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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! Bethsoft is giving away a million dollars in a new Elder Scrolls Online promotion ostensibly designed to get people hyped for the game around the Christmas season. The contest is open to people in the UK, Germany,...

That kickstarted HEX: Shards of Fate trading card game is still a thing, and earlier this week, HEX Entertainment published a video showing off the first in-game footage of the title's PvE mode. The clip takes viewers along for a ride through the dungeons of Fort Romor, though the dev voiceover notes that there are a few placeholders and bugs...

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...

Alpha-state fantasy sandbox Gloria Victis pushed out a press release late this week touting "massive" amounts of polish and bug-fixing for the latest build. Two consecutive updates were released to the live client, which addressed critical issues with logging in and saving inventory in the database. More noticeably in terms of gameplay, the devs have revised all of the...

Perfect World Entertainment has brought back its annual winter holiday events to its stable of MMOs. We've mentioned the goings-on in Star Trek Online already, but you might also want to check in with Neverwinter for its Winter Festival of Simril for daily quests, starlight parcel gifts, and more. It starts on December 17th. Perfect World International is hosting login bonus...

Have you tried Space Engineers since it added its ginormous planetary update? If not, you might want to watch the video dev blog that Keen Software boss Marek Rosa posted last week. "Planets are the biggest feature we've ever implemented in Space Engineers," he says. "It's bigger than survival, bigger than multiplayer, and it's really a game-changing feature." Rosa says that...

Hello again, friends, and welcome to the fourth and final installment of the Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns edition of Choose My Adventure. You may have noticed that this column is a couple of days later than usual. Sorry about that; it's been a busy time. At any rate, you may remember that last week, I asked y'all to...

Bungie published a lengthy look at Destiny's status earlier this week. The firm is working on a December update patch that should hit sometime in the next few days if all goes according to plan. What will it contain? Primarily small-scale tweaks that include arsenal updates, reprisals for "a handful of year one exotics," and changes to town vendors...

Screenshots often tell a story -- or a part of one, at least. They invite us into a moment of a gamer's journey, leaving us to empathize and speculate what we would do if faced with the same situation. I've seen a lot of brutal scenarios in my day, but this may be the worst of them all. "Dealing with...

Beta testing doesn't bother me. Alpha-testing as a public thing doesn't bother me too much either. But pre-alpha? You're calling what you're doing a pre-alpha, Crowfall? I love you guys, but this is just stretching definitions to the point of absurdity. What the heck is up with Star Citizen's "let's release a tiny little part of the game isolated...