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The first look at a new game is always exciting. You get to see a game as something other than concept art and development promises; what could be better? So Camelot Unchained fans should be happy that some of the first live footage of the game has been streamed by CohhCarnage, a fan given authorization by CSE to show...

Welcome to Guild Chat, my comfortable little corner of Massively Overpowered in which I dissect the inner workings and tricky politics associated with MMO guilds. If you were a ravenous reader of Massively-of-old, you may fondly remember Karen Bryan's fantastically crafted column The Guild Counsel, which expertly covered all things related to guilds. I couldn't hope to replace Karen's...

Have you ever gotten married? In game, I mean. Well, if you haven't screenshotted it, it didn't happen. Fortunately this Final Fantasy XIV couple saw fit to capture the moment of wedded bliss between a bear-man and a child-woman. "With Final Fantasy XIV now offering weddings, here's a shot of my wife and me celebrating our in-game nuptials," reader Phubarrh...

Video game developers have been positively obsessing about virtual reality for the last few years, but barring an exception here and there, few MMOs seem to have a compelling plan for how to upsell us on the idea. CCP's EVE: Valkyrie project has been met with a mixture of awed skepticism since its reveal last year, though admittedly that's probably...

This week's crowdfunding news was all about Crowfall. Seriously, we must've written about Crowfall like 76 times or something. In the end, the most relevant piece of Crowfall news is that the Kickstarter is over and it was a big success. Oh, and we also checked in with Pathfinder, which put version six of its early access client out to backers...

Back in February, Daybreak announced plans for a new classic EverQuest progression server and allowed players to vote on the future server's ruleset. Yesterday, the devs announced that the "slower progression" ruleset beat out the Fippy Darkpaw plan, the locked progression plan, and the seasonal challenges by a wide margin. And that means it's time for... more polls. Daybreak promises...

To rub it in to everyone else in the world, it is our duty to announce that Korean beta testers have been enjoying Black Desert for 100 days now. The fantasy title began its open beta test on December 17, 2014, and the team is waving its hands in the air like it just don't care now that it's hit...

Last time Massively OP's MJ tried to explore in The Repopulation, she gave the cloning facility a good workout. Today she'll boldly go where no MJ has gone before! She's bound and determined to make it to a new part of the map where there's sure to be new and interesting sights to behold and mobs to fight. Catch...

Out of all of the MMOs that I've played over the years, I must have spent the most time in Lord of the Rings Online's wonderfully realized vision of J.R.R. Tolkien's world. An early magazine article in 2007 intrigued me with the mention of a "low-fantasy" MMO that skewed more to realism than the cartoony World of Warcraft. By the...

There comes a time in every woman's life, as well as the lives of most men and the occasional CGI humanoid monster, when you need to eat some fried motorcycle. First, get your fryer ready; you'll need to make sure it's big enough to fry the whole motorcycle, not just part of it. Otherwise the frying process won't really...