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Get a bird’s eye view of LOTRO’s new Mirkwood map

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Sometimes you can learn an awful lot from an in-game map. Take for example Lord of the Rings Online's Northern Mirkwood map, which testers have...

EVE Online is shuttering EVE Voice in March

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More chunks of EVE Online are on the chopping block this week, as CCP announced today that it's sunsetting EVE Voice with the March...
Very nice, how much.

Elder Scrolls Online dataminers spoil the heck out of the upcoming chapter

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Ever since ZeniMax promised a new expansion-scale chapter for The Elder Scrolls Online this year, dataminers have been champing at the bit to be...

Elite Dangerous’ Beyond – Chapter One launches next week – here’s the trailer

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We're just a week away from the launch of Elite Dangerous: Beyond - Chapter One, that fascinating space abomination of colons and dashes! Frontier...
Yeah, great work.

Secret World Legends shows off its new Agent system in brief

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If you're eagerly awaiting new missions to run in Secret World Legends, you're going to have to keep waiting a bit longer. But you...

World of Warcraft player dings level 60 on boars alone

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A triumphant expression of the human spirit or a sad attempt to provide meaning in a content-mined world? You can decide where this story...

Prosperous Universe liberally borrows from Facebook for one of its systems

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With so much going on while you attempt to manage your own space economic empire, you're going to need a little help to stay...
Why do they both have different ears, though.

Wakfu targets the Huppermage for its next update

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One of the hardest things to change in game design are elements that work but could be working better. The Huppermage in Wakfu serves...
That's not a doll, guy.

Final Fantasy XI brings back its annual doll festival

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For the many Japanese players of Final Fantasy XI, the annual doll festival feels entirely familiar and normal. For most of the international players,...

Catching up with the Ultima Nostalgia project that’s rebuilding Ultima Online in Wurm

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If you found last week's community discussion on whether (good) bots could help save dying MMORPGs fascinating, then the video hereunder will suit you...
Bang.

Path of Exile video highlights upcoming Spectral Shield Throw skill

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One of the new skill gems introduced for Path of Exile's upcoming Bestiary update is Spectral Shield Throw. With this, players can throw the...

Dark Age of Camelot lays out the groundwork for new and more frequent RvR events

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Another week, another grab bag community Q&A with the Dark Age of Camelot development team. This edition's pressing issue was the promise of more...
It's FINE it's ALL FINE

EVE Online balances ships and adds the Monitor to its March patch

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Even if you're not familiar with how battles work in EVE Online you can probably still guess at what "headshotting" means for the game's...
I have to be wasted for this.

Identity gameplay video demos your Breaking Bad fantasy

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The central tenant of Identity's concept is that this isn't going to be your run-of-the-mill combat MMO, but a life simulator that will let...

Shroud of the Avatar gives its shopkeepers a Victorian makeover

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One fact you may not know about Shroud of the Avatar is that it allows players to stock and operate their own virtual shopkeepers...
See, it's always dark and you need to have someone carrying a torch instead of fighting, and wait, come back.

Indie MMORPG Saga of Lucimia embraces gated content

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You should probably not be terribly surprised to hear that Saga of Lucimia, an upcoming MMO that is staking a claim on the hard-as-nails...

Analysts see ‘potential for earnings growth’ in NCsoft’s trio of upcoming titles

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If you walked away confused by NCsoft's most recent quarterly financial report, Mirae Asset Daewoo Co. might be able to sort it out for...

MMO Week in Review: Elder Scrolls Online’s cash shop controversy (February 18, 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! Elder...

The MOP Up: FFXIV’s Eorzean Symphony (February 18, 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...
Cool, well, screaming forever now.

Neverwinter details the creation of the Atropal boss

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The Atropal boss in Neverwinter is not something you want to run into in a dark alley. Heck, it's probably not something you want...