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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...

Star Citizen fans have had a long wait for the game's big Alpha 2.0 update -- but that wait is just about over. CIG announced over the weekend that 2.0 is finally on the test server, where select players are stress testing the patch for its future release. The studio is increasing the testing pool size by 15,000 which was sent out...

In order to create the most truly challenging MMOs that connect players with the specific virtual environments they're traversing, developers have always worked on unique ways to make navigation and adventuring as important to the MMOverse as every other way to play trope. At the core of any good exploration-heavy MMO should lie a solid set of movement mechanics...

Friday evening, Camelot Unchained revealed its eighth class triplet, the dark and sinister Spirit Mages: The Slaughterwolf (Vikings): Summons and commands a pack of pissed-off spirit wolves. The Morrigan (Tuatha Dé Danaan): Summons and commands spectral crows, cows, and wolves, "feed off the death around them." The Dread Caller (Arthurians): Masters of tainted souls. "These dark mages power their spirit magic with...

Guild Wars 2 and One Shots is a pairing as old as time immemorial. Thus, it's great to bring this good-looking MMO back into the headlining position with a submission from reader Siphaed. "After drinking a very odd looking potion, I felt kind of queasy," he wrote. "Wondering around a bit in Lion's Arch, people were running from me, screaming....

Let's face it, MMOs are not always filled with new stuff happening every minute. You wait for queues, you wait for enemies to spawn, you wait for the rest of your usual group to log on so you can run the dungeon already. It's that stage when you have enough time that the wait is awkward but not enough time...

It was a huge week for crowdfunded space sims. First, Infinity: Battlescape met its $300,000 Kickstarter goal with over a day to spare. Then, Cloud Imperium released Star Citizen version 2.0 to a select group of testers. What's 2.0? Only the first incarnation of the game's expansive persistent universe! Sources indicate that vaporware trolls suddenly made themselves scarce both on MOP and across...

Cross-platform fantasy PvP MMO Albion Online starts closed beta next week. Sandbox Interactive has posted the start times, which are dependent on what sort of founder's pack you've purchased. Legendary members can start at 7:00 a.m. EST on Monday, November 23rd, while Epic founders and Veteran founders start at the same time on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. Albion devs recently took...

Armored Warfare, that "other" tank game, has an update out that's adding a whole new tier of vehicles to the mix. The M1A2, CRAB, BMPT-72, Leopard 2A6, T-90MS, B1 Draco, Challenger II, and M8 Thunderbolt can attain tier 9 status, although getting there is trickier than ever. Obsidian Entertainment explains the complicated process: "Any tier 9 vehicle can be unlocked by...

Way back when I used to haunt the corridors of Gamestop and had yet to shun the place due to its stinky evil, I remember being enticed with these fancy-pantsy "MMORPG" boxes when I'd see them on the shelf. I must have picked up Shadowbane a dozen or so times to check out the blurbs on the back, mentally weighing...