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Price shark.

RIFT is upping its subscription price slightly with its next patch

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If you're considering taking a break from RIFT and dropping your subscription for a month, you may not wish to do that. With the...

Steam has The Secret World’s ultimate edition for half price

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Yep, the headline pretty much says it all. If you still haven't taken the plunge on Funcom's seminal Secret World MMO, now is as...

Crowfall sums up its Hunger Dome test, even though it’s not over yet

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Crowfall's Hunger Dome 1.0 PvP playtest is nearing its end. As such, ArtCraft has published a recap video reflecting what the firm has learned...

Guild Wars 2 enhances its squad UI, preps for Halloween

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ArenaNet recently unveiled its enhanced squad UI for Guild Wars 2. It's designed to help players organize their friends, guildmates, and other large groups...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 31: MMO expansions come roaring back

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Justin and Bree discuss Devilian, SWTOR, Ultima Online, the return of the MMO expansion, RIFT, Camelot Unchained, ArchLord 2, and Guild Wars 2, with mailbag questions on Heart of Thorns and gambleboxes.
Do it anyway, but feel bad about it.

Hi-Rez Studios felt bad about abandoning Tribes: Ascend

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Letting Tribes: Ascend lie untouched for a long while was a smart business decision for Hi-Rez Studios, but it wasn't one that the developers...
this is duuuuuuuumb

Valve developer claims that VR motion sickness isn’t the fault of the hardware

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Are you worried about getting hit by a sense of motion sickness whilst using a VR headset? Valve's Chet Faliszek states that you don't...
DAGRON

Guild Wars 2’s former lead designer now develops for Amazon

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Amazon has been trying to work its way into game development for a while, but the retailer has a new weapon in its arsenal....

Not So Massively: Martin Shkreli slammed in e-sports; Star Citizen legal letter revealed

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Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really...

Black Desert’s Russian beta starts October 12

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Can you read Russian? Me neither, but I can read Reddit as well as the big date on the top of Black Desert's Russian...

ARK gets a swamp, snow, dire wolves, and more

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ARK: Survival Evolved got two new biomes in today's 216 patch. A swamp and snow-covered region are now available, along with new critters like...
Boss of the road.

Here’s a look at the Ranger in Bless’ beta

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The final Korean beta test for Bless is officially over, and Steparu has published his final look at the game. He takes the Ranger...

Project Copernicus was in trouble long before its $75M loan

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The lengthy post-mortem of Project Copernicus and 38 Studios never seems to end, does it? While the answer to "What went wrong?" is multi-faceted at the very...
Work it over.

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen gets investors, development is continuing

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Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen missed out on its Kickstarter goals, but that wasn't the end of the road. Visionary Realms, after an extended...
This poor woman may now be able to wear a shirt.

That Wizards of the Coast vs. HEX lawsuit has finally been settled

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Good news, virtual card game fans! That long-running lawsuit between Hex Entertainment, Cryptozooic, and Wizards of the Coast is finally out of the way....
Sure you are, home slice.

Star Citizen studio ‘grows’ dev team, claims layoffs are ‘streamlin[ing]’

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It's never exactly calming to hear that a large project is laying people off before release, and that's the rumor swirling around Cloud Imperium...

The MOP Up: A rebirth for Star Wars Galaxies

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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...

Here’s what happened with Star Citizen’s FPS module this week

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Cloud Imperium published its weekly look at Star Citizen's Star Marine FPS module progress earlier this weekend. Most of the week was spent fixing...

Camelot Unchained boss talks classes, new hires, and more

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Camelot Unchained's end-of-the-week update was published earlier this weekend. Head honcho Mark Jacobs revisited the big class presentation reveal, and explained that the RvR...
Uh, no.

The Daily Grind: Are you hopeful about crowdfunded MMOs?

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A few years back, we were all discussing the frankly dizzying amounts of money going into crowdfunding MMOs. Speculation ran rampant that this was...

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