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Bethsoft: Dodgy reseller lawsuits, new media review policies, and Legends crossplay ultimata

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Today in why we can't have nice things, it appears that Bethsoft is using its legal weight to crack down on folks selling fully...

Black Desert’s remastered edition looks and sounds amazing

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Black Desert fans have a good reason to be excited -- after all, when was the last time that the MMO you played got...
Answer a question, Todd.

Fallout 76 reveals more about perks, PvP, and proprietary platforms

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This past weekend was a treasure trove of information for fans of Fallout 76. Bethesda ran some panels and Q&A discussions at QuakeCon, giving...
I'm on a boat.

World of Warcraft quietly disables the group finder auto-accept on the eve of Battle for Azeroth

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Happy Battle for Azeroth Day, everyone! Starting tonight, World of Warcraft's newest expansion will release globally and players will evacuate the Broken Isles en...

MMO Week in Review: Absurdly hyped for Torchlight Frontiers (August 12, 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! Gotta...

Kingdoms of Marazia offers simple-looking but cutthroat multiplayer real-time strategy

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It seems so long ago that we lived in the halcyon days of real-time strategy dominance in the PC market. Remember when Command and...

The MOP Up: Worlds Adrift makes room for PvE servers (August 12, 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...

Survival sandbox Scum hits Steam early access on August 29

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As a criminal who is trying to get out of the supermax system, you should probably know that nothing comes easily. So if you're...

Pearl Abyss sees hefty revenue bump thanks to Black Desert

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Pearl Abyss, the Korean developer of Black Desert, posted its Q2 2018 earnings report this past week, showing both significantly increased revenue and profits...

Take a peek at the development of Shroud of the Avatar’s player-designed dungeon system

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Drama seems to plague Shroud of the Avatar, but if you can look past it, there's some fun innovation going on inside Portalarium in...
Heritage.

No, World of Warcraft’s warfronts won’t go live with Battle for Azeroth

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One of World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth's key features won't go live when the expansion launches this coming week. Blizzard announced players are...

Bless compensates for downtime, is 67% off this weekend

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Neowiz is decompressing from the rollout of this past week's Assassin update in Bless, which went... more or less OK. The studio said that...
Health deferred.

EVE Online overhauls a half-dozen ships and improves the starter experience

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You notice how other studios, rather than scrambling away from next Tuesday's World of Warcraft expansion release, seem to be trying to compete with...

Fallout 76 signs on Inon Zur for another musical tour of duty in the wasteland

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It's hard to imagine a Fallout game these days without the haunting and beautiful score of video game composer Inon Zur. Fortunately, players this...
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Crowfall shows off the behind-the-scenes magic of the Clusterizer

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As cool as it may sound, unless you're actually working on developing Crowfall, the odds are you will never see the Clusterizer in action....
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League of Legends Lead Designer Ghostcrawler moves to an unnamed project

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Let's play connect-the-dots today and see if we can see a picture forming over at Riot Games, shall we? Back in July, its co-founder...
Who's your daddy? People will ask. Be sure you know.

Final Fantasy XIV starts its anniversary fiction

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The in-game events will arrive later, but at this point it's as much of an event for Final Fantasy XIV to feature written fiction...

Star Wars Galaxies fans are working on an emulator for the game’s TCG

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I haven't been making any secret of how much fun I'm having in the Star Wars Galaxies Legends emulator (and thanks so much to...

Grab a free MU Legend 3-Day Platinum Service Ticket from Webzen and MOP in honor of the Steam launch

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Webzen's free-to-play MMORPG MU Legend landed on Steam this week alongside its Noria update, and to celebrate the launch on the new platform, the...
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Elder Scrolls Online drops Murkmire, Wolfhunter trailers, buffs subscriber benefits

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ZeniMax is dropping some good stuff at QuakeCon for players of The Elder Scrolls Online. If you're a dedicated subscriber, you're in for some...