kingdom region and celebrates Kwismas

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No, that's not a typo of "Christmas" - that's actually what Wakfu calls its seasonal event, which went live last week along with a...

Winter events kick off in Anarchy Online and Age of Conan, Conan Exiles launches a holiday contest

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It seems like a lot of MMOs and multiplayer games are starting to realize that Christmas is arriving in less than a week. Case...

Defiance 2050 launches the Solstice Strike and Trove kicks off Snowfest 2019

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Don't you dare think that Gamigo's stable of MMOs were going to be left out of the ongoing seasonal shenanigans, nuh-uh. Both Defiance 2050...

Chronicles of Elyria begins putting unclaimed land up for sale for a limited time

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For any Chronicles of Elyria fans who happened to miss out getting themselves some in-game land and has $65 to $3,500 burning a hole...

Pearl Abyss’ MMO shooter Plan 8 reveals new screenshots and how exosuits work

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When Pearl Abyss announced a slew of new games back in November, MMORPG fans were naturally drawn first and foremost to Crimson Desert. But...

Magic Legends will let you swap classes and form three-player groups

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Ever since the official reveal of Cryptic's Magic Legends at The Game Awards last week, we have been hungry for more details of this...

Black Desert’s new Guardian class drops January 22, with preroll on December 24

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We know, we know, this week is a little weird with Black Desert, given that the weekly updates happened on a Tuesday yesterday and...

Funcom’s Conan Chop Chop, newly retooled with ‘full online multiplayer,’ arrives February 25 2020

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Do you folks remember the goofball multiplayer title Funcom's been teasing all year, Conan Chop Chop? It was originally floated as an April Fools'...
The scales of judgement weight heavy.

Final Fantasy XIV suspends a streamer for shaming another player live on his stream

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One of the rules about playing Final Fantasy XIV is that players are to a limited extent liable for what they do and say outside...
Don't call me Kyle right now.

WoW Classic has finally begun offering character transfers – for $25

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Did you end up rolling on the wrong server during WoW Classic's chaotic launch? Discover later on that your shard became a ghost town...

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