Updates

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PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is coming to China with Tencent adjustments

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Chinese players will soon also be allowed to play a video game about locking yourself in a box where you can scavenge for weapons...

Black Desert introduces Thanksgiving boss event and halves its B2P fee

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Kakao announced today both Thanksgiving celebrations and sales for Black Desert. In fact, it's a good time to be jumping into BDO as a...
A dispatch from the days when I bothered.

World of Warcraft previews the Burning Throne

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Next week, players can start entering the raid that closes out the first storyline ever explored in the World of Warcraft universe. The raid...

SMITE’s Passage to Egypt patch rewards PvE players for besting Loki

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Patch 4.22 Passage to Egypt is live in SMITE this week. Its headlining feature? A new "nightmare" difficulty mode for the freebie co-op RPG...

Lord of the Rings Online is heading to Northern Mirkwood, Erebor, and Minas Morgul

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Don't get too comfortable in Mordor just yet, because Lord of the Rings Online is preparing to send its players to the far reaches...

Neverwinter Nights’ new enhanced edition will support old modules

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It's the thing to do lately: rerelease a classic video game with just enough enhancements to charge for it all over again. In this...
Oh well.

Watch Destiny 2’s Curse of Osiris dev stream here at 2 p.m. EST

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Some MMO studios waste entire Fridays streaming about their upcoming patches, but not Bungie: Bungie's wasting two whole days on Destiny 2's Curse of...

Enter to win a trio of Star Trek Online console factional starter packs from PWE and MOP

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In honor of the launch of Star Trek Online Season 14: Emergence on console last week, PWE has granted Massively OP a bunch of goodies to raffle...
ROBOT ROCK - wait, can't play that song.

Final Fantasy XIV launches patch 4.15 with music and MOBA gameplay

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It's time to smash up some robots with other robots in Final Fantasy XIV. There's more to it than that, sure, but the core...

Check out Guild Wars 2’s ‘Daybreak’ living story season 4 trailer

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If you were excited about last week's Guild Wars 2 living story season 4 announcement but found the recap trailer wanting, welp, you're going...
I HAVE COME AFLAME

H1Z1’s latest patch adds a new insta-respawn map and new dailies

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Daybreak has big plans for H1Z1 -- that's the game formerly known as H1Z1: King of the Kill, you'll recall, as it was rebranded...
Great plan, boy.

EverQuest II previews the Bastion of Thunder

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Really, no one should be building a stronghold just to control portions of the weather. It leads to all sorts of problems later on....

ARK: Survival Evolved players riot over turrets as Aberration is pushed to December

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Over the weekend, Studio Wildcard posted up an ARK Survival Evolved dev blog about turrets. You guys, I had no idea turrets were such...

Fortnite plans to flesh out its PvE mode in December and January

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I'm gonna be honest: When I saw the subheader "The future of Save the World" in the latest Fortnite dev blog, I expected what...
How does this work? We were barely told.

Wisdom of Nym: Speculating about future Final Fantasy XIV jobs from weapons

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The Armoury System places a certain unique burden on Final Fantasy XIV. Any new job doesn't just need to have a distinct mechanical identity,...
Good news, this wasn't a fad! (It was a fad.)

Pokemon Go kicks off Global Catch Challenge with 3B ‘mon goal

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Live now in Pokemon Go as of this weekend is a pretty nutty challenge for players all over the globe, daring players to get...

The Daily Grind: Are you thinking of WoW Classic as a totally new MMO?

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Early on in all the WoW Classic hoopla, I'd been thinking of World of Warcraft legacy servers as the sort of gimmick servers that...

The MOP Up: Osiris New Dawn’s terrifying space ghosts (November 19, 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...
What the el. Yon. Elyon.

Betawatch: Ascent: Infinite Realm is already heading to Korean beta (November 17, 2017)

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Let me tell you, I'm really glad that Ascent: Infinite Realm already has a publishing deal for the west, because otherwise I would be...

Paladins goes full auto with Vivian

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Would you rather have a trove of ancient technology at your fingertips or a modern arsenal of rapid-fire weaponry? Paladins' newest champion, Vivian, doesn't have...

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