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The downside of E3 pre-conferences coming earlier and earlier is that the event just gets longer and longer, but the upside is that you can find out some pretty neat stuff ahead of time. Bethesda held a pre-E3 event yesterday, and it contained some pretty fascinating information for players of The Elder Scrolls Online, including video of the Imperial...

I feel like the odd man out when it comes to mobile (or more specifically for MassivelyOP's purposes, mobile MMOs). Everyone I know seems to love staring at tiny screens during commutes and smudging them to death while fumbling about with the latest in ham-fisted, view-obscuring touch controls. Me, I prefer to sit in my overstuffed easy chair in front of...

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! The Elder Scrolls Online made its way to consoles this week, though it's not been without login problems and setbacks that linger even today as I type this. Here on MOP, we discussed the pros and...

In the latest episode of EVE Online's livestreamed o7 Show, game designers CCP Fozzie and CCP Larrikin revealed some controversial changes that are on the way for the game's fleet warp mechanics. A fleet commander can currently warp his entire fleet to the same location with one button press, but July's Aegis patch will be severely limit this feature....

Torchlight has no shortage of fans devoted to the stylized action RPG, and this week those fans have a new reason to rejoice. The series will soon be making its way to mobile platforms, perhaps this year. Torchlight Mobile is being developed by Perfect World and Runic Games, which could both indicate a free-to-play model and multiplayer aspects. The website...

The RvR frontier of Dark Age of Camelot is about to heat up, as Broadsword is on the verge of unleashing its multi-month Otherworlds Campaign. The Otherworlds Campaign, which will commence when Patch 1.118 releases, will take players through a story arc in the summer and fall. Players will have opportunities in both PvE and PvP to progress through the campaign's...

It's a dark day for those who were hoping to see a return to the classic era of Darkfall. A few weeks ago, player enthusiasm for a pre-Unholy Wars server had prompted Aventurine to investigate the possibility of creating such a world. Now the studio says that it has decided to kill the project and redouble its efforts on Unholy...

I can't say that I'm the biggest fan of bagpipe music, although I do harbor a certain fascination for any musical instrument that looks like the innards of a monster. Still, how often do you see bagpipes in MMOs? I've spied them only in Lord of the Rings Online, and there only rarely. Reader Ratstew took this photogenic shot of...

MMO companies do their collective best to make sure that people don't find out certain pieces of information ahead of time, which makes it all the more obvious when people do find out ahead of time. And it happens with fair regularity. Rumors come out, leaks happen, teaser images go out, and someone posts a byte-by-byte analysis that concludes...

BioWare accidentally revealed its Star Wars: The Old Republic announcement for E3 this weekend, and -- spoiler alert -- this could be a game changer. The leaked page, which began, "A man can have anything... if he's willing to sacrifice everything," tells the players about a shake-up that will hit the primary storyline in October. It mentions a new major...