Weird week to be an MMORPG fan, anyway. Read on for the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions in the Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!
THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
Massively Overthinking: Massively OP’s PAX West 2018 awards and poll - Most of this year's PAX West content is finally finished, and while we're about to give MOP reporter Larry Everett a much-needed breather, we've got one more thing left to…
WildStar and Carbine are shutting down - NCsoft is axing Carbine, Kotaku reported this afternoon, which means the end of MMORPG WildStar. Here's the statement NCsoft gave to Kotaku. "Today, we are closing Carbine Studios and will…
EVE Online developer CCP Games bought by Black Desert Online studio Pearl Abyss - [AL:EVE]I bet that's not a headline you expected to wake up to! EVE Online developer CCP Games confirmed this morning that it will soon be a wholly owned subsidiary of…
Daybreak announces new investment, new H1Z1 and EverQuest mobile titles, and a new esports arena - Today does seem to be the day for big financial bombshells, doesn't it? Turns out Daybreak had a card up its sleeve too. The MMORPG company announced today that a…
THQ Nordic has bought up the rights to 38 Studios’ Project Copernicus and Kingdoms of Amalur - Finally, somebody bought the 38 Studios IPs, and that somebody is THQ Nordic. I'm sure I don't need to recap the 38 Studios mess to stalwart MMORPG veterans, but let…
Frodo lives: A new Lord of the Rings MMORPG is apparently in the works - If you've been one of the folks begging for a new Lord of the Rings MMO, well, then today's your lucky day. Online sports game maker Athlon Games announced this…
LOTRO Legendarium: A new Lord of the Rings MMO enters the One Ring - [AL:LOTRO]It's a tale as old as time: Whenever an MMO starts getting up there in years and starting to show signs of age, you will invariably hear comments along the…
A eulogy for WildStar – a marvelous MMORPG and avoidable tragedy - Friends, readers, genre fans, lend me your eyes; I come to bury WildStar, not to praise it. But just like Marc Antony, I'm going to be doing a lot of…
The Soapbox: I have a bad feeling about Anthem - As I watched Nick Tarabay stand on stage hype up the audience in the Main Theater for PAX West 2018, I thought it was pretty cool that Anthem was able…
PAX West 2018: The PWE gauntlet of Neverwinter and Torchlight - If you had told me five years ago that Perfect World Entertainment would not only own but make many of the games that they bought from other studios into something…
DragonCon 2018: Secret World Legends is finally getting a new scenario - [AL:SWL]Since the inception of scenarios back in The Secret World, there has always been a promise of more to come. And now, that promise will be finally be fulfilled in…
The Daily Grind: So how worried are you about Pearl Abyss’ buyout of CCP Games? - The panic over the impending Pearl Abyss buyout of CCP Games has been palpable for the last 24 hours. The EVE Online Reddit was positively ablaze yesterday with "RIP EVE"…
PAX West 2018: How to win and lose at Dauntless - People actually lined up for Dauntless at PAX West 2018. I don't know if it was the placement of the booth, if people liked what they saw on the show…
Star Wars The Old Republic announces massive fall update, Jedi Under Siege - [AL:TOR]I feel so much better about an MMO's longevity when its studio is putting out regular updates and roadmaps heralding those updates. That's exactly what BioWare has done for Star…
Standing Stone says that new LOTR MMO will have no impact on Lord of the Rings Online - [AL:LOTRO]Are you concerned over the announcement of a new Lord of the Rings MMORPG? Welp, you're not alone. As we covered yesterday, Leyou Technologies, the Chinese company that owns Warframe…
PAX West 2018: Survival MMO Rend’s surprising art, Dorito map, faction PvP, and inbound PvE - If this PAX West 2018 was about one thing, it was about proving me wrong. I jumped into the Rend interview expecting a specific type of game. It’s a PvP survival…
PAX West 2018: Getting my feet wet in Elder Scrolls Online’s Murkmire - [AL:ESO]I should preface this article with two things: I got to spend maybe 15 minutes in Murkmire while in a crowded, loud room at the Hard Rock Cafe in Seattle…
New World interview covers sandbox design, hosting tech, combat, death, and more - New World, Amazon's in-development MMO, has been something of a mystery until the last few weeks, but information is now coming out faster and faster. This week, GamerHubTV posted an…
Elite Dangerous’ Gnosis community storyline goes awry over ‘godmoding’ - If Elite Dangerous has disappointed you with its handling of player events in the past, this week's situation probably isn't going to endear you to it further. Apparently, Frontier decided…
Final Fantasy XIV offers up its trailer for Prelude in Violet - [AL:FFXIV]Be fairly warned that the trailer for Final Fantasy XIV patch 4.4, Prelude in Violet, will not answer all of your questions about the patch and what it contains. It…
Bless Online’s Rift of Space and Time update is live with new endgame content - If there's an honest to goodness rift in space and time, you should probably not be wasting your precious seconds left in the universe playing video games. On second thought,…
So here’s the tea on Guild Wars 2’s bubble tea promo – and why EU players are now being excluded - [AL:GW2]Last week, we covered Guild Wars 2's bizarre but fun promotion with bubble tea vendor Kung Fu Tea. As originally announced, the promo was supposed to grant mobile users keys…
H1Z1’s professional league is allegedly struggling in viewers, attendance, and actually paying its players - It looks like H1Z1 is having some problems with its professional e-sports league. This isn't entirely news, as the league faced controversy right from the start, but a piece on…
Valve’s Artifact will feature no moderation and no cards earned through play - Oh boy. If you've avoided hearing about Valve's upcoming digital card game, Artifact, you might want to take a look at the latest interview from GameIndustry.biz with programmer Jeep Barnett…
Destiny 2’s Forsaken DLC is officially live today – are you going back? - [AL:D2]It's happening! Destiny 2's Forsaken expansion is rolling out today - right as this post goes live, in fact, at 1 p.m. EDT and around the globe. As we've previously…
EVE Evolved: How would you reboot EVE Online? - [AL:EVE]EVE Online has been pretty comfortable in its hardcore sci-fi MMO niche for over 15 years now, working its way through dozens of expansions and major updates to become the complex…
Esports in the Olympics isn’t happening any time soon thanks to ‘killer games’ - Over the last year or so, the idea of bringing esports to the Olympics has begun to sound more plausible. In 2017, the co-president of the Paris Olympic bid committee said it…
Perfect Ten: Why World of Warcraft is still worth playing - When it comes to popular games, it seems as though writers don't feel that they have to extol their virtues. They're already popular, after all. Instead, it becomes the trend…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
Massively OP Podcast Episode 185: PAX West crud
The Stream Team: Pet rocks in ARK
The Stream Team: Delving into Path of Exile’s new league
The Stream Team: WildStar’s last hurrah
The Stream Team: Secret World Legends’ first faction mission
The Stream Team: Fighting the Empire on Iokath in SWTOR
The Stream Team: Searching AdventureQuest 3D’s Screaming Woods
AND FROM OUR FRIENDS AT BLIZZARD WATCH
How to get yourself a Water Strider mount, the most useful mount of any WoW expansion
WoW’s new Arathi Warfront features a heartbreaking nod to Before the Storm
Know Your Lore: Could Saurfang be the next Warchief?
Every week, get caught up on the MMO genre’s latest news and Massively OP’s best content in our MMO Week in Review! Want more roundups of content? Try Friday’s Betawatch for MMO testing highlights, Saturday’s Make My MMO for MMO crowdfunding updates, and Sunday’s The MOP Up, which mops up all the little bits of news we didn’t cover anywhere else.
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