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Shroud of the Avatar has been offering its pledged testers regular updates for a while now, and that's pretty darn cool. If you were originally unsure about pledging money to the game to see whether or not it could go the distance, it seems pretty obvious at this point that it can. And if you want to translate that...

I've been dabbling in a bit of Star Wars: The Old Republic here lately, and I had forgotten how many achievements there were in the game's legacy system. I don't normally care about MMO achievements, but in this case I've finished all the class stories and I'm not much for raids or PvP, so achievements are basically what I...

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! Following the arguably mild sentencing of Lizard Squad hacker Julius Kivimaki in Finland this week, Daybreak Game Company President John Smedley lashed out on Twitter and Reddit, discussing openly the ongoing harassment he's been suffering since last...

Any time an in-depth discussion pops up about EVE Online, it's never long before someone pipes up with the complaint that new players just can't compete with veterans. EVE has been out for over 12 years now, and thanks to its realtime skill training mechanic, there are players who seem to have up to a 250 million skillpoint head...

After just a week and a half of Albion Online's summer alpha test, players are stacking up an impressive pile of videos showing off the isometric sandbox in a variety of formats. Many of the videos showcase the title's PvP conflict, from large epic battles to smaller scuffles, including those in sinister hell dungeons. You can check out the array...

Looking for the toughest content in the newly released Trove? Then you're going to want to climb the ladder of the game's adventure worlds until you get to uber levels. A new dev diary walks players through the different difficulty levels of adventure worlds, starting with novice and climbing all of the way to uber. Players will need to be...

Skyforge is becoming a hot property for bored summer gamers looking for something new to explore. Reader Tyler reports in from the recent closed beta, saying that the game is "incredibly gorgeous" to behold. "I've mainly been playing the Alchemist, which is very fun and unusual," he sent in. "Basically a lot of using the mobs as guinea pigs in...

There's a sense of satisfaction when you wrap up a big set of goals. You're downed the last boss of the last raid tier in World of Warcraft, and he dropped the last item you need to have best-in-slot across all of your equipment spaces. You've finally finished a major new ship upgrade in EVE Online, and while you'd...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Derek Smart reminded everyone that he exists. Not that he's crowdfunding an MMO or anything, but he did have plenty to say about Star Citizen and its chances for realizing the lofty goals set by developer Cloud Imperium. And of course MassivelyOP commenters had plenty to say about Star Citizen and Derek Smart. Some other...

Did you know that The Flash turns 75 this year? Yep, he does. And there's probably a joke about being a spry septuagenarian in there somewhere, but I'll leave that one for my fellow game bloggers. Daybreak has decided to celebrate Flash's big year with a one-minute DC Universe Online video clip filled with fast facts and in-game footage of both the man himself...