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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! This week, Gazillion announced that long-time CEO David Brevik was stepping down from his post and leaving the company that makes Marvel Heroes. Brevik told forum-goers and stream-watchers that he loves Marvel Heroes but wanted to step away...

In the previous edition of EVE Evolved, I looked back at some of the big highlights EVE Online throughout 2015. It was a year that revolutionised practically every aspect of EVE's day-to-day gameplay with a flood of updates, that broke the stranglehold the game's largest alliances had on territory, and that seriously advanced the in-game storyline in an awesome direction. It was also...

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...

Daybreak's DC Universe Online is about to turn five years old, believe it or not, and the studio is planning a pair of streams (and more than a pair of player gifts) to celebrate the occasion. "Happy 5th Anniversary, DCUO! January 11, 2011, still seems like just yesterday to a lot of us, but come Monday DCUO will be celebrating...

In 1999, the year that EverQuest released, work was already underway for another fantasy MMO called World of Warcraft. It wasn't until a couple of years later that gamers got their first look at the game, but screenshots do exist from this ancient era of WoW development. Perhaps you've seen some of these pictures, perhaps not, but it's always a...

Last fall, devs asked The Secret World players to submit their most burning questions about the game, and then the community voted on which ones they wanted Lead Designer Romain "Tilty" Amiel to answer to most. The top five winners have now received their answers! Tilty explained more about the Third Core Capacitor and Supernal Diode (they were "a part...

The One Shots community does love congregating on Sundays to post favorite MMO screenshots in the comments section. While I certainly do love and appreciate getting pictures sent in via email, I'll admit that I equally enjoy perusing the comments to see what's tacked on to each week's column. So today I'm going to devote an entire edition of One...

Subscriber rewards are one of those little things that I always like to see. I pretty much always subscribe to a game if it's an option and I plan to play it, because... well, that's how I'm wired, and it also means that there are at least even odds that I'll be committed for a bit. But some games...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, the Oculus Rift, once a crowdfunded venture, is now asking a whopping $599 for its final product, befuddling market analysts. Meanwhile, Greed Monger returned from the dead, Divergence Online staggered to Steam early access, and TUG picked up a cool $8.5 million in funding to start over in a new engine, meaning a year's delay to...

Ask any homeowner: The biggest headache is having to keep up with all of the things that keep breaking around the house. Broadsword knows this all too well, as it's had to take Dark Age of Camelot's housing system offline to fix some unspecified issues. "As most of you know, we've had some issues with the housing zones and have...