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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...

Next week's update for Dungeon Fighter Online will add a new character to the mix: Kunoichi, the girl on fire. There's been no word yet if Suzanne Collins' lawyers are investigating this patch for copyright infringement. Not much has been revealed about Kunoichi yet other than she's a female ninja who has a preference for fast attacks and a whole lot of fire....

This might come as a shock to ARK: Survival Evolved players, but Studio Wildcard has announced more content for the survival game, this time in the form of three new environments. OK, so it's no surprise at all; the studio is known for pouring content into the game at a fairly quick pace. Soon players will have the chance...

It's that time of year again: when you realize half-way through your indulgence of in-game festivals that you totally forgot to go out and pick up gifts for all the EverQuest franchise and Daybreak Games fans on your list. Or maybe you didn't forget, but you've been totally stumped as to what to get that certain someone that already...

One of my most prized physical MMO possessions is my WildStar rowsdower plushie. It always sits there, looking at me as though it's accusing me of the world's ills. And I just have to love it in return. Reader Weakness sent in this following encounter with a cantankerous beast: "In Auroria, there is a fortress of Osun in the southeast corner...

Players logging in to SkySaga this past week will have encountered a game that's been changed and improved across the board (and hopefully for the better). The team completely replaced the UI, nixed the social hub in favor of the City of First Light, changed how health works in combat, added treasure amber rewards, made PvP available all of...

I have said in the past that I have an issue with inventory space on a whole. Games like Final Fantasy XIV only compound this issue; when everything in the game is useful somewhere, I wind up with banks stuffed to the brim with armor, scales, leather, blood, and meat from four years ago. But even that wouldn't be...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Dogma: Eternal Night kicked off its fundraising campaign, for those of you still feeling the burn from CCP's failed stab at a World of Darkness MMO. Elsewhere around the crowdfundingverse, we interviewed Visionary Realms' Brad McQuaid, Chris Rowan, and Chris Perkins about the state of Pantheon. The rest of this week's news roundup is just...

Fantasy sandbox Tree of Life got a patch this week, which included a number of building system changes designed to make it easier to manage player towns. Previously player towers had to be locked to protect them from player thieves, but said thieves could still pick the locks and disable your towers. The development team decided to do away...

The open beta for Civilization Online is starting on December 2nd in South Korea. Is it ever starting in the US? We still don't know, although current plans do not seem to indicate that it will be. Would you like to watch a couple of trailers for the game regardless? Because we've got them down below. The first trailer is...