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LOTRO’s new datacenter causes login headaches

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Lord of the Rings Online's move to its new datacenter yesterday triggered a few significant issues that were unseen by the dev team before...

Catch up with SMITE’s $1,000,000 world championship

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The world of e-sports and competitive gaming has seen a massive explosion in recent years in terms of both viewership and prize money. Top competitive...

Final Fantasy XIV releases full Heavensward soundtrack next month

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Final Fantasy XIV's soundtrack has been often cited as a favorite element of the MMO and has grown significantly since its initial 1.0 release....

RuneScape classic reopens for 15th anniversary

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In honor of RuneScape's 15th anniversary, Jagex Games Studio is letting more players experience the world as it was way back when. Current RuneScape players...

Black Desert’s Ranger is gorgeous and deadly in melee

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Daum Games has this afternoon released a trailer and info for Black Desert's Ranger -- specifically, the Ranger's melee skills. The Ranger's ranged skills...

Trove’s most creative player-made PvP arenas

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Back in December, Trion Worlds patched PvP into its cutesy voxelbox Trove as part of the Battleverse patch. The idea was that players would...

EVE Online starts CSM process earlier this year

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Because of when EVE Online's Fanfest is happening this year, the election process for the game's Council of Stellar Management has started earlier than in...
Blinded by the X.

Buffs and nerfs are coming for Guild Wars 2’s classes

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ArenaNet's Karl McLain has a new Guild Wars 2 blog post today focused on the "high-level changes" on the way for the game's classes....
DCUO

DCUO launches on Xbox One this spring

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During its DC Universe Online's fifth anniversary stream this afternoon, Daybreak announced that the superhero MMORPG is launching on Xbox One this spring. https://twitter.com/DaybreakGames/status/686635498954186752 The game...

Be a guitar hero with Maplestory 2’s new instruments

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MapleStory 2 fans can now rock around the clock thanks to the gifting of new guitars and pianos to players. And there's no need...
Next on the skill list, Subduction.

Path of Exile shows off the Earthquake skill for big melee hits

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When Path of Exile launches its Ascendancy expansion, your character builds will have new skills to play with, and many of those new skills...
Sometimes you even get some cool stuff!

SWTOR runs January events to make up for December’s problems

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There were a lot of events planned for Star Wars: The Old Republic in December. Sure, they were the game's usual repeating events, but...

Shroud of the Avatar’s alpha testing is ‘on the horizon’

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Alpha testing for Richard Garriott's Shroud of the Avatar is "on the horizon," says a newsletter published for followers this past weekend. It's been in...

Ninelives welcomes you to explore its darkly mysterious world

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Have you heard of this game called Ninelives? It's recently started to gain some recognition with the start of its open alpha test, even...
Well, I saw that.

Black Desert makes the world boss Desert Dragon even more boss

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The Desert Dragon world boss in Black Desert was indisputably exactly what it said on the tin. It was a dragon, and it was...

Worlds Adrift gears up for an exciting 2016

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The dev team over at Worlds Adrift is emerging from the holiday season on fire to make 2016 a great year for the fantastical...
The world is full of dangerous stuff. Survive it all by not being there.

Revival plots the course of cartography

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If you have a lifelong vendetta against all things cartographical, be prepared for a lot of stumbling around while lost in Revival. The latest...
Put these in a room.

MMO Week in Review: Marvel Heroes is getting a new CEO (January 10, 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! This...

The MOP Up: Age of Wushu Dynasty launches (January 10, 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...
Ah, this was handled capably.

DC Universe Online makes fifth anniversary plans

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Daybreak's DC Universe Online is about to turn five years old, believe it or not, and the studio is planning a pair of streams...