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Landmark landowners who are weary of mining copper to keep their claims will soon earn a reprieve. While today's hotfix disables the ability to pay using Station Cash, next week's patch will remove copper as the upkeep currency. In fact, players will no longer have to pay upkeep at all! Instead, players will maintain their land ownership simply by...

Shadow Realms was an idea that didn't actually make it to "game" stage. It was cancelled a month ago, and odds are high-to-absolute that it's never coming back. But what would the game have been like if it hadn't been cancelled, and what led the team at BioWare Austin to start and then shelve it? Would you like to...

This week, EverQuest is celebrating its 16th anniversary. That's right: It was all the way back on March 16th, 1999, that the seminal title first came blinking into the world. Like any birthday of a long-running MMO, it's made me think about how much has happened between then and now. It's also made me realize just how off my radar...

Hi-Rez has released a SMITE video update that covers the new Another COG in the Machine patch. Community content manager Kelly Link is your host, and she spends a few minutes talking about everything from new skins to balance changes. You can watch the vid after the break. You can also read the patch notes on the SMITE forums. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YXiS7gGuZh8

From birth until its ignoble death, EverQuest Online Adventures always lived in the shadow of the EverQuest franchise's wing. As a chunky-looking subscription game on a console that was ill-suited to handling it, the game presented obstacles that only a fringe community would overcome. And yet EQOA is very much beloved in some small circles for helping to pioneer console...

The Elder Scrolls Online officially transitioned to buy-to-play today, and that makes it a perfect time for MassivelyOP's MJ to jump back in and check things out. It has been quite a while since her last journey to Tamriel, so luckily for her Larry is joining in to help show everything off (not to mention to keep her from...

So long, Allods Online; you will be remembered. The Russian-made fantasy MMO is shutting down... in China. The English servers are still just fine. We probably should have specified that. Yes, the game is going away after three years of operation, with the shutdown planned for late August and a slow shutdown along the way. The end of August coincides...

It's Tuesday here at Massively Overpowered, and that means it's time to play "Have you played?" So have you guys played Deepworld? If not, we want to point you in the direction of this adorably steampunk title. Deepworld bills itself as a "massively-multiplayer 2-D crafting adventure game" where players are helping to rebuild the world after the apocalypse. Don't let its...

Next week, Pathfinder Online will continue its alpha rollout with the early enrollment version 6 patch. The team posted a features overview yesterday to help highlight the big changes from the rest of the patch notes. Coming with version 6 are leadership ranks for companies and settlements, shared vaults with permissions lists, milestone feats for each of the four adventuring...

Justin and Bree discuss The Secret World's nerf, ArcheAge, BlizzCon 2015, Guild Wars 2, Skyforge, Crowfall, and SWTOR, with mailbag questions on playstyle focus, podcasting, and WoW tokens.