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Path of Exile shows off the interactions of new skills and support abilities

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Part of the fun of Path of Exile is setting up combinations of skills, support skills, and items in order to create a constant...
Mars mars mars mars.

ROKH updates fans on the process of examining and improving the game

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Another four-week silence from the ROKH development team has been broken by the latest update on the state of the game. The last lengthy...

Trove continues to fine-tune its Adventures update

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As any game developer knows, a new content update is not only an opportunity for players to have more fun but for the game...

Revelation Online: ShadowBlade brings Assassin, new class training, and class changes

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Do you want to skulk in the shadows in Revelation Online? The new ShadowBlade expansion for the game lets you do just that with...
I'm here to talk with you about patch cadence.

Guild Wars 2’s fourth living story season has officially landed

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Guild Wars 2's first living story episode since the apparently tepid launch of Path of Fire has officially launched this afternoon. Dubbed Daybreak, a...

Elder Scrolls Online kicks off LFG dungeon event with huge cash-shop prizes this week

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The Elder Scrolls Online's #10MillionStories promotion keeps rolling along, and this week, ZeniMax is adding another incentive to getting players in on the fun....

Flameseeker Chronicles: Wrapping up Guild Wars 2’s Path of Fire story ahead of season 4

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The launch of Guild Wars 2's Living World Season 4 will be upon us today, so it's all the more pressing that I wrap up...

GPS mounts and zombies arrive in Dofus’ Towers of the Forgotten

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Just call it "Dofus 2.0." The unique MMO's December update is vastly adding onto and overhauling the core gameplay with its Towers of the Forgotten....

Life is Feudal is rolling out a clean-slate roleplaying server following shaky open beta launch

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The MMO version of Life is Feudal got off to a shaky open beta start last week, not that our seasoned MMO veteran commenters...
Gay ship.

EVE Online patches in more alpha skills on December 5th

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The next patch for EVE Online arrives on December 5th, and it's going to give Alpha players (or "free-to-play players" for those not down...
Every so often, you need to take a look at the banner you're marching under to make sure it still echoes your beliefs.

Wisdom of Nym: Classes, job, and the Armoury System in Final Fantasy XIV

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Here's how this column got written. Last week, I was talking about new potential jobs based on weapons rather than on jobs that have...
Maybe here? Who knows.

Guild Wars 2 teases the next Fractal arriving with season 4

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There's another Fractal arriving with the next portion of Guild Wars 2's Living Story tomorrow, but where will it take you? What will it...

Destiny 2 doubles level XP following last week’s botched event

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Remember how Bungie bungled Destiny 2's XP scaling event and had to disable the whole thing after players found that the game was throttling...

The MOP Up: League of Legends doesn’t want to grow up (November 26, 2017)

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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...
There is no 'enough.'

Gloria Victis expands its map and adds some hidden treasures

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There's even more land in Gloria Victis now, enough space that everyone has all the reason in the world to spread out and never...

Hearthstone’s Kobolds and Catacombs dungeon run treasures are ‘blatantly overpowered’

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Just because Hearthstone is a multiplayer card game doesn't mean that Blizzard is ignoring its solo player community. In fact, the upcoming Kobolds and...
Crack.

Path of Exile digs to the bottom of the upcoming Abyss League

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There's something nasty under the ground in Path of Exile. No, worse than those gross pillbugs you would find under big rocks when you...

Conan Exiles continues work on combat overhaul and Xbox One parity with PC

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On Black Friday, Funcom was working - well, it was streaming Conan Exiles, at least, which is sort of like working. The devs sit...

EverQuest II takes you inside a volcano base for next week’s expansion

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What would it be like to live and work inside a base located at the center of a volcano? Hot, you think? Probably hot....

Pokemon Go’s new plan for exclusive raids doesn’t fix monetization

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If you've followed any of MOP's Andrew Ross' coverage of Pokemon Go over the last year, you know that he's been critical of the...

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