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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...

I am traveling again for Massively OP, and that means not much in the way of MMOs for me for a little while. When I get back, sure. Right now, no. It's a bit of a shame; my laptop can't really handle most of what I play, and even if it could I don't exactly trust it. Of course, these...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Gloria Victis developer Black Eye Games let us know that it's in "the home stretch" in terms of upgrading its fantasy sandbox to the Unity 5 engine. What's the big deal with that? Well, a 50 percent framerate increase, for starters, not to mention improved eye candy. Elsewhere, indie PvP sandbox Das Tal officially kicked...

Which Overwatch character are you going to pick when you get into the beta? That's a hard call to make before you can actually get in and sample each of them, although preview videos are the next best thing in making this decision. Today we've got two Overwatch gameplay videos for you, both showing off a PvP match in this...