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Excessive popularity isn't always a good thing for an online game. ARK: Survival Evolved has been struggling with handling an overabundance of Xbox One players ever since its early access debut last month. Fortunately, the team is preparing to bring over 100 new servers online to handle the population's needs. "In less than a week following its December 2015 launch,...

Breaking up is always hard to do -- unless, of course, there's a whole ton of money in the mix to make you feel better about the whole thing. Vivendi has jumped out of doing business with Activision Blizzard, selling its 41,500,000 remaining shares in the publisher to an undisclosed financial institution for a cool $1.1 billion. Vivendi also recouped...

I hated pets when I first got started in MMORPGs. Pets in early MMOs had such terrible AI and were such a nuisance to control that they gave their masters bad reputations for years to come. A couple of games changed my mind along the way, though: Guild Wars 1 and Titan Quest, and maybe Hellgate London too. While not all...

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! Blade & Soul's headstart launched this weekend, and quite a lot of you are playing it already or planning to jump in Monday night/Tuesday morning when it officially launches. It hasn't been the best of headstarts...

Most RuneScape fans would probably agree that Jagex's game is very fine indeed, but there are always those who look at an MMO and think, "I bet I can do it better!" That's where Molior RS comes into play. Molior RS is a project by a team of RuneScape fans to remake the game using Neverwinter Nights 2's Aurora Engine toolset. These fans...

Building on its December Age of Destroyers patch, Gaijin's space sandbox Star Conflict has this week patched in that very ship class for players to create. "The first destroyers — a new ship class in Star Conflict, are available for manufacture and use by all pilots. At the moment pilots can build and utilise only rank 8 Destroyers. Higher rank will be added...

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...

It's not every day that you see the same class come to two different MMOs, but here you go: Ankama has added the new Huppermage to both Wakfu and Dofus. The Huppermage is a magic-using class that wields the traditional four elements along with a fifth, light. By combining elements, the class can produce a variety of results. Players will...

In the last edition of MMO Mechanics, I looked back on 2015 and the mechanics I managed to squeeze into the column: We looked at fast travel, barriers to exit, and some mechanics tied to previously untapped IPs, but I haven't yet talked about my hopes and expectations for 2016. I was quiet during the various discussions the Massively...

Diablo III's much-anticipated 2.4 update is causing as much harm as it is good for both Xbox and PlayStation communities. Console players have reported that the patch is causing severe frame rate issues and lag, almost to the point of unplayability. Blizzard said that it is investigating the issue and is encouraging its community to submit feedback and bug reports...