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Star Citizen adds unmelt tool, will be tweaking it further

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Star Citizen backers who have been living with remorse over scrapping a ship or package now have a way to undo that terrible mistake...
Thus does the sun soon set.

Dogma: Eternal Night nears the end of its Kickstarter campaign

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The sun is setting on the Kickstarter campaign for vampire-themepark Dogma: Eternal Night, and at the time of this writing, the future doesn't look particularly...

MMO Week in Review: Star Citizen, Elite make sci-fi games cool again (December 20, 2015)

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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! What...
Unbreaking what we screwed up forever.

Tribes: Ascend creative director: ‘We made a lot of mistakes in a lot of different places’

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The history of Tribes: Ascend is a strange one. Like the first few titles out of Hi-Rez Studios, it launched to decent reception, had...

The MOP Up: RuneScape’s big anniversary plans (December 20, 2015)

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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...

LOTRO invites all to enjoy the warmth of its Yule Festival

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Middle-earth's Winter-home is once again open for merriment and questing, as Lord of the Rings Online has brought back its Yule Festival for another...

Project Gorgon explains Steam delay

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Earlier this year, Project Gorgon said that it would be releasing on Steam early access by the end of 2015. This isn't going to...

Crowfall comic continues to tease ‘big reveal’

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Back in November, ArtCraft promised that it would soon be revealing a significant design element for Crowfall that would "require a shift in the...
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Make My MMO: Elite’s new Horizons (December 19, 2015)

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Elite: Dangerous launched the first chunk of its planned Horizons campaign, Albion Online celebrated 60,000 founders, and Ultima Online...

Maplestory 2 gets Chinese publisher, shows off Rune Blader class

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MapleStory 2 looks to be quite the different beast than MapleStory, most notably with its 3-D cube-dominated visual style. Hey, what can you say?...

Valiance Online roots for City of Titans

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Valiance Online doesn't see itself in direct competition with City of Titans for the throne of City of Heroes spiritual succession. How do we...

Overwatch’s theatrical teaser will give you goosebumps

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"We are hope. We are honor. We are courage. We are justice. We are compassion. We are determination. We are harmony. We are Overwatch!" Thus...

Guild Wars 2 teases world-vs.-world tweaks

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ArenaNet offered Guild Wars 2 world-vs.-world fans an early Christmas present this evening in the form of a sneak-peek at a set of changes...
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Betawatch: WoW Legion takes a holiday break (December 18th, 2015)

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If you're really in love with the current PvP experience in World of Warcraft... oh, whom am I kidding? Pretty much no one is...

Wild Terra looks back at its first year of alpha

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A year can make a massive difference for an MMO, especially one in development. The upcoming sandbox Wild Terra took a short breather this...

Albion Online talks about its novel and community feedback patch

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As the year wraps up, Albion Online continues to handle several irons in its alpha fire. One of these is release of a community...

Log into Marvel Heroes and get free stuff over Christmas

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Marvel Heroes is no stranger to rocking a Christmas event, and this year's is going to last 14 days. Starting today, you can log...

Elite: Dangerous offers training vids, support for Star Citizen

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Elite: Dangerous is busy celebrating the launch of Horizons this week, but if you've never played before, you could probably use some training, and...

Watch 100 naked H1Z1 players take on an elite strike team

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As part of Daybreak's ongoing H1Z1 Showdown festivities, Twitch broadcaster CDNThe3rd recently hosted an amusing H1Z1 Battle Royale match that pitted a hardcore team...

Hell freezes over in Devilian

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You heard it here first, folks: Hell has frozen over in Devilian. The MMOARPG has triggered its first seasonal event, Hell Freeze, in which meanie...