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Scope out the Guild Wars 2 Dragonhunter summary

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You can't play a Dragonhunter Guardian in Guild Wars 2 right now no matter how much you might want to be wielding a bow...

Week in Review: WoW slips to 7.1M subs [May 10, 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! World...
Someone is excited, probably.

Heroes of the Storm prepares an arresting display of skins

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Nobody is going to accuse Heroes of the Storm of being tasteful and restrained, especially after seeing its newest batch of character skins. Not...

Bridges, stairs, and better boats coming soon to Wurm Online

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Trust us: You will never see anyone so excited over bridges as you will in this Wurm Online dev update post. To be fair,...
Star Trek Online

Star Trek Online interviews Voyager veterans and Season 10 voice actors

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Star Trek Online's Season 10: The Iconian War adds franchise veterans Robert Duncan McNeill and Lisa LoCicero to the fold. McNeill and LoCicero will...

Das Tal counts down to its Kickstarter campaign

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Das Tal's Kickstarter campaign has a start date: May 12th. The crowdfunding campaign for the isometric PvP sandbox will kick off on Tuesday, aiming for...
Make My MMO

Make My MMO: May 9, 2015

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This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we learned everything we ever wanted to know about Star Citizen's first person shooter module, plus a bit more....
Xsyon

Xsyon patch adds architecture parts, fixes bugs

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Xsyon's architecture mechanics got some love in yesterday's patch. New parts were added, including the 16x16 truss, 16 meter beams, and 8.8 and 16.8 meter...
Star Marine

Star Citizen reveals Star Marine’s SATA Ball and a whole lot more

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Cloud Imperium has dropped a huge info bomb regarding Star Marine, which is what the firm is calling Star Citizen's first person shooter functionality. Like...
Happiness is a warm car.

APB weathers (another) GTA V launch

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I feel kinda bad for APB Reloaded given that it's had to weather not one but two launches of GTA V, first on consoles...

Star Citizen releases retro-themed browser arcade game

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Forget Arena Commander -- the new hotness in the Star Citizen universe is Hyper Vanguard Force IV. And you can play it right now...
So long my honey, so long my baby, so long my ragtime gal.

Betawatch: May 8th, 2015

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This week, Landmark was consumed in a fiery explosion, by which we of course mean that it had a big old wipe. But it's...
Infinite Crisis

Infinite Crisis ranked play is available this weekend

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Looking for more of a challenge in Infinite Crisis? If so, you can queue up for some ranked matches since Turbine has enabled them...
Aiming for the planet.

Elite’s Mac client launches May 12, Powerplay beta on May 20

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This week's Elite: Dangerous newsletter covers quite a bit of ground. Firstly, the game's Mac client will launch on May 12th. Mac and PC...

Daybreak’s John Smedley: ‘Modders getting paid is an awesome idea’

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Where do you come down on the subject of paying for game mods? While the reality of the issue might be off the table...
More than you know.

Ubisoft Annecy joins the many teams working on The Division

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You remember The Division, right? We sort of do. It was supposed to be released... eventually. Was it supposed to be now? Meh, doesn't...

Echo of Soul trailer puts the spotlight on PvP

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Don't worry, PvP people -- Echo of Soul isn't going to leave you high and dry. The now-in-closed-beta Korean MMO has released a new video...

Guild Wars 2 initially aims for a small desert borderlands WvW test

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Even as Guild Wars 2 players are diligently farming zones in the hopes of obtaining a Heart of Thorns PvE beta key, ArenaNet is...

RIFT’s Hammerknell instant adventures open for business

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While the new Hammerknell instant adventure was originally slated for RIFT's 3.2 update, the team held it back for additional work and testing. The...

Why Eternal Crusade can’t do a global megaserver

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The dream to create a PvP-centric game on a single global megaserver might be just that -- a dream. Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade Senior Producer...