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I read yesterday's news about Meridian 59 with interest because it's one of the few genre titles that was before my time. My MMO obsession began in Ultima Online circa 1997, which was a year or so after M59's commercial launch. I've always meant to check out the latter, though, and now I've got even more motivation to do so since...

Today's EVE Online website update is about, well EVE Updates. It's basically a new section of the EVE site devoted to what's coming next in CCP's sci-fi sandbox. "From now on, all information about upcoming changes to EVE Online can be found on EVE Updates - and as we announce features, we will put information about them there," CCP...

It's time for another exciting roundup of Newegg's best deals here on Massively Overpowered. Any Egg Hunt that involves the discovery of robots is obviously top notch. Obviously, act soon because these deals are totally limited time. IRobot Roomba 880 Automatic Robotic Vacuum Cleaner - $499.99 w/$200 off code AFNJ1265 at Newegg.com, exp. 04/24 $140 OFF Lenovo T430 14" Notebook with Intel...

Wargaming is doing away with three-player premades in its World of Warplanes aerial battler. The firm's latest dev blog says that three-player flights have an average win ratio of 66 percent. That number rises when the three-flight in question is "well trained," which has Wargaming concerned about balance and inequality not only for the losing teams but for the winning...

Where will your favorite MMO be in two decades? If it's Meridian 59, it may be still operating. The title, which originally launched in September of 1996, is now open source and supported by a community of volunteers who are maintaining and updating the project. The game's latest patch notes mention "mostly infrastructure changes" but also "some improvements that have been on...

ArenaNet can't stop talking about competitive Guild Wars 2 PvP here lately, and today brings us a blog post focused on the World Tournament Series Championship. The next set of champions will be crowned at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany on August 8th. Prior to that, there are qualifiers and ESL matches galore in which teams will need to place highly to...

I've been playing a lot of GTA Online here lately, and while the recently released PC version ups the multiplayer ante over its console counterparts by supporting 30 avatars and a couple of spectators, that's still a far cry from the number that I've arbitrarily assigned as the cutoff for calling something an MMO. I say arbitrarily because of course...

If for some reason you want to play Elder Scrolls Online on a console (I dunno, maybe you hate UI mods and bleeding edge graphics?), you don't have much longer to wait. ZeniMax's themepark MMO officially launches on June 9th. If you're a PlayStation 4 owner, you've got even less time to wait, since the beta starts tomorrow. You'll need...

Do you want more supplemental material to round out your Shroud of the Avatar experience? Do you occasionally walk into your local comic store and flip tables while demanding a Shroud of the Avatar comic? Because if so, that would be insane. It would also be totally unnecessary, as a Shroud of the Avatar comic now exists, and nowhere...

The latest update to Lineage II is pushing beyond all of the its various limitations. Tired of the level cap? It's gone. No, not expanded, just... gone, apparently. Players can also push onward to a new tier of advancement past Noblesse, becoming Exalted and gaining access to new exclusive skills and the like. There are also two new zones,...