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Undead Labs' OARPGTCG -- I'm totally coining that -- Moonrise is due to hit Steam early access next week on May 27th. It's launching with two editions for PC and Mac: the $15 Warden version, which comes with exclusive skins, gold, and gems; and the $20 Guildmaster version, which comes with even more exclusive skins, gold, and gems. If you'd...

Are you the guy who looked at Overwatch's character lineup and said, "Nah, get rid of that robot with twin chainguns; I want to play a guy with a pistol or a bow"? Hey, you got your wish. The latest two preview videos for the game focus on McCree and Hanzo, the Old West gunslinger and the Japanese archery...

Classic servers and progression servers are on my mind lately. EverQuest just got yet another progression server; it had launch issues, but it's up now. Lineage II is getting a classic server. RuneScape has one already. Darkfall's considering it. Ultima Online... well, UO has Siege Perilous, which is old school only harder-core. We've even argued that Lord of the...

This week's Massively Overthinking topic comes to us from an anonymous Kickstarter donor, who wanted to talk about excessive namecalling jargon as it pertains to groups of players in MMOs: Regarding sneering terms for players (whales, carebears): Why is it considered inherently superior to prefer to play for free, and to think smashing other players' heads in is fun? Of course, it's not...

Gloria Victis has published its version 0.2 pre-alpha changelog. The dev team says that this build is the first public version of the fantasy sandbox that uses Unity 5, and it asks that testers report all bugs and issues on the game's forums. The new version also includes a new work-in-progress island, new trees courtesy of SpeedTree 5, an optional...

Feeling the urge to travel vast, untamed lands? Then it might be up to Age of Wushu to fill that need. The martial arts sandbox opened the doors to its latest expansion today called The Warrior's Journey, and it is what some players are dubbing "the explorer's expansion." The road trip in The Warrior's Journey starts with its five additional...

Turbine executive producer Athena Peters has posted a new producer's letter on the Lord of the Rings Online forums. In it, she outlines the firm's plans for the remainder of 2015, including "major content initiatives" and "major service upgrades" for the long-running Tolkien MMO. There's a new PvMP map in the works (yes, you read that right); it's designed to...

If you had been under the impression that World of Warcraft's personal loot was already equivalent in reward amounts to group loot, well... maybe not, as the most recent development post specifically states that the former is being changed to match the latter. But the good news is it will change to that in the game's next patch, along...

After NCsoft solicited the Lineage II playerbase last month about whether or not it wanted a classic server in Europe, the community has answered with a resounding "Yes please!" The studio said that far more than the required 15,000 signatures on a classic server petition were submitted, triggering the official go-ahead for the project. NCsoft gave a broad overview of...

Players spend a lot of time staring at the hulls of their EVE Online ships, so it makes sense to make those ships as attractive as possible. This was the motivation behind the first complete overhaul of the game's lighting and reflections model, and now the team is doing it all again. Another art rework and update is in...