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Mo takes on an unimpressed crab miniboss with his newfound companions in his very first PUG.

If you are a Mortal Online player, you were probably in heaven this past weekend, as the game patched in a whole new continent full of content. Patch 1.82 introduced the lands of Sarducaa, a desert-themed realm teeming with dangerous creatures, dark dungeons, and all sorts of treasure. It also arrived with an important caveat from Star Vault: "Sarducaa comes...

The now-annual City of Heroes "Loregasm" is complete, with ex-developers Matt Miller and Sean McCann delivering another wealth of insights into the late, great superhero MMO. The pair tackled dozens and dozens of questions like champs in the community Q&A. One revelation is that the team never planned to fully redeem the sinister Lord Recluse: "I don't think we planned...

News is circulating in the EVE Online blogs and forum that developer CCP Games has just bought back $20 million in publicly traded bonds. The bonds were sold to the public back in 2013 and required the company to publish detailed financial accounts each year for investors to see. Now that the bonds have been bought back, CCP no...

It's not always a foregone conclusion that Blizzard will emerge triumphant from its many court cases. Recently, it chalked one up in the "loss" column, as a judge ruled against the studio's request for an injunction against Diablo gold-selling company Bossland GmbH. Blizzard brought the lawsuit to bear in Germany, claiming that the actions of the website were "anti-competitive." A lower court...

The Elder Scrolls Online is inching closer and closer to its console launch just three weeks from now, and that means... trailers! The last video covered the game's freedom and sandboxy choices; today's episode in this four-part video series is called "The Elder Scrolls With Friends" and focuses on unscripted multiplayer experiences, siege warfare, alliances, public and private dungeons, level-scaling, world...

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,...