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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! Everyone knows that bards are the best class in MMOs. It's a factual fact. And now that we're all in agreement, because we totally are, I present to you Camelot Unchained's bards. Three of them. And...

Huge PvP battles have always been a core part of EVE Online's territorial warfare gameplay, with fleets of hundreds or even sometimes thousands of players slamming into each other in the depths of space. Battles usually erupt at points of interest such as stargates, space stations, sovereignty command nodes or individual player-owned structures. There might even be multiple fights...

No, your eyes aren't fooling you; APB: Reloaded is definitely looking a lot better these days. The developers have been working on an upgrade to the game's graphic engine over the past year and are more than happy to show how much better APB looks with the new settings. Among the improvements are a better balanced depth of field, dynamic...

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...

Portalarium published Update of the Avatar #151 this morning. It dives deep into Shroud of the Avatar, and it offers readers a look at everything from the making of the North Naryad Pinelands zone to the new flute musical instrument to clockwork pets and a hot air balloon. There's also a video postmortem of Release 23 featuring Richard Garriott, Starr...

New expansions across the MMO sphere are prompting many of us to take up a part-time job as in-game photographers. And why not? Eye candy is part of the fun of this genre! Reader Brooks sent in this cool action shot of Star Wars: The Old Republic: "Neither Skytroopers or the Knights of Zakuul can stop a Jedi Master from...

If you play Final Fantasy XIV, you know that it is not a game that rewards players for playing multiple characters. Quite the opposite, in fact; the game assumes that you'll pick one character and stick with that character through thick and thin. Meanwhile, here I sit with two different max-level, well-geared characters, another character near the level cap, and...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, it was pretty much business as usual. Major players like Star Citizen, Camelot Unchained, and Crowfall continued their weekly update cadences. We also heard from The Repopulation dev team, which reiterated the fact that it was "blindsided" by recent Hero Engine woes and is working to "minimize the impact" on the sci-fi sandbox going forward....

Star Citizen's latest development update came out last night. Cloud Imperium says that Murphy's Law was in full effect last week, as the team dealt with all of the normal challenges inherent in a project of Star Citizen's scope, plus external hazards like a lead programmer breaking his wrist in a bicycle fall. As per usual with these update snapshots,...

Tom Clancy's The Division still isn't out yet. Ubisoft has released a video Q&A comprised of queries from the shooter's community, though. Topics cover everything from the ability to change skill sets in the open world to customizing the visuals on various guns to how many characters you're allowed to create. The answer to that last one is four, in...