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Lowriders and lift hydraulics are coming to GTA Online next week

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Next week's Grand Theft Auto Online update is all about adding some bounce to your vehicle, literally. The Lowrider patch will include lift hydraulics,...

Now you can breed baby dinos in ARK

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Studio Wildcard has pushed the first pass of breeding and baby dinosaurs into its live build of ARK: Survival Evolved. Players may pair off two members...

Skyforge’s Law and Order event starts today

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Skyforge has announced a new event called Law and Order that begins today and runs through October 28th. It pits players against criminals and...

PSA: The Crew is discounted on Steam right now

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Yesterday I implored the MOP chat room to talk me out of purchasing The Crew. Thankfully they did, because today it's on sale via Steam. Strangely,...

Overwatch’s beta starts on October 27

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Blizzard has announced that Overwatch's beta will begin on October 27th. The company is dividing testers into two groups: a closed beta crew and...

ArcheAge has been live for 1,000 days in Korea; here’s a trailer

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ArcheAge recently celebrated its 1,000th day as a live game in Korea. Developer XLGAMES published a trailer to mark the occasion, which is pretty slick...

Elite Lord of Alliance is in beta as of today

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Elite Lord of Alliance, or ELOA if you'd prefer, has begun its initial beta test. Webzen sent out a press release earlier today that...

Stick and Rudder: The best bits of Star CitizenCon 2015

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Wow, so, where to start with this week's Stick and Rudder? I guess I picked the wrong time for a vacation, and shame on...

Overwatch debuts on Twitch this week

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Curious about Overwatch? If so, you'll probably want to watch Blizzard's Twitch channel on Thursday, October 15th. The studio will air 90 minutes of...

The Crew’s expansion to feature monthly tourney, player-created missions

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The Crew's first expansion is coming on November 17th, and Ubisoft has dropped a looooong post on its website that examines the various feature-adds....

Not So Massively: Star Citizen’s map is amazing (October 12, 2015)

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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...

You can kill people with trees in Worlds Adrift

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Bossa Studios' new Worlds Adrift title already seemed rather ambitious. With a recent dev blog, though, the studio admitted to the lofty goal of...

Skyforge is getting additional PvP modes at some point

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Skyforge North American producer Aaron "Legatus" Biedma has penned a new producer letter that's posted on the game's official website. Biedma says that he...
It, uh... works?

Ub3rgames wants to reboot classic Darkfall

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The long and checkered history of Darkfall has taken an interesting turn thanks to Darkfall: New Dawn, a project that aims to reboot the...
In the grim darkness of whatever, blah blah explosions.

Eternal Crusade’s alpha is meant as a dry run of the live experience

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Are you of the mind that Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade jumped into alpha a little bit too early? A new state of the game...

Daybreak’s Jens Andersen says PlanetSide 2 ‘is really struggling’

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Daybreak Executive Creative Director Jens Andersen admitted on Reddit that PlanetSide 2 isn't doing as well as it should: "The game is really struggling, and...

Funcom asks bondholders to defer company debts

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As we've reported previously, Funcom's financials aren't in the best of shape, and as of this morning, the company is appealing to its bondholders to lend a hand...

The Daily Grind: Are you going to play Squadron 42?

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A whole bunch of Star Citizen-related stuff happened this past weekend, and I've got a lot of catching up to do since I missed...

The MOP Up: Skyforge’s new raid (October 11, 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...

MMO Mechanics: Three ways non-MMO IPs could create great mechanics

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I really enjoy being a guest on Larry Everett's video series Massively Opinionated, a series in which MMO enthusiasts answer some tough questions and...