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Star Citizen players grumble over warbonds, insurance, and the latest concept ship promotion

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Last week, Cloud Imperium began teasing a brand-new concept ship for Star Citizen, the Hercules Starlifter and its variants. While most gamers will roll...
Batty.

Project Gorgon lets players get more stabby, enlists them into the clergy

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If you've been missing meaty dev blogs from the Project Gorgon team, then turn that frown upside-down: There's a massive new article up about...
She has ideas.

MMO Week in Review: Star Trek Online is going free-to-play, again (May 6, 2018)

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Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review! There...

Two new battalions march into the Civil War MMO War of Rights

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The conflict between the North and the South continues to escalate as both the 5th Alabama and 87th Ohio battalions join War of Rights...

The MOP Up: Battlerite royale (May 6, 2018)

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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...

Vantage throws players into a primitive survival situation

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We're no tiger experts or anything, but from a careful analysis of the above picture, we're going to say that guy is not long...

Make My MMO: Camelot Unchained’s Physician, Pantropy’s second Kickstarter’s a charm (May 5, 2018)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Pantropy may happen this time! Its second attempt at a Kickstarter has raised over three times its ask so far...

E-sports roundup: Riot and UC Berkeley, Hi-Rez’s varsity league, UK collegiate e-sports, cash for Averett e-sports

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Still don't think we should take e-sports seriously? Doesn't even matter because it's happening anyway. To wit: Riot Games has partnered with UC Berkeley to...

Bless Online shows off the Paladin’s healing abilities in new video

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Bless Online's YouTube channel may have inexplicably deleted itself last week, but that doesn't mean the team has stopped putting out videos. "In addition to...
The path was found after all.

Whatever happened to Line of Defense, The Exiled, and Pathfinder Online?

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Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, “Whatever happened to that game?” With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it’s surprisingly easy...
Bye.

Star Trek Online is discontinuing monthly subscription purchases

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There's a business model shift taking place for Star Trek Online, although you could argue it's a somewhat lateral shift. The game will no...
going nowhere, going nowhere

Sea of Thieves straddles the line between solo and group play

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As a "shared world adventure game," Sea of Thieves has a vested interest in promoting its multiplayer setting and encouraging players to partake in...

Dauntless hauls out its ‘biggest and most impactful’ patch to date

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Dauntless isn't a game that does things in a small way, from its fearsome behemoth foes to the patches it delivers. And with Closed...

Destiny 2 wants you back for Warmind, Humble Bundle has the game for a song right now

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"Warmind is the start of a new conversation. It's a step forward in the direction we want to start taking Destiny 2." There's a lot...

EverQuest II streamlines its item examine window in GU106, Seeds of Vengeance

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If you've ever taken a look at an item tooltip in EverQuest II and had the distinct impression that you were being prepared for...
Ping.

Radical Heights patches in a new scanner and new customization

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Where are your enemies in Radical Heights? Considering the fact that it's a battle royale game, they're everywhere. But the latest patch adds in...
Can I play this?

Blade & Soul is tweaking dungeon rewards to prefer newer dungeons

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Stop just doing the old, familiar dungeons of Blade & Soul. Do the new ones instead. Even if you'd rather not for whatever reason,...
Yay?

Warcraft movie props are being auctioned off on May 14

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If you have a few hundred dollars to burn and are eager to get World of Warcraft-esque movie props in your home, you're in...
Sure, explosions are great, but have you ever looked at graphs.

EVE Online prepares major conversion of player outposts and conquerable stations

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As Brendan detailed in his EVE Fanfest coverage last month, EVE Online's structures are due for a huge overhaul, be they NPC fortification or...
Good news, this isn't bad as it looks!

Activision-Blizzard talks battle royale and saving Destiny 2 as stock slowly recovers after Dow Jones snafu

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Yesterday we teased ActiBlizz for putting out another boring quarterly financial report about its ever-growing piles of money, but even with World of Warcraft...

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