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Overwatch deals with trolls and smurfs

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The complex and often times toxic environment of Overwatch continues to make the popular team shooter a source of controversy and attention. Even Game...
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Sea of Thieves is getting a comic book treatment

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Every pirate needs some good reading material for those long ocean voyages, assuming that they can read. And now, for the literate and illiterate...

ARK Park has been delayed to spring 2018 for ‘polish and optimization’

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I'm afraid ARK Park, the virtual reality spin-off of ARK Survival Evolved led by Snail Games, is not going to make its planned December...
Remember when this was what we were taking about?

BioWare’s Anthem may have a virtual reality mode

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BioWare has been unusually quiet about its upcoming Destiny 2 killer, Anthem, since the title's initial announcement this past summer. And while nothing official...

Monster Hunter World’s cat-panda-people are too cute

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Did you check out Monster Hunter World when it ran its weekend test earlier this month? Might want to take a peek at the...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds moves over one million Xbox One units

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Two days, one million copies sold. It's just another record for PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' mantle. The battle royale shooter moved over a million units during the...

Survivalbox roundup: CSGO’s survival mode, Astroneer’s alpha, Osiris New Dawn’s Zer, and ARK’s Ragnarok

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Welcome back to another fast look at what the survivalboxes are up to! We've got tidbits from ARK, CSGO, Astroneer, and Osiris: New Dawn. First...
I can see you now!

Saga of Lucimia explains its new combat system and why you need a team to fight a bear

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Bears! Godless killing machines with mouths like rows of daggers, claws like differently arranged rows of daggers, and fur like particularly soft and non-painful...

Shroud of the Avatar is really truly launching on March 27, 2018

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If you're a Shroud of the Avatar player, you've just gotten the last major update of the year. Release 49 rolled out ahead of...

Wild Terra officially launches out of early access today

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It's a big day for Wild Terra, as the indie isometric sandbox we've been watching for years is officially launching today on Steam. No...
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Destiny 2 players find that equipment promising more loot provides no real change

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Saying that something "provides more loot" is a rather vague statement, but there are items in Destiny 2 that are entirely based around the...

Black Desert gets another Lahn trailer for its South Korean anniversary

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Remember when Pearl Abyss and Kakao dropped the first teasers for Lahn, the brand-new toon on the way to Black Desert? PA has a...

Anarchy Online might be considering a new fresh start server

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Sometimes all it takes to light a fire under a gaming community is a simple poll. Funcom sparked a bonfire of interest by asking fans...

Funcom gets $10.6M investment, signs deal to handle Conan and other RPG properties

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Funcom's not quite done with Conan just yet, not by a long shot. The Conan Exiles studio announced today that it has signed a deal...

MMO Week in Review: Crytek’s Star Citizen lawsuit (December 17, 2017)

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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! Never...

EVE Online has a galactic-sized economy dump for you

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Do you miss the feeling of being in school and staring, cross-eyed, at all sorts of graphs and charts in your classes? If so,...

The MOP Up: Wakfu climbs the Mineral Tower (December 17, 2017)

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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...

Extra Credits on how to win, lose, and measure gamer trust

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How does a "great series get driven into the ground," eroding player trust? That's precisely the subject tackled in a recent edition of the...

Make My MMO: The Star Citizen lawsuit and Camelot’s weed (December 16, 2017)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, eyebrows across the 'verse rose as Crytek filed a lawsuit alleging that the studios behind Star Citizen and Squadron...

Guild Wars 2 shares how it built its Hall of Chains raid

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If you've ever thought that creating MMO raids is easy, it would be educational to sit down with a developer and get a tall,...

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