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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. See any good MMO news? Hit us up through our tips...

Competitive content that's meant to push players to their limits is something less than effective when bugs muck up the process. The Destiny team is being largely mum about what, exactly, was the cause of bugs in the previous incarnation of the Trials of Osiris, or even the nature of those bugs. But it's assumed that the community knows,...

Elder Scrolls Online has been busy patching all three versions of its game this past week. A small PC and Mac patch fixed a few issues with the Imperial City and Coldharbour, while a much larger PlayStation 4 and Xbox One patch shored the game up on those consoles (including revealing "invisible guild store prices"). Players looking ahead to the Orsinium...

Long before the time of players in WildStar, the first humans on Cassus were stricken by a deadly plague. A single young girl was found to have natural antibodies that served to neutralize the contagion, but the idea of the plague being spread by a malicious figure known as Jack Shade had already penetrated the consciousness of the settlers....

Whatever happened to bad acronyms as titles for movies and TV shows? Where are our C.H.U.D.s? Our C.H.i.P.s? I guess we have Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., so that's something. Bring back the awkwardness of the '70s and '80s, Hollywood! At least we have readers like Boom here who are all about getting us first-hand pictures of genuine WildStar C.R.E.E.P.S.  What does...

So much for transmedia synergy. Syfy announced Friday that after three seasons, it is canceling Defiance. The show was part of a cross-media initiative to tie together a television series and an MMO, the latter of which is still being run by Trion Worlds. The channel praised the show even as it declined to renew it for a fourth season: "Defiance was a...

I really, really enjoy roleplaying. It's one of the biggest ways that I enjoy a game. I like coming up with elaborate character backstories and living the lives of these people, which invariably turns into some combination of mundane drama spiced up with the supernatural. Yes, my main character in Final Fantasy XIV is an assassin with magical knowledge...

It was another good week for Star Wars Galaxies offshoot Divergence Online, which cracked the top 10 on Steam's Greenlight list and settled into a frequent patching cadence designed to get combat going sooner rather than later. Initially the team was going to wait until the completion of its current $15,000 IndieGoGo campaign, but instead it decided to "go...

Last month Pearl Abyss announced the Awakening system for Black Desert, which is basically a weapon-swapping mechanic that allows traditional sword-and-board classes like the Warrior to instead wield a greatsword after certain prerequisites are met. The Warrior awakening will hit the game's Korean server on October 22nd. MMO Culture reports that the Sorceress and Giant classes are next in line....

Shroud of the Avatar's latest weekly update is a meaty deep dive into everything from the fantasy sandbox's musical system to its zones to the exploits of its dedicated community. One of those community members, YouTuber Eniko, put together both the ABC and MML code library that SotA uses for its music system as well as a video that...