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Elite Dangerous’ mission server change puts an end to board-flipping (but not table-flipping)

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Board-flippers, am I right? Yeah, unless you play Elite Dangerous, you probably have no idea what I'm talking about. Basically, if you don't like...

Ship of Heroes works on its diurnal cycle, builds out missions, and deals with poaching

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Yesterday, Heroic Games' Casey McGeever posted up the September to October milestones for Ship of Heroes, providing a bit of a roadmap for the...
Planted.

Seed discusses the natural biases of worldbuilding and interaction

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Here's a statement that should be rather uncontroversial but might be otherwise: You do not exist in a vacuum. The experiences that have shaped...
It'll be f

Chronicles of Elyria update shows off new art assets, progresses Searing Plague world event

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Soulbound Studios is getting crafty in the latest update for its in-development MMO Chronicles of Elyria, as it displays some of the newly created...

Lord of the Rings Online’s Harnkegger Games event list announced, music contest registration open

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Lord of the Rings Online's yearly Harnkegger Games are once again upon us, and the player organizers have released the list of this year's...

MMO Week in Review: Wow what a slow MMO news week am I right

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Remember like a year ago when we found out there was gonna be a new Lord of the Rings Online MMORPG? Oh. No, that...
Your approval fills me with shame.

Roblox secures another $150 million in funding

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Consider this your regularly scheduled reminder that Roblox makes money and also serves as an attractive investment for making more money. Yes, the company...

The MOP Up: Champions Online’s month-long anniversary bash (September 9, 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...

EVE Evolved: What could the sale of CCP Games mean for EVE Online?

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Just a few days ago, we awoke to news so unexpected that it made me check I hadn't time-traveled to April 1st: EVE Online...
ride eternal shiny and chrome

Superdata has been bought by Nielsen

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You all remember SuperData, right? We cover a lot of their reports about industry performance and all of that fun stuff, because we obviously...
All according to keikaku or something

Make My MMO: Crowdfunding for Shroud of the Avatar’s comic and an injured dev (September 8, 2018)

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This week week in MMO crowdfunding, it's a minor miracle that anybody is paying any attention to Kickstarted games, what with all the mega...

Camelot Unchained discusses development of destructible deathmatch castle, new art assets

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Development on Camelot Unchained seems to be coming along nicely, and the folks at City State Entertainment have posted a new weekly update detailing...

New World interview covers sandbox design, hosting tech, combat, death, and more

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New World, Amazon's in-development MMO, has been something of a mystery until the last few weeks, but information is now coming out faster and...
At this point it's debatable if anything will come out of here.

Betawatch: Ashes of Creation furthers its alpha amidst a news bomb (September 7, 2018)

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So, uh, yeah. This week. You notice how the "breaking" box there is overstuffed with stories? That's because this week has just been crazy...
Sports is the same.

Overwatch League signs on six more teams for its 2019 season

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If Blizzard were to stop adding new things to Overwatch, it would die, like some sort of new content shark. That's already a known...
Less than conspiratorial

DragonCon 2018: Secret World Legends is finally getting a new scenario

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Since the inception of scenarios back in The Secret World, there has always been a promise of more to come. And now, that promise...

SoulWorker update adds new dungeons, quests, and class advancement

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Gameforge, in conjunction with developer Lion Games, has released a major new update for its post-apocalyptic anime-action MMO SoulWorker, adding a wealth of new...
whaaaaale

Riders of Icarus previews its upcoming Shadows of Turimnan update

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Riders of Icarus took to Twitter this week to announce that its next major content update Shadow of Turimnan will be coming soon, bringing...

Dual Universe AMA tackles questions about alpha testing, LUA scripting, combat, and more

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Novaquark, developer of upcoming voxel-based spacefaring MMO Dual Universe, has posted an AMA of all the questions asked by fans during Gamescom 2018. The...
stuff

Astroneer launches the crafting update with all the crafting you could ask for

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You have to add a lot of crafting to call a patch "the crafting update," but Astroneer is up to that challenge. The update...