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Skyforge’s Witch blends damage and crowd control

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Skyforge has updated its website with an in-depth look at the Witch. It's an advanced class that is described as a skilled manipulator and...

Blade & Soul’s Destroyer wields a giant axe, generates low threat

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It's Destroyer week on the Blade & Soul website, which means that there is plenty of new class-specific stuff to read. The Destroyer is...

EA denies Origin account database breach

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Hackers may have illegally accessed Origin's user databases, which may mean those of you with Star Wars: The Old Republic accounts or any other...

Wakfu rolls back EU server to June

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Call it the mother of all rollbacks. A series of technical issues has resulted in massive amounts of lost data on Wakfu's EU Elbor server, requiring...

The Daily Grind: Will you try Wurm Unlimited?

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I don't know what was going on with me during the week of September 16th, but I completely missed the news about fantasy sandbox...

EVE Evolved: Does skillpoint trading make EVE pay-to-win?

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EVE Online's realtime skill training system has been a major point of contention throughout the game's lifetime, being a boon for those with little...

The MOP Up: Heart of Thorns countdown (October 18, 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...

Defiance’s TV series has been canceled, but the game will live on [Updated]

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So much for transmedia synergy. Syfy announced Friday that after three seasons, it is canceling Defiance. The show was part of a cross-media initiative to tie together...
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Make My MMO: Divergence ‘goes for broke’ (October 17, 2015)

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It was another good week for Star Wars Galaxies offshoot Divergence Online, which cracked the top 10 on Steam's Greenlight list and settled into...

Black Desert’s Warrior awakens with a greatsword next week

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Last month Pearl Abyss announced the Awakening system for Black Desert, which is basically a weapon-swapping mechanic that allows traditional sword-and-board classes like the...

Shroud of the Avatar highlights zones, player-made music

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Shroud of the Avatar's latest weekly update is a meaty deep dive into everything from the fantasy sandbox's musical system to its zones to...

You’ll need to manage fuel and choose your jump points wisely in Star Citizen

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Cloud Imperium is expanding its weekly Star Marine update to include news relating to Star Citizen's upcoming 2.0.0 alpha patch. CIG says that brand...

Camelot Unchained talks stretch goals, frost giants, and more

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Camelot Unchained posted a new update on its website last night. It describes another productive week on the crowdfunded RvR sandbox, and it confirms that...

GTA Online’s Lowriders patch gets a trailer

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Did you miss yesterday's announcement about Grand Theft Auto Online's forthcoming Lowriders patch? That's OK, because Rockstar has announced it again today, only this...

Leaderboard: Have you tried Albion Online?

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There's something about Albion Online that appeals to me. I like the top-down perspective and the stylized visuals, and of course I love the...

EVE Online plans to let players buy and sell skillpoints

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EVE Online has always been pretty unique in the MMO genre, not least of all due to its time-based skill training system. Instead of...

Albion is getting a tie-in novel and a lore revamp

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Sandbox Interactive posted a lore blurb about Albion this week. The piece highlights an NPC faction called the Royal Expeditionary Forces, which the devs...

Bossa Studios boss on Worlds Adrift’s business model, PvP, and more

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I've been keeping one eye on Worlds Adrift for several months now, as many of the concepts put forth by developer Bossa Studios are...

Nexon and NCsoft part ways

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After a turbulent partnership, MMO companies Nexon and NCsoft have finally parted ways. Nexon sold its 15.08% of shares back to NCsoft today, ending the two...

Star Citizen publishes a starmap Q&A

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Cloud Imperium has published the first part of a Q&A session with the designers behind Star Citizen's starmap. Last weekend's CitizenCon saw the first...