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The first community-designed starship is coming to Star Trek Online with the Jupiter-class carrier. While it's got sleek lines, the Jupiter's biggest selling point isn't its firepower but its array of fighter craft, ready to deploy and to make use of the ship's unique special abilities. Jupiter carriers are able to provide a potent buff to all allies in a...

It was on this date in 2004 that a little-known fantasy MMO debuted on the scene after a half-decade of development and testing. False modesty aside, World of Warcraft was already a huge phenomenon at its launch (breaking all sorts of MMO records), growing exponentially over its first few years. While recently the title has taken a substantial hit...

There's a whole lot to be said about the Diadem. Let's start: It's kind of a mess because it's a really solid idea lacking the clarity of purpose found in most of the game. Well, that was quick. Who wants lunch? Or, no, you want me to elaborate on that point for another several hundred words as I always do. I...

I'm not going to lie, folks: I love peripherals. Love 'em. As soon as I was introduced to the idea that you could have something other than a keyboard attached to a computer, I was hooked, and subsequent years have provided me with a surfeit of options about what I can plug into my case. That sounded kind of dirty....

Every up-and-coming game is going to have both its defenders and its critics, with hyperbole and questionable prognostication often spinning out of control. Pantheon's Brad McQuaid was concerned enough about managing the message that he wrote up an instructive post on the forums advising supporters as how to respond to and educate the game's "skeptics." "We need to be honest...

Red 5 looks to be suffering through a round of layoffs, although the scope and reason behind the pink slips has yet to be revealed. MMORPG.com has an anonymous source that claims the layoffs are "major." One of the Firefall subreddit mods confirmed that there have been layoffs at the Firefall studio although he did not have any details past that. Massively OP has...

What will it take for you to land your ship on planets in Elite: Dangerous? Well, at the very least it will take a computer powerful enough to run the Horizons expansion. The most recent official newsletter unveils the official system specifications, and while the specifications in question are not bargain-basement level most recent computers shouldn't have many issues....

Camelot Unchained has been revealing its classes for a few weeks now, and the fantasy RvR sandbox has no shortage or interesting archetypes. So far my favorite is the Black Rider, not so much for how it likely plays but for the fact that it uses its severed head and spinal chord as a weapon. The mages sound interesting...

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! In the middle of Force Master week, NCsoft announced that Blade & Soul will be making its formal North American and European debut on January 19th, just in time to keep everyone company through the post-holiday...

Just because Cabal 2 is out doesn't mean that the original Cabal has given up the ghost! Yesterday the title put out an ambitious update called Art of War that has challenges for both the PvE and PvP set. For PvE players, Cabal has added an elite difficulty setting for some of its dungeons. PvPers have even more to enjoy,...