Updates

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This seems like a tonal shift.

Destiny developers clarify the shift to event-based updates after The Taken King

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Players of Destiny might well have expected the game's future updates to resemble what had happened before The Taken King, with medium-sized DLC packs...
FALCON PAWNCH

Check out fan-made videos for both of TERA’s new dungeons

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The most recent patch for TERA added in two new dungeons along with a new class. But what if you're not sure about those...
Blacker than the blackest black.

DC Universe Online reveals the conclusion to the War of the Light in Episode 20

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The heroes and villains of DC Universe Online have been dealing with the War of the Light for a while now, but the arrival...

Path of Exile adds talisman challenge leagues, launches in Brazil

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Tomorrow's 2.1.0 content update in Path of Exile looks to be a doozy -- so big, in fact, that it starts off with a...

EverQuest’s anti-multiboxing progression server is now live

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Classic EverQuest's latest time-locked progression server, Phinigel, successfully launched last night. Nicknamed "the true box progression server," it metes out expansion content at a...

Tribes: Ascend’s first major patch since 2013 lands today

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Back in August, Hi-Rez surprised disgruntled Tribes: Ascend fans by announcing that it would be resuming updates after years of maintenance mode. At the time,...
Let's go into a room with danger.

Marvel Heroes launches the Danger Room feature

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In the comics, the Danger Room is the aptly named training facility for the X-Men, a room which is dangerous so that the superheroes...

Albion Online ‘Aurelius’ beta update embraces the season

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Just because a game is in beta doesn't mean that it can't bust out an event or two, right? Albion Online thinks so, anyway, and...

Trove adds loot and progression to its new PvP mode

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Trove is no longer a harmonious place for jaunty voxels. If you haven't heard the news, Trion Worlds added PvP into the game with a recent...

Elite: Dangerous expands its ‘Horizons’ next week

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Elite: Dangerous is about to get a lot bigger with the launch of Horizons next Tuesday. Frontier's David Braben announced the date on the...

EVE’s ‘ISIS’ ship browser gets a rename

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EVE Online's Operation Frostline patch yesterday brought to light an intriguing change: a new name for the game's ship browser, the Interbus Ship Identification System, otherwise...

WildStar is merging its PvE servers back together today

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A few weeks ago, Carbine merged WildStar's post-F2P servers back with their originals. Now it's PvE's turn. The studio announced on Twitter yesterday that the...
HO HO HO

EVE Online releases its December patch with Operation Frostline

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The winter holidays are very different when you are in space and literally everyone is threatening to blow your ship up. That's hardly the...

Grab a TERA dragonette pet key from En Masse and MOP in honor of the Knockout update

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TERA's Knockout update arrives today, bringing with it the new Brawler class, new endgame armor (tier 8 and 9), and two new dungeons: “the pirate-infested...

Earn Trove’s new Chloromancer by playing RIFT

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Trove's 13th class, the Chloromancer, is drawing inspiration from the RIFT soul of the same name. Trion Worlds told Massively OP via interview that the...
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Sword Coast Legends adds fire, death, and deception just in time for the holidays

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Most updates to a game around this time of year follow a rather predictable course, and we all know it. There's some snow, there's...
Appreciable?

Final Fantasy XI preps for its December version update

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Here comes another update for Final Fantasy XI! "Wait, didn't that have its last update already?" you ask. No, it had its final story...
'Problem' is not a synonym for 'thing I personally don't like.'

Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s new kids on the block

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I haven't forgotten the fact that there were people on the first day of Heavensward early access sporting level 50 Machinist and Dark Knights....

The MOP Up: Players choose Lineage II classic server name (December 6, 2015)

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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...

Choose My Adventure: Wrapping up my Guild Wars 2 adventure

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Hello again, friends, and welcome to the fourth and final installment of the Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns edition of Choose My Adventure....