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Albion Online alters resource respawns and rune rewards
Resources matter in Albion Online, and major changes to the respawn rates of resources is going to shake up the game's economy significantly. The...
Dark and Light apologizes for rollbacks following the ice caves patch
Nobody wants to see the word "rollback" associated with a game, including the designers. You can tell that the staff behind Dark and Light...
Hyperspace Beacon: A happy accident in Star Wars The Old Republic gives us hope for the future of CXP
The last couple of weeks have been really rough week for Star Wars: The Old Republic from a technical standpoint. The Umbara update itself...
Guild Wars 2 is running another Path of Fire stress test on Thursday
Quick show of hands, who in the audience would like to break the Guild Wars 2 servers? Well, that's... that's a lot of hands,...
War Thunder adds Emperor’s Garden map, postpones War Diaries storyline
With a rousing game of Wingball wrapping up over the holiday weekend, War Thunder turns its attention to the next big addition to the...
Final Fantasy XI makes high-quality items a bit easier to nab
High-quality items in Final Fantasy XI can be a bit of a bear to acquire. High-quality base items aren't common, and they're difficult to...
Shroud of the Avatar rolls out R45, in spite of losing a week of work due to a software bug
Shroud of the Avatar rolled out another release on Thursday, imbuing the game's 45th update with what it's calling a huge amount of work...
The MOP Up: Warframe battles cancer (September 3, 2017)
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...
Camelot Unchained designs beta siege battles
It's not hard to imagine the Camelot Unchained fan as a curious and excitable prairie dog popping up whenever the word "beta" is mentioned....
Niantic is releasing new Pokemon Go raids despite major bugs
Hot on the heels of its legendary bird raids, Pokemon Go will have Generation 2's legendary dogs as the game's newest raids starting August 31st. As the...
Star Citizen counts the 3.0 bugs it’s quashed and the toilets on the Origin 600i
This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse is more or less a recap of Gamescom and a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the chaos behind the...
ARK Survival Evolved suffers launch-day overcrowding, optimization issues.
How weird is it not to categorize this ARK: Survival Evolved post under alphas and beta? Pretty weird.
Citadel. Unicorns. That’s all you need to know.
Are you pure of heart? Innocent of character? A dreamer who walks the forest and sings its song? What are we saying, of course...
Overwatch opens up Junkertown and major changes to heroes on the test realm
The test realm for Overwatch is going to get trashed. The latest test realm patch is bringing players to Junkertown for a new escort...
Perfect Ten: The 10 saddest MMORPG stories
Every MMO tells a story through the run of its life. A lot of those stories are pretty happy, too. Ultima Online may not...
The MOP Up: State of Decay 2’s multiplayer mayhem (August 27, 2017)
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...
One Shots: Alien sunset
I will admit that I've been craving a good space exploration sim lately -- the burn to "explore strange new worlds" is rising inside...
The Game Archaeologist: Furcadia
Let's face it: There isn't really a huge pool of MMORPGs from the 1990s to explore in this column. By now I have done...
Hyperspace Beacon: Impressions of SWTOR’s Crisis on Umbara update
I questioned BioWare's delay of the latest update for Star Wars: The Old Republic. According to a post on the official forums, the team...
Final Fantasy XIV celebrates another anniversary with The Rising
Once more, a year has passed in Final Fantasy XIV, and once more the Wandering Minstrel is back around to prompt adventurers to join...