CCP Games had plenty to show at this year’s EVE Vegas, hopefully enough to allay concerns over its recent acquisition by Black Desert’s Pearl Abyss. MOP’s Brendan has thus far reported on the 2019 launch of EVE Online mobile adaptation EVE Echoes, Project Nova’s development news and pre-alpha, and big changes coming to EVE Online – including a revamp of the wardec system that doesn’t suck.
We’ve got plenty more coming, so stay tuned to the latest in our EVE Vegas landing page, and then read on to catch up with the very best of this week’s MMO news and opinions today as every Sunday in Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!EVE VEGAS 2018
EVE Fanfest 2018: CCP Games has big plans for data collection and machine learning - [AL:EVE]Every day in the sandbox of New Eden, several hundred thousand EVE Online players perform millions of unseen actions. Every item manufactured, module activated, shot fired at an NPC, and…
CCP Games offers DUST 514 veteran reward accounts in upcoming Project Nova - Those of you who have been following the highs and lows of EVE Online developer CCP Games over the years will remember the story of DUST 514, the MMOFPS that…
EVE Vegas 2018 is this weekend: Here’s what to expect from the show - It's that time of year again when internet spaceship nerds descend on Las Vegas to get incredibly drunk find out what the future holds for EVE Online and its related…
EVE Vegas 2018: Watch CCP Games’ keynote right here at 4:30 p.m. EDT - MOP's Brendan Drain is on the ground at EVE Vegas this year, and we're expecting all the best coverage from him because he's Brendan and that's just what he does…
EVE Vegas 2018: EVE Echoes, EVE Online’s mobile adaptation, is launching in 2019 - When CCP Games started shifting some of its focus to the mobile games market recently, we heard rumblings of a mobile version of EVE Online being developed in conjunction with…
EVE Vegas 2018: EVE Online is finally getting a fair wardec system - In my latest EVE Evolved column, I looked into the unfair nature of highsec war declaration in EVE Online. This feature bypasses police protections against PvP and is typically used…
EVE Vegas 2018: Player-built stargates and co-op Abyssal Deadspace coming to EVE Online this winter - CCP Games delved into detail on this winter's upcoming EVE Online expansion this weekend at EVE Vegas 2018, and it sounds like it will contain everything we expected and more. Following…
EVE Vegas 2018: Project Nova pre-alpha is playable with alpha signups open now - Two years ago at EVE Fanfest 2016, CCP Games showed off a demo of a new first-person shooter codenamed Project Nova that rose from the ashes of the defunct MMOFPSÂ DUST…
An EVE Online player used his Homeland Security contacts to save EVE Vegas 2018 - In what sounds like the plot of a movie, this weekend's EVE Vegas 2018 event in Las Vegas almost fell apart at the last minute only to be saved by…
Massively OP Podcast Episode 193: EVE Vegas special - Justin and Brendan recap EVE Vegas, with expert news on EVE Online's upcoming content, EVE Echoes, and Project Nova. (Special edition episode.)
