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PSN users find level boosts for Destiny on the PSN store

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Good news, Destiny players on the PlayStation with a desire to bypass a good chunk of leveling! You belong to a rather narrow subgroup,...

The Daily Grind: Are you an MMO ‘harbinger of failure’?

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Earlier this year, blog Kill Ten Rats wrote about "Harbingers of Failure," a term coined by a quad of marketing researchers to describe people...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: MMO Trend of the Year

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the best MMO trend of 2015. Last year, we chose sandbox and social gameplay as the awardee...

The MOP Up: GTA Online makes every bullet count (December 13, 2015)

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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...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Most Likely to Flop

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our most likely to flop in 2016 and beyond award. Last year, Star Citizen took home this dishonor, leading to...

Star Citizen just dinged to 100 million dollars

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Crowdfunding efforts for Cloud Imperium's Star Citizen space sim have just crossed the $100,000,000 mark. Over a million gamers have contributed to the game, which...
And in the distance, the call of payment.

DayZ now allows monetized private servers

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In the event of a zombie apocalypse like the one that has apparently hit the world of DayZ, human money will be entirely worthless....
And this time, we mean it.

Betawatch: Albion Online celebrates the season and its backers (December 11, 2015)

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Who loves Albion Online? The game is clearly doing something right enough to celebrate 60,000 founders backing the game in its current beta test;...
This isn't how it had to be.

Perfect Ten: The 10 best free-to-play MMORPGs

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You know one of the reasons I like writing this column? Because one of these days I'm going to be able to make a...

Stratics MMO players turn to Indiegogo in bid to buy their own site

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If you've been playing MMOs for as long as I have, then Stratics.com was probably one of the first MMO websites you ever visited,...

Massively Overthinking: MMO predictions for 2016

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Now that we've all had a good laugh at the things we got wrong and marveled at the things we got right in last...

Age of Conan loses lead designer, offers multi-month sub deal

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Sad tidings are in store for the Age of Conan community today, as Lead Designer Matthew "CirithGorgor" Bennett announced that he is leaving Funcom. Bennett...

EVE Valkyrie will launch bundled with the Oculus Rift

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Oculus and CCP have just announced that the EVE-spinoff VR shooter, EVE Valkyrie, will launch bundled with the Rift itself in 2016. https://twitter.com/oculus/status/674983291527671808 CCP Bosun joined...

Ten years ago today, Star Wars Galaxies’ NGE made the New York Times

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Hat tip to Redditor dejoblue, who's reminded everyone about the fateful day back in 2005 when SOE, struggling in the wake of World of Warcraft's...
Getting carded.

The Daily Grind: Will you try Epic’s Paragon MOBA?

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I hadn't heard of Paragon before last weekend, but after watching the brief gameplay clip that Epic released to tease its upcoming MOBA, I'm...
Whoa there, little mechy.

Project Genom is getting a full open world and rebuilt locations

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Wondering what's going on with Project Genom? You're not the only one, as the most recent development dispatch makes it clear that the team...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Most Improved MMO

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the most improved MMO of 2015. All MMOs, regardless of release date, were eligible for this award,...
How do you survive?

Darkfall requests community feedback; F2P is off the table

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It's not exactly a secret that Darkfall Unholy Wars isn't a darling of the entire Darkfall fandom, considering that there are two separate attempts...
Three-point landing! Sort of.

Bless enters focus group testing until December 20th

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Bless was originally slated to release right around, well, now. Right this moment, as you're reading. No fooling! But the game had some issues...

Massively OP’s Best of 2015 Awards: Biggest MMO Story of the Year

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Massively OP's end-of-the-year awards continue today with our award for the MMO story of the year. This isn't an award based on popularity as measured by hits...

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