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I am honestly fairly sure that I know where the entrance to to the Deep Dungeon will lie when it comes out in July. I can't be certain, of course, but all of the signs point to it. And it's one of the many bits of Final Fantasy XIV that I'm looking forward to over the next few months,...

What is an MMORPG? If you're reading this site, you probably have an answer ready to go, but you probably know more than a few people who haven't the slightest idea about what MMORPGs actually are. So why not let someone else explain it for you? The latest episode of Crash Course Gaming on YouTube covers the MMORPG genre,...

The Nostalrius team's journey to Blizzard and back may be complete, but the details are still coming forth from the large player survey that the vanilla World of Warcraft group put out to its community. Yesterday, the team released part of the survey results and its analysis of the data as a nine-page summary of the larger 80-page post-mortem document...

While the full MMORPG portion of Chronicles of Elyria may be a year and a half off (or more), the team is working hard at bringing not one, not two, but three early experiences for players. The first will be an offline "prologue" with 22 feature areas with the purpose of testing several of the features that will go into the...

Probably no big surprise here, but according to Superdata Research in May, Blizzard and Riot Games are still kings of the online PC gaming charts. Overwatch was the MVP of May, raking in $269 million during the month and absolutely smashing rival Battleborn's ($18 million) face into the dirt. League of Legends remained on top of the free-to-play list, while World...

Crowfall has just kicked off an all-day streamvaganza on Twitch. ArtCraft is promising multiple reveals throughout the day, including the one just mentioned: ArtCraft is partnering with Travian Games to publish Crowfall in Europe, Brazil, the Middle East, and North Africa. Travian is a German company established in 2005. Stay tuned for more new bits throughout the day, or...

Nexon has released a brand-new Riders of Icarus trailer this morning, this one spotlighting the heroes and villains of the game, with gameplay snippets of some of the boss encounters players will face. The titan is probably the biggest badass of the bunch. Open beta begins in just over a week for regular players; those who buy founder's packsahead of...

Last week when news of Brexit took over the western world, a Star Citizen Redditor made a comment about the weirdness of learning that the UK is leaving the EU via the Star Citizen sub. "This is almost as bad as the time on WoW when a gnome in Stormwind broke the news to me that Bin Laden died,"...

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! This week, Star Wars: The Old Republic came under fire over its Dark vs. Light event, which essentially requires achievement-hunting players to roll new characters (on alt servers or with newly purchased slots, assuming their home...

We've heard a lot recently about huge territorial wars raging in EVE Online with thousands of pilots taking part, which some consider to be the ultimate endgame of EVE. PvP on that kind of scale and with real consequences and territory on the line is certainly one of the game's primary draws in an MMO space that is getting more crowded every year....