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So far, every time MassivelyOP's MJ has gone out looking for a place to build her own masterpiece, she's been distracted by all the cool construction she has come across. But today, with viewers' help, she's going to stay on track and find that perfect spot. Now, to hope that no one else has already claimed it when she...

It's launch. Can we collectively accept that? Marketing, developers, and players alike? Launch is launch. When your game launches, it has launched. If I can reach another decade on this planet without ever hearing the term "soft launch" again except as a historical footnote, I will be... well, I don't know that I'll be happy, but I'll certainly be happy...

Hope you don't have any reservations about fighting giant bugs that can snap off your head faster than you can flick a flyswatter: The insect-like hive mind of the Tyranids has arrived in Eternal Crusade as part of a five-player co-op map. "Prepare to die!" the devs said encouragingly. The July 14th patch claimed to go above and beyond mere bug...

If you've started to notice that the community in Overwatch has started to turn vicious in the past few weeks, you're not alone. In an interview last week, Overwatch Game Director Jeff Kaplan acknowledged that the longer a PvP game is out, the more some players' "dark sides" start to emerge. The good news is that steps are being taken to...

Hardcore perma-death MMORPG Wizardry Online just can't catch a break: MMO Culture reports today that the game is shutting down in Japan, five years after its launch there. Over in the west, the game ran just a year and a half under SOE's pre-Daybreak MMO umbrella; it was shut down here almost exactly two years ago along with Vanguard, Free Realms,...

As Pokemon Go continues its rollout across the world, you might be wondering why it's not in Japan yet. It's because Japan is even more Pokemon-crazed than we are and would break the servers, basically. Here's what else is happening with the MMOARG: A Niantic developer has said he'd love to see Pokemon Go adapted for the Game of Thrones world. ...

Fun fact: Chronicles of Elyria's web programmer is also the game's creative director, producer, and CEO (among other jobs). Yesterday, Lead Developer Caspian penned a post in which he admitted that he was attempting to fill too many roles in the small team, resulting in a recent delay in getting the website up and running after maintenance. The long and the...

I ran across an intriguing chunk of comments down below Justin's impressions piece on Star Trek Online's latest expansion. One reader said he was disappointed in the release, not for what it did offer but for what it didn't, and that prompted back and forth between several commenters over what we should expect from content releases that the studios...

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! Captain's Log, Stardate 70009.8. I thought it would be the holodeck that eventually did in the crew, but it turned out to be Pokemon Go. Who would have thought an antique Japanese Gameboy IP and a niche mobile...

A small but useful patch parachuted into Survarium this past week, bringing with it improved feedback for combat encounters, technical improvements, and even more weapons. But where are the hugs? "The Fringe Settlers get to please their fans with Fort-401 light machine gun which replaces RPK-74m on tier 8," the patch notes said. "The RPK-74M is now available on the...