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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...
Oh well.

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,...

Legends of Aria faces down closed beta testing

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Ultima Online spiritual successor Legends of Aria is preparing to go through a major transition over the new year as it winds down its...

Ashes of Creation has 64 class combinations for you to try out

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Now that Ashes of Creation is officially in its alpha testing, players will be able to discover for themselves what awaits in this interesting...
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Players discover Red Dead Redemption 2 pistols in GTA Online files

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Is Rockstar Games planting little Easter eggs in Grand Theft Auto Online for its upcoming multiplayer western? And are the two games connected? This seems...
At this point it's debatable if anything will come out of here.

Betawatch: Ashes of Creation testing is set for today (December 15, 2017)

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Who wants to play a guessing game? If you're an Ashes of Creation backer, you get to play one whether you answered yes or...
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Neverwinter’s Sword of Chult lands on console in January

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Hey consolers. What are you doing in January? Back to the grind, right? Not in Neverwinter: You're headed to the jungle in Swords of...

Saga of Lucimia’s devs shriek at spiders and bears

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With Saga of Lucimia's ninth pre-alpha test scheduled to run from December 22nd through January 5th, the team hopes that more fans will get...

Destiny 2 takes pity on non-Curse of Osiris owners, challenges players to snowball fights

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Those who have elected not to pick up Destiny 2's first DLC might have felt like they were being shut out of more progression...