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Gloria Victis’ latest patch introduces proper crop farming and camping placeables

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This past weekend, Gloria Victis received what it's calling one of its biggest updates ever; specifically, it allows players to add interactive objects to...

Play as a spider or dragon in Trials of Ascension: Exile’s early access

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While we may only faintly remember Trials of Ascension: Exile for a pair of failed Kickstarter campaigns back in 2015, the hardcore fantasy sandbox...
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Final Fantasy XIV prepares for the Moonfire Faire and the Feast championships

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The summer is at least theoretically waning, and that means it's time for Final Fantasy XIV's annual summer event, the Moonfire Faire. That, of...

Niantic isn’t ready quite yet to talk about Harry Potter: Wizards Unite

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Potterheads got all kinds of excited about last November's announcement of a Pokemon Go-style ARG called Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (heck, so did we!)....
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Epic’s Tim Sweeney argues that Fortnite won’t be on the play store because of openness

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Did you think that Fortnite's announced decision to avoid the Google Play store was just about money? Just because, you know, that was one...
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How Glitch’s creator kept pulling successes from his online game failures

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NPR recently did an interview with Slack and Flickr creator Stewart Butterfield as part of its series on innovators and entrepreneurs. Butterfield's drive to create...
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Trove is adding 162 player-designed wearables in tomorrow’s update

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Trove is gearing up for what it's calling a major quality-of-life update tomorrow. Bomber royale - that's the voxelbox's battle royale mode - is...
Oh, so many trials.

Pathfinder Online promises free trial, open enrollment, and a marketing push

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About nine people showed up at a GenCon Pathfinder Online panel this past weekend, during which Paizo CEO Lisa Stevens gave an update on...

CCP reveals EVE Online: Infinite Galaxy

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EVE Online's mobile game now has an official title (sort of)! At ChinaJoy this month, CCP revealed the trailer for EVE Online: Infinite Galaxy,...

World of Warcraft sparks world tree memes, tours Tiragarde Sound

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With a week to go until Battle for Azeroth releases, players are running out of time to bone up on all of the features...

The 22-year-old Meridian 59 heads to Steam

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One of the MMORPG genre's longest-running titles is finally making the jump to Steam in the hopes of picking up a new generation of...
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MMO Week in Review: Only you can prevent forest fires (August 5, 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! Proving...

EVE Evolved: A furious supercapital war is raging in EVE Online

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This year kicked off with a bang for EVE Online as rumblings emerged of impending war on a scale that the gaming world had...

The MOP Up: PlanetSide 2 throws a summer rager (August 5, 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...
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Player-designed document combines Dungeons & Dragons with Destiny

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Want to play some Destiny or Destiny 2 material sitting around a table with friends? Then you will want to check out the D&Destiny...

Make My MMO: Star Citizen, Camelot, Codename Reality, and EverFeud (August 5, 2018)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen did some just Star Citizen things as fans raised a pay-to-win stink over CIG's lifting of the...
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Albion Online’s shift away from mobile was a matter of market forces

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If you remember a lot of the early marketing for Albion Online, it focused quite heavily on how the game was going to feature...

Bless Online’s latest community video goes into depth on the Assassin update

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Things might be looking up... well, less down for the beleaguered Bless Online, as Neowiz says that both server consolidation and bug fixes are...

Chronicles of Elyria gets players to shape the world through a plague

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Chronicles of Elyria's biggest community event yet looks to change the very face of this developing MMO -- but there's a good chance that...

Bare shoulders mark a spreading World of Warcraft protest

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If Blizzard was looking to manipulate the World of Warcraft community into caring about this MMO prior to the expansion launch later this month,...