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RIFT community manager: ‘RIFT is in zero danger’

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The health of a game is always important to the players; no one wants to make a home that's going to be shut down...

MMO Week in Review: Blizzard likes your money after all (August 2, 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! I...

The MOP Up: Evil Island edition

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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...

Project Gorgon might not wipe before launch, adds Dwarf stretch goal

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Big things are afoot for the Project Gorgon Kickstarter. The campaign, which passed its $20,000 crowdfunding goal this past Friday, put up two new...
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Make My MMO: August 1, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Project Gorgon met its Kickstarter goal with over 23 days to spare. The fantasy sandpark benefited from some...

Borderlands Online promises three-month patch cycle

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One of the nice things about being an MMO successor to a hit series of shooter titles is that you can draw from and...

Worlds Adrift team shows off gliders, cameras, and more

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Bossa Studios has published a new Worlds Adrift video focused on some additional gameplay features cooked up during a recent jam session. The new stuff...

Log into Trove this weekend for a free class coin and 3,000 cubits

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In case you missed it earlier this week, Trion is doing a few things to compensate Trove players for the downtime that's plagued the free-to-play...
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Betawatch: July 31st, 2015

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I'm not going to pretend to fully understand why people are super excited about Tree of Savior, but I'm still very happy that the...

Meet the Oceanides, Skyforge’s main aquatic threat

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When I was a kid I used to go out with my grandfather on his fishing expeditions out in the Gulf of Mexico. What...

Camelot Unchained wants stealth but not the sucky kind

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Today's Camelot Unchained update is a long one, and that's because Mark Jacobs has a lot to cover. He talks about everything from backer...

Check into H1Z1’s upcoming hospital

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Although H1Z1 is deep in clean up mode, that doesn't mean forward progress isn't still being made. Producer Steve George and Senior Game Designer...

How to get Ultima Online’s Time of Legends expansion for a song

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Ultima Online's Time of Legends expansion is on the way, just in time for the venerable MMO's 18th birthday in September. And if you're...

NCsoft Q2 2015: Guild Wars 2 is up, WildStar is down

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NCsoft has published its second quarter 2015 financial report, and it's basically a repeat of quarter one. The company attributes its quarter-over-quarter and year-over-year boosts primarily...
No top guns here.

Co-op will be limited in Star Citizen’s Squadron 42 [Updated]

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Do you love debating over semantics and unstated intent? Because you're going to have a field day with this one. The original Kickstarter page...

Time-travel through RIFT in the latest Nightmare Saga publish

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The second act of RIFT's new Nightmare Saga has gone live, and this time the game is taking players on a trip through time...

Project Gorgon nears funding goal, reveals new races [Updated]

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It's looking good for the imaginative Project Gorgon, as it has nearly reached its current Kickstarter crowdfunding goal after two past failed campaigns. The...

Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns’ first public beta weekend begins August 7th

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How about some Guild Wars 2 news to justify the fact that you're awake at the crack of dawn for this Gamescom embargo lift? Yeah! ArenaNet...

Get a sneak peek of ArcheAge’s 2.0 patch notes

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Curious what ArcheAge patch 2.0 will look like when it finally arrives later this summer? One helpful fan has translated the Russian patch notes...

Heroes of the Storm bribes players to try it out

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Is this the summer of Heroes of the Storm? Blizzard would really like it to be, as the studio is not above a little...