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Star Citizen promises larger server capacity, talks about procedural tech

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Seventy-seven episodes in, you'd think that Chris Roberts and the Star Citizen community would run out of questions about the game. But it looks...
Robot rock.

Check out footage of the Figureheads Online pre-open beta testing

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There's still no official announcement about Figureheads being localized in English, but Square-Enix's upcoming third-person mech-based shooter does have English localization files in its...

Chronicles of Elyria eyes May for its Kickstarter campaign, posts new footage

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While it once started as a very small and inexpensive indie project, Chronicles of Elyria has grown over the past two years to the...
Black Desert

The Daily Grind: If an MMO has a cash shop, when should it launch?

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Massively OP reader Leiloni pointed out to us something unusual about Black Desert: Its much-talked-about cash shop wasn't originally going to open until March 10th,...
Well done, lads.

The Culling runs through its closed alpha test

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The Culling, that Hunger Games-inspired multiplayer deathmatch game, is currently in the thick of its closed alpha test. A "select number of participants" pulled...

Shroud of the Avatar brings in fast travel and new player towns

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More and more these days Shroud of the Avatar is looking like a whole game. It probably helps that the game seems to update...

RuneScape’s DarkScape will sunset in March

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Jagex is retiring RuneScape's DarkScape "experiment" at the end of March. "DarkScape offered an intriguing twist on the traditional RuneScape gameplay, and the experimental mode...

Marvel at The Division’s PC visual tech at work

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One element that's attracted some to The Division is its level of attention to detail and its visual mastery that's making this post-apocalyptic New...

PSA: Celebrate Leap Day in Marvel Heroes with a free pet and bonus XP

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Leap Day comes only once ever four years, and Marvel Heroes is celebrating by giving out free frogs and gratuitous amounts of XP. And...

Perfect World’s Arc platform now offers its own daily quests

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Perfect World's Arc platform is getting a big facelift, which is good news for anyone confused by the old layout and navigation, but the...
I can see I'm going blind.

MMORPGs celebrate The Revenant’s Oscars

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If your MMORPG has a Revenant class, you'd best not be missing the opportunity to plug it today, as the movie celebrates its three...

Elder Scrolls Online DLC adds loot NPC, reinstates RvR forward camps

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ZeniMax has a few last bits of PvP info to push out before The Elder Scrolls Online's Thieves Guild DLC goes live in March. Of...
Ice cold.

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s patch 3.2 is a return to form

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I've expressed my misgivings about Final Fantasy XIV's first major post-expansion patch before. It wasn't terrible, but it didn't really hook me in like...

How player healers will cure disease and set bones in Revival

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In my very first MMORPG, I was obsessed with the idea of becoming a healer -- not someone who cast healing spells but someone...

Daum compensates Black Desert players for headstart server mixup

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A goof-up on the Black Desert headstart servers over the weekend saw some North American players unintentionally placed on the wrong servers, and Daum...

Eight tips for success in Epic’s MOBA Paragon

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Nobody ever claimed that MOBAs were easy to comprehend in full. Sure, you can get in and start playing relatively quickly, but to truly...
Combat attire: you're doing it wrong.

MMO Week in Review: Black Desert’s headstart is here (February 28, 2016)

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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! As...
Top gear indeed.

Allods Online explains gearing changes for the New Order update

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The New Order hitting Allods Online is going to be changing how players acquire gear in a big way, and it's going to be...

Elite Dangerous contemplates allowing players to name star systems

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It's one thing to make a great cosmic discovery that puts you in the history books. But wouldn't you like to name that star,...

The MOP Up: Top raiding guild quits World of Warcraft (February 28, 2016)

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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...