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EVE Evolved: What to expect from EVE Fanfest 2016
Ask the average gamer what he knows about EVE Online and after the word "boring" and a spreadsheet joke or two, he'll probably talk about stories...
EVE Fanfest kicks off next week
CCP couldn't have timed it better if it had tried: This year's EVE Fanfest will kick off in Reykjavik, Iceland, next weekend, smack in...
WoW emulator Nostalrius’ sunset renews calls for retro WoW servers
As we reported last night, Blizzard lawyers issued a legal threat against popular vanilla World of Warcraft emulator server Nostalrius, propelling its administrators to begin...
MechWarrior Online announces its 2016 world championships
Fancy yourself an accomplished 'Mech pilot? Then you'll want to get seven of your best friends to form a team for the MechWarrior Online...
Blizzard confirms BlizzCon dates: November 4th and 5th
Blizzard has just confirmed that this year's BlizzCon is on for November 4th and 5th in Anaheim. That means it's almost time to fight to...
Path of Exile reveals the Lightning Golem and prepares to go to China
Lightning golems have been consistently voted as one of the best ways to deal shocking electric death to your enemies during the Annual Elemental...
The MOP Up: Paragon recruits Sevarog (April 3, 2016)
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...
Neverwinter whips up a new tabletop campaign for April
You might recall that the too-clever-by-half Neverwinter team created a game-within-a-game a while back, transforming players into tabletop figures to go through a campaign...
The Game Archaeologist: The Wish that wasn’t
First of all, "wish" is one of those words that ends up looking dang strange the more you focus on it. Wish, wish, wish,...
Star Trek Online’s mid-season Temporal Front update arrives next month
PWE and Cryptic announced this afternoon that Star Trek Online's mid-season update is due to begin on April 12th. It'll kick off with the Temporal...
Rumor: BlizzCon 2016 aims for November 4-5
When is this year's BlizzCon? We don't know. It hasn't even been officially announced yet. But the eagle-eyed folks over at MMO Champion spotted...
GDC 2016: Diablo’s UI was designed to pass the ‘mom test’
David Brevik, one of the original co-founders of Blizzard North and probably best known to MMO players for his long tenure at the helm...
Neverwinter’s Portobello’s Campaign game-within-a-game launches March 31
If you enjoyed last year's Acquisitions, Inc. live D&D event from PAX Prime 2015, then you're going to love Cryptic's latest stunt. It's called Portobello's...
Nexon’s LawBreakers will be a Steam exclusive, won’t be free-to-play
CliffyB's Nexon-backed shooter LawBreakers isn't breaking the law, but it might be breaking hearts over those medial capitals, am I right? At GDC this week,...
Guild Wars 2 team streams ‘Building Online Spaces for a Massive Community’ panel from SXSW
If you're not at GDC or SXSW this week, then you might be feeling a bit left out of the video game industry hoopla,...
ARK poop as planned suicide, and new dinos will add to the pile
If you learn nothing else today, you'll have this: ARK: Survival Evolved's poop was designed as a suicide measure. Seriously. According to Studio Wildcard...
GDC 2016: PlayStation VR launches in October for $399
Sony's PlayStation VR is launching in October with a $399 pricetag, significantly less than the tech world assumed and much less than the Vive...
Paradox and Obsidian are plotting something big at GDC
Update: The new game is called Tyranny, and it's not VtM-themed -- full update and PR/trailer at the end of the post.
Paradox Interactive is...
Player-created space cities arrive in EVE Online when Citadel launches April 27
CCP has announced that EVE Online's next big expansion, Citadel, is officially landing on April 27th following EVE Fanfest. At the heart of the expansion...
The Game Archaeologist: The sad saga of Stargate Worlds
In 1994, a science-fiction movie called Stargate took the idea of alien portals that allowed people to travel instantaneously across the universe and turned it...