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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 of it gets backlogged. That’s why there’s The MOP Up: a weekly compilation of smaller MMO stories and videos that you won’t want to miss. Seen any good MMO news? Hit us up through our tips...

Hello, friends, and welcome to the final (belated) installment of Choose My Adventure: Shroud of the Avatar edition. Last week, I asked y'all to make a few final decisions about my character's build. The blades-bludgeons-polearms vote was a close one, with polearms edging out victory, and it was by a fairly significant margin that you decided I should eschew...

Hardcore sandbox Wild Terra's latest dev diary digs into the guts of how it came to the decision to switch the sprite-based character animation technology of its previous project to 3-D models. If you ever modded the Sims 1 compared to later Sims games, you'll understand exactly why: While it seems like a sprite-like, 2-D animated image is "simpler,"...

Welcome along to another instalment of Guild Chat, my cozy wee corner of Massively OP in which we break down the issues and questions presented to help readers improve the guilds of MMO enthusiasts everywhere. In this edition, I'm going to look at the fun side of things because I received an email from a reader who thinks that...

We're staring down the barrel of Valentine's Day, which means that love and Cupid's arrows are in the air. But that's not enough for Destiny; the sci-fi shooter wants to mix in high-velocity ammunition, vengeance, and broken hearts as well. Running from February 9th through 16th, Crimson Days will present a Destiny-style twist on V-Day with a new PvP game mode...

As if MMOs didn't already give us big enough heads, what with everyone treating us as if we were the saviors of the world and the only hero (along with a million others), now we have games literally bowing down before us. Reader John got his ego fix from Star Wars: The Old Republic: "At some point in the Sith...

If you're trying to play Otherland through Steam today, you might be noticing the store page is offline. Drago Entertainment dev Lucjan told concerned fans on January 28th -- through the Steam community page that is still up -- that it was intentional, sort of. "We have requested for Otherland to be moved to a different Steam Account. Looks like Steam just...

I have a mixed set of feelings about the various Star Wars: The Old Republic reputation events. On the one hand, it annoys me that I can't just go do bounty contract stuff when I want, but I have to wait for the week to come back around. On the other hand, the rotating schedule means that I can't...

The Repopulation has finally issued its promised announcement to the community following the long HeroEngine drama that drove it offline last month: Above & Beyond is porting the indie sandbox to Unreal Engine. "Although we have had numerous discussions on possible solutions to these issues over the past few months, we did not find a good solution that would make...

We've got a double Star Citizen PSA for you this weekend. First, Star Citizen is open this weekend for yet another "free-fly" event; anyone can sign up to check out the 2.1.2 build of the alpha (aka Crusader aka the "mini-PU"), arena commander, and the social module. And second, Cloud Imperium has reiterated that Squadron 42 will be splitting off from Star Citizen packages,...