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Here's a bit of meta for your afternoon: Massively Overpowered isn't just covering the news; we are the news! After Massively OP's whirlwind spring, renowned MMO clan Gaiscioch invited us to tell our resurrection story in the Live Epic: Leading a Memorable Life of Epic Adventure & Wonder edition of its massive volunteer magazine, which is on virtual newsstands as of this...

Release 17 for Shroud of the Avatar has landed, bringing with it one of the most revolutionary additions to the game yet: paver decorations for decks and patios! OK, maybe "revolutionary" is a strong word for it, but for those looking to create a stunning backyard, it can't but help the effort. The new patch came out last week and...

Free-to-play Korean action-MMO Echo of Soul lands in North American closed beta today. If you're eager to play, then you might just get a chance today, as publisher Aeria Games has granted Massively Overpowered 10 closed beta keys and "dungeon legend" founder packs to give away to you. The first 10 folks to clicky the key distro button below will...

Maybe it's just me, but with the steady drip of information that we've gotten about Final Fantasy XIV's first expansion, I find myself sometimes having trouble keeping track of what has and hasn't been discussed to death. There's a lot of stuff! And it's almost universally interesting stuff, at that. At least, it is if you're almost pathological in...

The voters have spoken, and EverQuest's newest progression server will be named Ragefire. "While the vote is still live in-game, Ragefire is ahead by a SIGNIFICANT margin and that'll be the name of our new time locked progression server," Daybreak said. The studio is continuing to take in player polls for various details on the progression server, although you can read...

A new biome is coming to SkySaga with its fourth alpha test: the desert. Of course, this being SkySaga and all, the desert promises to be a pretty cute and adorable place to visit, apparently drawing inspiration from the American southwest. The team's been dropping hints about what kind of flora and fauna players will encounter in the desert, including...

Elite: Dangerous is a work of science fiction; that's not under discussion. So as in all science fiction, the developers just created a galaxy by selecting random areas and dropping in planets or stars. By which we of course mean that the game has based as much of its space as possible on NASA data about what's out there in the...

I got a new gaming computer last week, and I'm in the process of downloading a few MMOs. I've only got 300 GB to work with, though, thanks to Comcast, it's godawful bandwidth restrictions, and the fact that it has a real live monopoly on internet service in my hometown. I've already downloaded and installed GTA Online (60 GB), Star Citizen (25 GB),...

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! You know what scared me the most about Daybreak's ongoing drama earlier this year? John Smedley stopped saying wild things in interviews and social media. But don't worry, guys; the Smed is back. This week he...

When I started writing about EVE Online for Massively back in 2008, the MMO genre was really hitting its stride, and emerging sites like Massively were starting to attract quite a bit of traffic. I was a young Computer Science student and massive EVE fanatic with just a few magazine articles and an amateur blog under my belt, equal...