Events

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Burn it all.

Defiance invites you to cleanse the diseased with pure, searing flame

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The new Defiance event is full of disease. There's an outbreak of some illness or another with all-new Arkfalls, but what's really important is...

SWTOR sweetens the rewards for Iokath dailies, preps double XP event

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Today's patch for Star Wars: The Old Republic aims to improve the quality of the new Iokath daily mission hub in both performance and...
Give me your tired, your hungry, your stuff.

City of Heroes fans party hard for the game’s 13th birthday

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Last Friday evening, the torch was raised once again for City of Heroes. Despite the game being offline for a half-decade now, fans from...

The Stream Team: Happy 5th birthday TERA!

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A half a decade: That's how old TERA is today. And the Honorbound patch recently launched as well. That makes two good reasons for...

Elite Dangerous’ novel-concluding Salomé event was wrecked by long-con griefers

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Last week, we reported on an impending roleplaying event in Elite Dangerous that was set to influence the outcome of Premonition, a game-based novel...

The MOP Up: Warface meets Crysis (April 30, 2017)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Shroud of the Avatar

Wanna try new MMORPGs? Join the MMO Book Club

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Long ago when we were between MMOs, my guild went through several months of playing a new game every week thanks to the magic...

LOTRO Legendarium: 10th anniversary interview with Standing Stone’s Rob Ciccolini

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As Lord of the Rings Online players revel in the varied activities of this year's 10th anniversary celebration, the crew at the newly formed...
You really know nothing about me and no one cares.

EverQuest II delays The Menagerie, grants 3X experience all weekend

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EverQuest II players know the game suffered some unanticipated and lengthy downtime this week. Daybreak says it was dealing with "technical issues with ...

The Stream Team: Celebrating City of Heroes with Paragon Chat costume contests

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Never say die! If City of Heroes fans had a motto, this would likely be it. Although they don't have the original game to...

Build your very own Space Shuttle Endeavour in Star Conflict’s new event

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Feeling nostalgic for the shuttle program? How about the Cold War manifested in an escalating space industry? MMO space sim Star Conflict has you...

Elite Dangerous’ community tool developers have gone on strike

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Update: The strike has ended -- see the end of the post for details. Move over, voice actors guild: Elite Dangerous gamers are going on...

Join MOP in Paragon Chat for Friday’s City of Heroes anniversary bash

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Beloved superhero MMORPG City of Heroes turns 13 years old tomorrow, and what better way to celebrate than in Paragon City? That's exactly what...

Dark Age of Camelot welcomes back old players, Ultima Online discusses summer updates

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Broadsword's keeping fans of its MMORPGs Dark Age of Camelot and Ultima Online busy this week! Dark Age of Camelot is running a Come Back...

Snag a Mu Online, Flyff, C9, or Rappelz key in honor of Webzen’s 8th anniversary

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Webzen is celebrating 8 years of MMOs today, kicking off multiple events and patches across its games: MU Origin has posted its 1.7 update with...
With a bullet.

Final Fantasy XIV announces the last PlayStation 3 login campaign and a new Amazon promotional campaign

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With the release of its second expansion, Final Fantasy XIV will no longer be supported on the PlayStation 3. There's a free upgrade to...

Lord of the Rings Online celebrates 10 years with stream at noon

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Lord of the Rings Online is currently in the middle of its 10th anniversary celebrations, only somewhat darkened by the grumbling over the event's...

The Stream Team: Lord of the Rings Online turns 10!

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For 10 years fans have been able to wander through the beauty of Middle-earth thanks to Lord of the Rings Online -- 10 years...

This in-game Elite Dangerous event will affect the game’s novelization

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Cancel your plans for Saturday, folks: You're gonna want to be in Elite Dangerous. That's because Frontier has a big event planned that day...

Team Obey wins $180,000 in H1Z1’s TV tournament

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This week, one H1Z1 team is sitting pretty on a pile of $180,000 and fame, thanks to winning the televised H1Z1: Fight for the...