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Enter to win a copy of Wild Terra from Juvty and MOP!
B2P MMORPG sandbox Wild Terra isn't resting on its laurels: Developer Juvty Worlds patched up for the faux-holiday at the beginning of April, adding "crystal"...
Final Fantasy XIV invites the community to design physical DPS gear
Thus far, Final Fantasy XIV has run three gear design competitions for the community, inviting players to design gear for tanks, healers, and magical...
Bot-maker Bossland’s legit game flops, Germany rejects Blizzard’s US court victory and won’t enforce damages
Are you surprised to be hearing about Bossland again? We're surprised to be reporting on it. The German-based botmaker made headlines for the last...
Next year’s EVE Fanfest won’t be in Iceland, obviating your efforts to properly spell Reykjavik
Last autumn, when CCP Games began dumping assets and studios and VR holdings overboard, it also sent almost all of its EVE Online community...
Star Trek Online recruits a dozen Deep Space Nine actors for this summer’s expansion
The final Deep Space Nine cast members reprising their roles for Star Trek Online: Victory is Life were announced today, bringing the total up...
Portable forts and a replay function parachute into Fortnite
Just when you thought that Fortnite's battle royale couldn't get any crazier, Epic Games keeps upping the ante with ideas like Port-a-Fort.
That's right: There...
Snag your very own Tinker Bell in Black Desert today
Fairy companions are live in Black Desert today! Players so inclined can pick up their very own Fairy Laila through the Fairy Queen Theiah...
Pirates plunder Shroud of the Avatar
Way back when websites were a new and marvelous thing, creators often slapped a yellow "under construction" icon on them to indicate what should...
Blade and Soul’s robot dungeon event kicks off next week
Call 'em golems, call 'em automatons, or call 'em war machines, at the end of the day, they're robots in a fantasy setting, and...
Pantheon offers special PAX pledge tier worth $1000, gives five of them away in contest
Among the more unusual business model setups for the incoming wave of indie MMORPGs is Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's. As we've previously covered,...
GDC 2018: Bridging and embedding cross-platform online communities
As this year's GDC coverage is winding down, I am finally coming to the topic I saved for last: community. MMOs are more than just...
Black Desert holds global costume design contest
With thousands of dollars in real cash on the line, the stakes for Black Desert's global costume design contest are no chump change. Pearl...
Entropia Universe kicks off an event inspired by Ready Player One
The plot of the novel and upcoming film Ready Player One is that you can win total control of a virtual world by having...
Closers announces Tina as the winner of its next playable character contest
Remember when Closers asked players to decide on its next playable character? The votes were tallied, and Tina is joining the roster on April...
The MOP Up: Final Fantasy XIV gets primal (March 25, 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...
The Black Death has spawned an actual popularity contest
If you thought your days of losing popularity contests were over when you left school, think again! Indie survival sandbox The Black Death is...
Black Desert is introducing the Musa to its Southeast Asia servers
If you've been playing Black Desert in America for a while, you are not surprised to see the Musa. Heck, the Musa is downright...
EverQuest II teases a change to its monthly moonlight enchantments event
Fey mushroom rings are sprouting all over EverQuest II, marking the return of the monthly Moonlight Enchantments event. This one-day-only event comes and goes...
Perfect Ten: Why MMO progression servers are a brilliant idea
Over the past couple of weeks, I have been enjoying the journey through RIFT Prime, the game's first progression server. Trion Worlds surprised and...
Star Citizen on some of the big ships of alpha 3.1 and the St Patrick’s Day event
I hope you like starships because in this week's episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse, you're getting two whole segments on just that....