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Crowfall is spicing up its maps with ‘adventure parcels’

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The maps in Crowfall are assembled in a combination of procedural and hand-crafted generation. Individual bits are hand-crafted, but the maps as a whole...
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Chronicles of Elyria zips past $3.5M in crowdfunding, lays out plans for new year

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Thanks in part to the recent "The Free Kingdom of Elyria" promotion, Chronicles of Elyria has shot past three-and-a-half million dollars in crowdfunding raised...

Star Citizen developer Cloud Imperium files motion to dismiss Crytek copyright lawsuit

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The bombshell of December 2017 was the news that Crytek was suing Cloud Imperium Games and Roberts Space Industries, the companies behind the sprawling and...
IT BURNS!

Guild Wars 2 is hiring a writer and narrative designer

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We regret to inform you that while ArenaNet is definitely hiring a Writer / Narrative Designer for Guild Wars 2, it is also a...

Amazon’s New World video possibly leaked, New World Amazon page has vanished

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A short, anonymous video posted to the New World subreddit has the community buzzing that this might be an authentic leak from the secretive...

MMO Week in Review: The latest studio to enter the battle royale (January 7, 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! While...

The best SMITE and Paladins cosplay at Hi-Rez Expo 2018

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While the bulk of Hi-Rez Expo 2018 is taken up with the various tournaments, the fans have their own contest open to them: Welcome...
Theoretically there's a non-jerk version of this out there, but...

ASUS throws its weight behind League of Legends in China

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Battle royale? Team shooters? League of Legends scoffs at these pretenders to the online throne, sitting on top of an e-sports empire that spans...
Lady guns are so complicated

Escape from Tarkov makes final preparations for its open beta

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Don't get too comfortable, because the real war is about to begin. Right now, Escape from Tarkov's development team is in the final stage...

Eternal Lands is the fantasy MMO that’s flown under your radar for over a decade

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One of the best things about the Massively OP community is that our readers often point us toward MMOs that we never knew existed....

Make My MMO: Star Citizen’s new website and private concierge event (January 6, 2018)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen devs gave a first look at game's brand-new website, which is due to launch later in January. It's...

Camelot Unchained is in the middle of a big hiring push ahead of beta one

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Camelot Unchained has been teasing a slew of big announcements coming over the next few weeks, and finally one of them is here. No,...

Raph Koster on MMO ecosystems, the balance of power, and tennis

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Most MMORPGs have the core sandbox problem: Whoever gets there first, controls all the toys and has the power to drive everyone else away....
I cannot adequately express how much cleaner these screenshots look than my actual play experience.

Richard Garriott on how players ‘destroyed’ Ultima Online’s ecology

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With a couple of months to go before its official launch, Shroud of the Avatar has more than a few challenges to overcome to...
And the cycle continues.

Betawatch: A new year, a new closed beta (January 5, 2018)

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Here we are, in the untamed wilderness of 2018! It feels a lot like 2017 so far, except that it's a year later. Also,...

TERA doubles and triples rewards this weekend

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You know how parts of the inhabited world are freezing into a solid mass of glacial ice this week? That is all the excuse...

Antaria Online is the small and quirky MMO to brighten your day

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Looking for a relaxing, colorful, and winsome MMORPG to while away the dark winter nights? You might want to check out Antaria Online, a...

Fractured shows off 14 schools of combat in first gameplay footage

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While Fractured, the dynamic fantasy sandbox MMO, has been sporadic with its development blogs, when they do arrive, you can be assured that they...

EVE Online sunsets legacy APIs, delivers December economic report, and talks next week’s patch

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May 8th, 2018. This date is important for players and community developers who are using older versions of EVE Online's API, as those legacy...
I suppose this is a problem I'm happy to complain about.

World of Warcraft’s allied races are an account-wide unlock — and here’s how you can get them

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With Battle for Azeroth a ways down the road for antsy World of Warcraft fans, a lot of attention from the community has settled...