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World of Warcraft: Legion overview panel recap
There's an expansion in the works for World of Warcraft. That's not news. It's the details of that expansion that fans have been anxiously...
Rust opens player-created item store
Rust is the latest online game to open up an item store, but it's actually more interesting than it sounds. The store sells only...
Escape from Tarkov brings realistic military action to MMOs
There's a new player on the MMO scene, and this bad boy wants to do military action right.
The game in question is Escape from...
WoW Factor: What WoW Legion needs from BlizzCon
It's go time tomorrow: BlizzCon is almost here, and I'm going to be liveblogging my way through most of the event. And boy, it's coming at...
Albion Online gets ready for closed beta
Albion Online is ticking down to the official start of its closed beta test on November 23rd, and in a new state of the...
Get some Trove and Devilian goodies in this week’s Humble Bundle
It looks as though Trion Worlds has thrown in with Humble Bundle's Extra Life promotion, as both Devilian and Trove have made appearances in...
Elite’s Horizons beta starts November 9
Development for Elite: Dangerous is moving right along, as evidenced by a recent livestream featuring Frontier founder David Braben that's been summarized on Reddit.
The...
World of Fishing is now in open beta
I like to fish in MMOs. Which is strange because I don't much like to fish in meatspace. My favorite MMO fishing mechanics were in...
Guild Wars 2 starts testing 64-bit client
Your Guild Wars 2 client could be getting an upgrade in the near future, particularly if you have the hardware to handle it.
ArenaNet Game...
NCsoft promises Lineage Eternal’s closed beta testing next year
Over the summer, NCsoft was conducting small-scale focus-group testing for Lineage Eternal, another sequel for the bafflingly popular and profitable Lineage MMORPG. In fact, two more such...
Global Chat: The frustrations and joys of Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns
The player debate and analysis over the virtues and vices of Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns has -- unsurprisingly -- evoked strong opinions...
The Stream Team: Touring EverQuest II’s Terrors of Thalumbra beta
Who wants to wait until Terrors of Thalumbra goes live before poking around in it? Not MssivelyOP's MJ! EQII's expansion won't launch for another...
Let the NPCs handle your busy work with Albion Online’s laborers
There are certain tedious tasks that are just better left up to automation sometimes. Sure, you need a steady flow of incoming wood and...
Asta kicks off its first beta test in the West
Will Asta be a success here after its poor fate in its native land? It's too early to say, but you can start making...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2’s immediate future
I imagine that the launch of Heart of Thorns was quite a bittersweet event for the ArenaNet gang: The sense of relief and celebration...
Dogma: Eternal Night brings MMO vampires to Kickstarter
Do you need a game that's so dark that if it were any darker it'd be a pure black rectangle on your monitor? Are...
Activision-Blizzard Q3 2015: World of Warcraft drops 100K subs, Actibliz buys Candy Crush dev for $5.9B
Strange things are afoot at Blizzard Activision.
Even while the studio is preparing for BlizzCon and the trailer reveal for the Warcraft movie, it announced...
It’s Kung Fu Master week in Blade & Soul
Do you know kung fu? The Blade & Soul Kung Fu Master does, clearly, and today NCsoft decided to kick off Kung Fu Master...
The MOP Up: Free Tribes for all (November 1, 2015)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
The Game Archaeologist: Seed
Seed is a game that I thought I must have dreamed up at some point. Do you ever have that happen? For years I...
