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Third time's a charm with Reddit! Remember back in March when a Skyforge moderator threatened to ban anyone using the term pay-to-win and was summarily excoriated by the community for his trouble? Apparently the ArcheAge Reddit mods rather liked the idea and have decided to ban posts discussing pay-to-win issues on their subreddit. Lead moderator NSA-SURVEILLANCE (seriously) made the announcement yesterday (quoted...

What do you get when you stick a sandbox, voxels, and VR into a blender? You get Voxelnauts, a new voxelbox -- actually, they're calling it a "metaverse." The studio behind the game, Retro Ronin, touts devs with Starbound and Firefall and Oculus pedigrees and launched a $200,000 Kickstarter last night. The lowest de facto preorder tier is $20. "Inspiration for Voxelnauts is drawn...

So, Shroud of the Avatar got DDoSed yesterday. Shroud of the Avatar!? While there's really no excuse for any DDoS attack, it kind of blew my mind that someone would attack SOTA given the general likeability of its devs and the positive vibes given off by the game's community as a whole. I guess bad apples are everywhere, but still,...

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! NCsoft did not have the best week. Amidst WildStar's ongoing Reddit drama, NCsoft's first quarter financials broke, and rumors about WildStar's Steam launch as a supposedly F2P title began to brew. Korean mecha MMO Project HON was canceled,...

When CCP announced its far-reaching plans to overhaul EVE Online's territorial warfare gameplay, players were cautiously optimistic but understandably guarded. EVE's old sovereignty system saw the game's signature political rivalry and emergent warfare gradually morph into a stagnant universe in which a few massive coalitions held practically all of the power. What started out as alliances naturally joining forces...

Hey Elite fans, did you miss Friday's newsletter #75? If so, it's worth reading for the news about the Mac client and the Powerplay beta. Originally the beta was scheduled for May 19th, but Frontier has delayed it, which will also delay the full release. The Mac client is now live, and Frontier says that if you already own Elite: Dangerous, you're...

If you're having trouble accessing Shroud of the Avatar's website or game, don't worry -- it's not you. The devs posted a notice on Steam to inform the community that they're currently weathering a DDoS attack and hope to be back up and running normally soon. In the meantime, there's a new Update of the Avatar to digest, complete with...

Did you miss Guild Wars 2's Points of Interest stream on Friday? Me too. Every game seems to stream on Friday, and it's hard to watch 'em all! Fortunately, Dulfy's done the hard work of parsing the whole stream for the highlights on the recently revealed Necromancer Reaper spec in the upcoming Heart of Thorns expansion. Game Designer Robert Gee reveals that the...

What do you do when you've already sold something that hasn't been fully built yet -- and might need to be changed from its original design? For Crowfall, the strategy is to come out ahead of such changes and communicate with crowdfunding backers as to what will happen when this occurs. ArtCraft posted five steps that the team will follow...

Do you ever stop to realize just how much weirdness we see and dismiss every day as MMO gamers? If a fraction of the sights we witness in-game happened in real life, we'd be YouTubing and tweeting that crap in hopes to get it viral. Take our first player screenshot this week as an example. Here's a confluence of bizarre...