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MMO Week in Review: Absurdly hyped for Torchlight Frontiers (August 12, 2018)
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!
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Take a peek at the development of Shroud of the Avatar’s player-designed dungeon system
Drama seems to plague Shroud of the Avatar, but if you can look past it, there's some fun innovation going on inside Portalarium in...
Star Wars Galaxies fans are working on an emulator for the game’s TCG
I haven't been making any secret of how much fun I'm having in the Star Wars Galaxies Legends emulator (and thanks so much to...
Grab a free MU Legend 3-Day Platinum Service Ticket from Webzen and MOP in honor of the Steam launch
Webzen's free-to-play MMORPG MU Legend landed on Steam this week alongside its Noria update, and to celebrate the launch on the new platform, the...
Elder Scrolls Online drops Murkmire, Wolfhunter trailers, buffs subscriber benefits
ZeniMax is dropping some good stuff at QuakeCon for players of The Elder Scrolls Online. If you're a dedicated subscriber, you're in for some...
Greed Monger delays refunds again because of crypto market dips
There's been another update in the long-running saga that is Greed Monger.
Greed Monger is easily the most infamous MMORPG Kickstarter failure to date, having raised...
Discord has launched its own video game storefront into beta, and it kinda looks like a Steam-GOG mashup
We all rolled our eyes when Valve's new Steam chat client borrowed heavily from Discord's proven best practices for chat, but most people didn't...
Massively Overthinking: Should MMORPGs incentivize exploration – and how?
Our Daily Grind on exploration last week sparked an intriguing follow-up from MOP reader Miol.
"When asking about sightseeing and exploration in MMORPGs, you also...
Trove is back online after major economy exploit; Trion to offer compensation, ban perpetrators
Trion's voxelbox Trove was down most of yesterday thanks to what screenshots clearly identified as a massive duping exploit that positively trashed the game's economy...
The Daily Grind: Is it time to move on from PvP ‘factions’ in MMORPGs?
I'm think I'm over factions in MMOs. I get why RvR games need them, and I'll grudgingly concede that the average player is far better...
Runewaker’s Guardians of Ember is getting a relaunch in the west thanks to Gameforge
It's been a weird 2018 for Guardians of Ember. Back in February, Valve booted its publisher, Insel Games, off Steam, citing review manipulation in...
Endless Trials seeks $66K on Kickstarter to build a semi-hardcore endgame PvE MMO that omits grind
Here's a new one for us, and if you like it, you can throw money at it right now: It's called Endless Trials, and...
Trove has been down since the crack of dawn thanks to an economy-breaking dupe exploit
Bad stuff is happening in Trove. Or was happening. Right now, nothing's happening at all because the servers came down early this morning, and...
PUBG developers embark on three-month ‘FIX PUBG’ campaign in which they are doing the fixing
Make no mistake: PUBG Corp. and Bluehole really do understand the flaws in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, and the studios are focusing on fixing them. That's...
Blizzard teases ‘multiple Diablo projects in the works,’ with reveals ‘later this year’
It's not exactly a secret that Blizzard has been working on something Diablo-related for a while as we've been tracking the company as it...
Ashes of Creation lays out its phased alpha roadmap, plans more hires this month
Ashes of Creation's latest newsletter has a few bits of interest for those watching the game from afar. For starters, Intrepid says it's now...
Interviewing the Bless team on the Assassin, merges, PvP, and concurrency as the patch goes live today
Bless Online is rolling out a hefty content update today as promised, including the Siege of Castra PvP battleground, the faction-based open-world Capital War,...
Revelation Online has officially launched on Steam with free welcome packs
Happy Steam launch, Revelation Online! Yep, as promised, My.com has ported the free-to-play game to Valve's popular platform all official-like as of today. And...
Hearthstone’s Boomsday Project expansion has launched – log in for your freebie card packs
Hearthstone's Boomsday Project expansion is live today with its typical goofy scenario, this one revolving around World of Warcraft's Netherstorm zone and a gobbo...
Black Desert and Ascent Infinite Realm publisher Kakao is investing in esports
Kakao is a massive South Korean company, and as most MMO fans reading blogs probably know, video games are just one element of that...