Yearly Archives: 2016

Game companies launch countermeasures against striking voice actor union with website

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A coalition of companies targeted by the voice actor strike ongoing since earlier this month have created a website to argue their point of...

Bless Online releases English trailer, promising 2017 launch

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Bless Source has got its mitts on a new English language Bless Online trailer promising the game's "coming 2017 with a completely overhauled action combat...

City of Titans puts on costumes for Halloween

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Just in time for the most costume-friendly holiday of the year, Missing Worlds Media has a new video and post to show off some...
Someone must have had fun with this at some point, right?

League of Legends crowns 2016 world champions

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This past weekend, the battle went down in League of Legends' biggest tournament of the year. When the dust settled, Team SK Telecom T1...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite voice acting in an MMORPG?

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The SAG-AFTRA's voice actor strike last week has created a lot of discussion in our comments and elsewhere about the value of voice acting...

MMO Week in Review: All Hallows’ Eve eve in EVE Vegas (October 30, 2016)

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! Halloween...

EVE Evolved: Alpha Clone economics, bragging rights, and restrictions

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Yesterday at EVE Vegas 2016, developer CCP Rise held us spellbound with tales of his recent misadventures in EVE Online recently when pretending to...

Japanese top card battler Shadowverse launches on Steam

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Shadowverse might not have the street recognition in the west that, say, Magic the Gathering or Hearthstone does, but over in Japan the digital...

The MOP Up: FFXI revs up appreciation campaigns (October 30, 2016)

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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...

BlizzCon books Game of Thrones’ Kristian Nairn to DJ

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Hodor? Hodor? HODOR! Sorry, we'll translate. Blizzard announced that it has booked a surprise DJ for its anniversary party at next week's BlizzCon: Kristian Nairn,...

Leaderboard: Elder Scrolls Online vs. Skyrim HD

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You might think this a biased Leaderboard for an MMORPG website to craft, but truthfully, I was an Elder Scrolls fangirl before I was an...

One Shots: A familiar familiar

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If you're going to go adventuring in an insanely hostile world wearing nothing but robes and supportive undergarments, then you best be compensated for...

The Daily Grind: Are conventions worth it for MMOs without big announcements?

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This year marked both another fan festival for Final Fantasy XIV and another BlizzCon for World of Warcraft (among other games). BlizzCon, however, looks...

Make My MMO: Big updates for Elite Dangerous and Shroud of the Avatar (October 29, 2016)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Elite Dangerous' massive Guardians expansion went live this week, introducing new features to the space epic including multi-person...

EVE Vegas 2016: Bridging the gap between PvE and PvP

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While EVE Online is typically thought of as a cutthroat PvP game, players spend a substantial amount of time engaged in PvE activities such...

Bless Online hosts Russian open beta this weekend

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The Russian version of Bless Online is hosting an open beta event this weekend, from October 28th through the 30th. According to the description,...
Beware, beware, beware.

Shroud of the Avatar explains its skill decay death penalty

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These days, most MMO players don't think about death penalties as much more than a time and/or small repair cost for gear. When it...

The Game Archaeologist: Six Halloween holidays from buried MMOs

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There are two things to know about Halloween and MMOs. The first is that just about every online game in the known universe puts...

The Stream Team: The DodoRex returns with ARK’s Fear Evolved

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Sadly, Studio WildCard dropped the ball and failed to release the vampirism and lycanthropy that were planned for ARK's Fear Evolved holiday event. But...
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WRUP: The haunted house of anxieties edition

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Welcome, one and all, to the horrifying haunted house of anxieties! I would advise our patrons with weak hearts to remain inside, because the...

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