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Wizard101 talks up 2021 stat rebalancing and PvP changes, Pirate101 adds a free respec for subscribers

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The producer of Wizard101 really likes the world of Karamelle. That's part of the impression given by her recent producer's letter, which talks up...

Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Best MMO Music of 2020

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MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Best MMO Music of 2020, which last year wasn't directly awarded; instead, we...

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2020

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Earlier this week, we named our biggest MMO story of the year and gave it an award, though we imagine it's hard for a...
Uggo

The Daily Grind: Does this holiday season affect your MMO time?

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Normally, the holidays are a time with stuff happening. There's traveling to be done usually as you see members of your family, there's stuff...
Popcorn appropriately.

ToxMod is a new moderation tool that recognizes and reports voice chat hate speech in real-time

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Moderating a game's text chat isn't easy by any means, but at least there are a variety of tools and algorithms that try to...

MassivelyOP’s 2020 Golden Yachties: Best MMO post that is actually just song lyrics

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MassivelyOP’s not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for best MMO post that is actually just song lyrics. (If you’re wondering what the...

Warframe studio Digital Extremes promises independent operation and no changes to game direction after Leyou buyout

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2020 was the year in which MMO studios were Pac-Man'd by bigger companies because massive corporations with deep purses do that to break their...
Venting prevents ex-plo-si-on.

Both sides of EVE Online’s massive World War Bee 2 have agreed to a Christmas truce

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Mark the date of Monday, December 21st, 2020 in your calendar if you're the sort of person following EVE Online history as Internet Spaceship...

Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: Indie MMO of the Year

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MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for Indie MMO of the Year, which was awarded jointly to Villagers & Heroes...
Fighty smashy!

Crowfall recaps an eventful 2020 as it pushes forward to launch in 2021

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At one point we used to joke about how many times Crowfall had delayed its full alpha and its beta testing... but no more,...
Nope.

PSA: The Steam Winter Sale is now live, complete with steep MMO discounts

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You probably already learned this from finding that dozens of games on your wishlist were on sale, but the Steam Winter Sale is live...

Star Citizen reschedules its Assault on Stanton server event to next year

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Earlier in the week there was word from CIG that Star Citizen was ready to give its new alpha 3.12 dynamic event system a...

The Daily Grind: What MMO abilities make you feel like a rock star?

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I'll admit that there's a shade of vanity that prompts me to bust out my best and most noticeable skills whenever I'm in an...
Blueprint'd!

Dual Universe introduces the full rundown on its detailed blueprint DRM systems

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One of the goals of the open creative structure in Dual Universe is to allow designers to sell their designs to other players. But how...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 302: Your MMO mail, our MMO opinions

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Justin and Bree tackle an all-mailbag show, with topics including gaming music and writing mainstream awards, MMO exploration, crafting and EVE Online, vanilla Guild Wars 2, the "one MMO" gamer, MMOs that make you want to play other MMOs, WoW transmog, Raph Koster's brain, and Shadowbane.

MassivelyOP’s 2020 Golden Yachties: Best worst MMO bug

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MassivelyOP’s not-so-serious end-of-the-year awards continue today with our pick for best worst MMO bug. (If you’re wondering what the heck a Golden Yachtie is,...
Have some stuff.

Blizzard offers a plethora of game discounts with its holiday sale this year

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We don't really like advertising sales consistently here on Massively Overpowered because we already have actual advertising on the site and that costs money....

Grab a MU Online or C9 gift bundle in Webzen’s Holiday 2020 giveaway

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Webzen is putting a festive hat on 2020 and celebrating the winter holidays with events across its catalogue of MMOs: MU Online and Continent of...

Massively OP’s 2020 Awards: MMO Studio of the Year

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MassivelyOP’s end-of-the-year awards for 2020 continue today with our award for MMO Studio of the Year, which was awarded to Grinding Gear Games last...
Cool guys don't look at explosions.

Defiance yanks away server compensation ‘due to abuse’

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Be warned: The Grinch has been spotted skulking around Defiance this week. Just days after Gamigo announced that it would be handing out compensation packages...

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