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Massively OP Interview: Dual Universe demo shows off advances in city building, space travel

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When you work in video games, you often get asked what new titles you are looking forward to. While experience has been teaching me...

EVE Evolved: Getting ready for EVE Online’s Abyssal revolution

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If you've seen the news recently coming out of EVE Fanfest 2018, you've probably heard of EVE Online's upcoming expansion: Into the Abyss. Pockets...

Massively Overthinking: How accountable should MMOs hold players for out-of-game toxicity?

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Brendan's discussion with CCP Falcon at EVE Fanfest last week included an interesting chat about out-of-game harassment and whether gaming companies had an obligation...

Impressions of Sea of Thieves, one month in: Deep-diving retro world PvP

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It's really hard for me to not to gush hard about Sea of Thieves. I know many out there won't agree, and it's easy to say why,...

EVE Fanfest 2018: CCP Falcon on EVE’s community team layoffs and having Hilmar as a CEO

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It's safe to say that it's been a rough year for CCP Games, with the company pulling out of VR game development and laying...

‘We all can be heroes:’ An interview with Star Trek Online’s Chase Masterson

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With a dozen members of the all-star cast of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine returning to reprise their roles for this June's Star Trek...

EVE Online’s ‘million dollar battle’ set a Guinness World Record for PvP battle concurrency

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Last January's much-hyped "million dollar battle" in EVE Online may have been a $3300 bust in terms of the value of the ships destroyed...

EVE Fanfest 2018: CCP Games has big plans for data collection and machine learning

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Every day in the sandbox of New Eden, several hundred thousand EVE Online players perform millions of unseen actions. Every item manufactured, module activated,...

EVE Fanfest 2018: Andrew Groen on the sequel to his popular EVE Online history book

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One of the most common comments you'll see in articles about big events in EVE Online is that it's a lot more entertaining to...

SuperData examines the lootbox controversy’s effect on EA and the gaming industry

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How big a deal with the lootbox controversy that finally hit the mainstream last year? Pretty big, SuperData argues. In a new blog post,...

Next year’s EVE Fanfest won’t be in Iceland, obviating your efforts to properly spell Reykjavik

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Last autumn, when CCP Games began dumping assets and studios and VR holdings overboard, it also sent almost all of its EVE Online community...

Defiance 2050 delays its console closed beta event, but the PC event will go on as planned

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A couple of weeks ago, Trion announced that it was prepping a big closed beta test for Defiance 2050 across all platforms - this...

The Soapbox: Three augmented reality game problems (most) MMOs don’t have – and one thing they do so much better

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I'd like to think that I'm kind of a healthy gamer. While MMOs take a lot of time, the nice thing is that their...

The MOP Up: Seal Online embraces a cartoony spirit (April 15, 2018)

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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...

EVE Fanfest 2018: Two EVE players were married by the space pope. Yep.

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Of all the fascinating things the EVE Online community has embraced over the game's almost 15-year lifetime, perhaps the most bizarre is space pope...

Massively Overthinking: The best of PAX East and GDC in 2018

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The past couple of weeks has been wild as we dispatched writers to GDC in San Francisco and PAX East in Boston to gather...

Here’s how to playtest Elder Scrolls Online’s Summerset chapter next week

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Summerset is closer than you think! The Elder Scrolls Online team announced today that the chapter is expected to hit the test server on...
But we should really not let these guys off the hook for talking big.

Ashes of Creation looks back at PAX East while promising a Q4 alpha

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If the only thing you want to take away from the latest bit of Ashes of Creation newsletter is information you may not have...

EVE Fanfest 2018: EVE Online’s upcoming ‘Into the Abyss’ expansion sounds incredible

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While player capsuleers are undoubtedly the most powerful force in EVE Online, there are some pretty scary NPCs lurking in the depths of space....

Ship of Heroes posts a timeline for the first half of 2018

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With a combat alpha under its belt, the superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes turns its attention to the challenges that lay ahead. The team...

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