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The MOP Up: A rebirth for Star Wars Galaxies

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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...

Here’s what happened with Star Citizen’s FPS module this week

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Cloud Imperium published its weekly look at Star Citizen's Star Marine FPS module progress earlier this weekend. Most of the week was spent fixing...

Camelot Unchained boss talks classes, new hires, and more

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Camelot Unchained's end-of-the-week update was published earlier this weekend. Head honcho Mark Jacobs revisited the big class presentation reveal, and explained that the RvR...
Make My MMO

Make My MMO: September 26, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Divergence Online continued to raise eyebrows. First, head honcho Ethan "Lord of Edge" Casner spoke with MOP regarding...

Albion upgrades its private islands, talks map-making

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Albion Online released a couple of dev updates this week. The first focused on private islands, and more specifically, how you can upgrade the...

ARK sums up its Survival of the Fittest tourney with a video

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Have you been following that month-long Survival of the Fittest tourney in ARK: Survival Evolved? If your answer is no, but I meant to,...

BioWare details SWTOR’s Consular and Inquisitor changes

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You can't have an MMO expansion without class changes, and Star Wars: The Old Republic's Knights of the Fallen Empire update is no exception....

PSA: Double XP is happening in RuneScape right now

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If you need a reason to log into RuneScape this weekend, how does double XP grab you? Jagex says that the majority of training...
Too bad, sword sad.

Betawatch: September 25th, 2015

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I really hope your plans for the immediate future didn't include playing the full retail release for Sword Coast Legends, because the game's launch...

Black Desert teases the awakening weapon system

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Weapon choice, or lack thereof, is one MMO topic that doesn't seem to come up very much. Some games allow players to select from...

TwitchCon 2015: Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns trailer; the Ranger’s Druid is a healer

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ArenaNet is debuting its Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns trailer today at 6 p.m. EDT on the main stage at TwitchCon. So far today,...

Funcom’s The Park shows off a trio of creepy screenshots

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Funcom released a trio of new screenshots today for The Park, the upcoming Secret World single-player spin-off that's slated for release next month. The...

Leaderboard: Synth vs. orchestra for space MMOs

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Earlier this week we got a taste of Pedro Camacho's orchestral score for Star Citizen. I loved it, but I've also been putting together my...

Elite’s planetary landings to add ‘new activities, new enemies,’ and more

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It was a big week for fans of Elite: Dangerous, as Frontier called attention to a bunch of stuff that's in the works and talked...

Want to see 10 minutes of SWTOR cutscene spoilers? This is your post!

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Ready for some Knights of the Fallen Empire spoilers? Gamespot has them in a new Star Wars: The Old Republic video published earlier today....

Riot is working on something besides League of Legends

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League of Legends developer Riot has been a one-trick pony thus far, but that may change over the next little while according to the...
Not the tentacles please.

How Skyforge’s latest patch has reworked guilds

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Some of the changes made to pantheons with the most recent Skyforge update are the result of systems just not working. The clan system...

Ultima Online celebrates 18th birthday, plans October 8th expansion launch

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Here's a quick way to feel old: As of today, Ultima Online is old enough to vote. In celebration of its 18th birthday, Broadsword thanked players...

PlanetSide 2 may give players a continent to settle

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The future of PlanetSide 2 is racing toward the community at a rapid pace according to a new developer Q&A that was hosted on Reddit yesterday. One...
Play ALL the people.

WildStar’s official F2P transition checklist

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WildStar is going to be free-to-play in less than a week now. If you've already been playing the game, your path to get ready...