EVE Evolved: How mass surveillance is improving EVE Online - When developers get on stage at an event and start talking about things like big data, artificial intelligence, and cloud solutions, it often sounds like bullshit designed to attract investors…
THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
WoW Factor: Examining excitement, accomplishment, and elitism in Battle for Azeroth - It's been a while, and for good reason. But now that we're nearly three months into Battle for Azeroth, the World of Warcraft community as a whole has had some…
Vague Patch Notes: How do you play MMOs when you know humans suffered to make them? - The original Star Wars film was a passion project for a then-young George Lucas, and it was a project that nearly killed Lucas from stress. When filming started in the…
Blizzard will announce ‘Diablo-related news’ at BlizzCon, but it’s not what you want to hear - Lately there's been a whole lot of speculation surrounding Diablo, with rumors flying left and right about what may be in store for the future of Blizzard's venerable demon-killing franchise.…
LOTRO Legendarium: Wait a minute, LOTRO, you lost me - If WildStar will go down in gaming history as the MMO with the consistently shortest quest text, then Lord of the Rings Online has to take home first place for…
Warframe’s Fortuna expansion widens the open world this November - [AL:WarF]We've finally got a launch window for the Fortuna update that Warframe's Digital Extremes first revealed at TennoCon this past summer: It's coming next month, at least on PC. "Canadian…
Global Chat: Is it time to get rid of MMO factions? - Factions in MMORPGs are a "love 'em, hate 'em, or largely ignore 'em until the studio remembers it has 'em and decides to shove 'em in your face all of…
Funcom allowed a fan to publish and sell a novel based on the Secret World franchise - Here's one for the warm fuzzies bin: MOP reader Ocho (@BigMikeyOcho) of Casual Aggro and Beyond the Veil was first to cover the fact that Funcom apparently gave a Secret…
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite RPGs for MMORPG fans - This week's Overthinking topic was sent along to us from MOP reader Mordyjuice. This is gonna be a fun one! "I find that I often play MMOs like solo RPGs,…
Star Wars: The Old Republic is giving players its first two story expansions for free - Mobile game Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes has recently introduced a number of characters from the acclaimed Star Wars RPG Knights of the Old Republic, and BioWare is joining in…
The LA Times investigates Riot Games’ ‘boys’ club’ sexism problem, ESPN reports Riot staff ‘departures’ - If League of Legends company Riot Games thought that the Rockstar crunch conversation was going to eclipse Riot's sexism predicament, it can give up on that dream. Both the LA…
Hyperspace Beacon: Old characters, rumors, and nostalgia in Star Wars The Old Republic - I believe a game has hit an unusual place when players get nostalgic pangs for a game within the game itself. We see that kind of things in franchise games like…
Black Desert’s Russian servers will be spared from their abrupt and messy closure after all - Welp, we did not see this coming, but here's some extremely good news in the Black Desert license transfer saga. Over the last couple of weeks, we've been covering the…
Ubisoft claims that it ‘cannot be openly political’ in The Division - Gosh, this is one heck of a sentiment. Ubisoft's COO, Alf Condelius, recently spoke at the Sweden Game Conference and claimed that it could not and would not be openly…
Fallout 76: Absurd merch, the discless Platinum edition, and criticism of ‘nuke porn’ - The second part of this article is about something serious, so we're starting with the ridiculous first, k? And here it is: Bethsoft has apparently teamed up with Numskull to…
ZeniMax Online Studios is hiring for an MMO project based on ‘an exciting new IP’ - A new job posting on ZeniMax Online Studios's career site reveals that the studio is looking to hire a core tech programmer to join the team at its Hunt Valley,…
World of Warcraft streamer discusses the major problems with Battle for Azeroth - Whatever new expansion goodwill World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth had held is now gone, and YouTuber Asmongold opines that he's never seen the feedback across all the possible venues…
Rockstar boasts of 100-hour work weeks on Red Dead Redemption 2 - If you're looking forward to Red Dead Redemption 2, we can hardly blame you as it seems like half of the civilized world is looking forward to it at this…
Just Survive will in fact survive beyond its planned October sunset - Last month, H1Z1 players got the sad (if not entirely surprising) news that Daybreak would be sunsetting the game's Just Survive component on October 24th, but it appears that all…
EVE Evolved: Wars are literally ruining EVE Online - EVE Online is fundamentally about real conflict between players on massive scales, and yet I would venture to say that wars are literally ruining the game for a lot of…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
Massively OP Podcast Episode 191: It’s looking a little patchy around here
The Stream Team: Hanging out at RIFT’s Harvest Festival
The Stream Team: Wyvern hatching in ARK Ragnarok
The Stream Team: Seeking the Spectral Dragon in Dungeons and Dragons Online
The Stream Team: Beckoned back to Villagers and Heroes’ Spooky Town
The Stream Team: Haunted Burrow and other LOTRO Halloween fun
The Stream Team: More Secret World Legends Samhain
The Stream Team: Betrayer’s remorse as the SWTOR hunt continues
The Stream Team: A night in EverQuest II’s Nights of the Dead
The Stream Team: Happy 6th birthday Pirate101
AND FROM OUR FRIENDS AT BLIZZARD WATCH
• How could Battle for Azeroth have been released differently?
• BlizzCon 2018 is coming! Is it time to panic yet?
• Illidan is not prepared for Blizzard’s response 7-year-old’s fan art — and neither are your emotions
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 bits of news we didn’t cover anywhere else.
