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Global Chat: The buzz over SWTOR’s December expansion

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The Force is strong with Star Wars: The Old Republic's new expansion, at least by all of the buzz that it's created thanks to...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite type of MMO crafting?

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If you ever told someone that you like crafting in MMOs, you know that this is such a broad and general statement as to...

Star Citizen on the Homestead demo and designing a ship that’s ‘dying over time’

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Star Citizen's Around the Verse is back this week with a peek into what the UK team is working on: the notorious Polaris, the...
WHERE'S YOUR GOD NOW?!

Is Hearthstone coming to the Nintendo Switch?

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If you missed all the buzz about it yesterday, the Nintendo Switch is Nintendo's next console that's either an interesting new take on a...
Light it up.

Star Wars: the Old Republic previews the mechanics of Dark vs. Light

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The light side and the dark side of the Force are kind of an entire thing in any Star Wars media, especially Star Wars:...

Blizzard releases free voice chat functionality for Battle.net

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The Battle.net launcher -- while we're still calling it Battle.net -- now has a new way for friends to pester and poke each other....

Guild Wars 2 heard you liked Halloween farming, so…

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Last night, ArenaNet end boss Mike O'Brien gave the Guild Wars 2 farming meta one step forward and one step back by announcing the team...
Revival

The Daily Grind: Have you ever been propositioned in an MMO for loot?

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Get your grimaces and side-eyes on: Kotaku put a piece out last week about "sugar daddies" in MMOs, proving once again that this genre is...
Losing in a way that's incidentally the same as not in fact losing at all.

Massively Overthinking: Real solutions to the MMO toxicity problem

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Toxicity. It's plagued online spaces since long before there were MMORPGs and other online video games, as any old school BBS user can attest....
This is going to go exactly how you think, if you actually think about it.

Paragon shows off the Countess, arriving October 25th

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Late October is the time to start having the creepy stuff show up in your game, right? Like a vampire stalking you in the...
Space fleas, not from nowhere.

Star Trek Online previews its next featured episode, Echoes of Light

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You can try to hide from the rest of the galaxy in Star Trek Online, but even though the galaxy is a very large...
Sometimes it kind of works out this way.

NASA worker praises Elite: Dangerous for its attention to detail

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No human being has ever flown to Saturn. The logistics of a manned mission out that far into space are just not realistic at...
Foight foight foight!

The Division launches its next major patch on October 25th

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October 25th appears to be the day of the month to launch new patches; The Division is joining the fun with patch 1.4. This...

Massively OP’s guide to MMO Halloween 2016

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"Two things I did on Hallows Night: / Made my house April-clear / Left open wide my door / to the ghosts of the...
We deserve this.

The Daily Grind: What MMO do you think is more important than people realize?

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Here at Massively Overpowered, we talk a lot about MMOs. (Shocking, I know.) Some of that means covering games that other people just plain...

WildStar challenges players to build spooky haunts

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In addition to its in-game Halloween event, WildStar has a special challenge to home decorators this year: build the creepiest, coolest, and most photogenic...
We all began with good intents.

Chronicles of Elyria discusses moving to production and its next stretch goal

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Good news for the Chronicles of Elyria fans in the audience, as the game is officially moving on from pre-production to production very soon....

Hero’s Song on what to expect from next week’s backer alpha

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John Smedley's enthusiasm for his indie MMOARPG Hero's Song hasn't faltered -- Pixelmage Games gets to keep the $94,231 raised through Indiegogo, after all,...

Hyperspace Beacon: Examining SWTOR’s contentious 5.0 endgame gear grind

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If you didn't watch the Star Wars: The Old Republic livestream on Monday, then you missed Creative Director Charles Boyd, Producer Ben Irving, and...
No, be a dude.

Brazilian teenager accidentally dies following League of Legends loss

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We have had far too many public service announcements on Massively Overpowered in recent months about things not to do around games. For example,...

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