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Darkfall: New Dawn’s next patch will increase performance, clarify meditation system
Darkfall: New Dawn's load lag and subpar performance will be nipped in the bud with the game's next patch -- or so the developers...
Star Trek Online talks about its new ‘classic’ ship designs and Temporal Defense reputation
Fans of the original Star Trek series (TOS) know that, due to budget and technological limitations, there weren't a lot of different Starfleet ship...
Albion Online’s artifact weapons are coming this summer
Coming this summer to an MMO near you will be mighty artifact weapons -- and no, we're not talking about Legion here. Albion Online is...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s third raid wing
Forsaken Thicket is set to get much larger and... lanier... today: I was given the opportunity to test out the third wing of Guild Wars 2's...
Today’s Neverwinter update adds guild alliances, logical campaign paths
Going live around noon EDT today in Neverwinter is Guild Alliances, a large update to the Maze Engine campaign. Players will be able to...
Extended draw distance is one of the ways Legion will make WoW prettier
Step aside, details about class halls and specs, because this weekend Blizzard turned its attention to World of Warcraft: Legion's... draw distance. Yeah, maybe it's...
The MOP Up: EVE Online phases out DirectX 9 (June 5, 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...
Black Death has four disgusting states of infection
First of all, we hope you weren't planning on eating for the rest of today. No? Good. Black Death, the upcoming survival sandbox centered...
Skyforge goes on a nerfing-and-buffing spree with Cybernetic Alliance
As part of its upcoming Cybernetic Alliance update, Skyforge's dev team is taking on the daunting task of rebalancing all of its classes, with...
H1Z1 preps Ignition mode for tomorrow, shows off its new map
Heady times are upon H1Z1, especially if you're playing the PvP version (that's King of the Kill, in case you've lost track). The good...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Unpacking the proposed Guild Wars 2 WvW scoring improvements
In my last edition of Flameseeker Chronicles, I outlined ArenaNet's recent WvW player poll and discussed the possible implications of voting for each of...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Dark Brotherhood DLC buffs up the group finder
Are you into grouping in The Elder Scrolls Online? Good news for you: ZeniMax says today in a new dev blog that it's focused...
WildStar swaps NCoin for Protobucks ahead of Steam launch
WildStar is still on the way to Steam, you'll be happy to hear, at least if you've been following NCsoft's latest quarterly financials. Carbine's...
Chekov joins Star Trek Online in Agents of Yesterday
Over the years, Star Trek Online has become a high school reunion of sorts for actors from the movies and various series. One of...
How Elder Scrolls Online converts veteran ranks to champion points
ZeniMax has just posted a deep-dive into the veteran rank system obliteration coming with The Elder Scrolls Online's Dark Brotherhood DLC. "The goal for...
Worlds Adrift’s deserts aren’t deserted
Don't fall for the mistake of thinking that all deserts are boring and vacant wastelands. In both reality and in the hands of talented...
Empyrean is building ‘MMOs you can beat’
Empyrean Interactive is coining a new acronym this season: PCA, which stands for persistent cooperative adventure, a "radically different" take on the MMO genre.
Studio...
Star Trek Online’s tale of two Leetas
If Star Trek has taught us anything, it's that midriffs and goatees signify that you're from an evil parallel universe -- and that more...
Chronicles of Elyria roars past $422,000 in its Kickstarter campaign
Two days into its Kickstarter campaign, Chronicles of Elyria is hardly slowing from its sprint out of the gate. The fantasy MMO sandbox has...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Weighing in on the Guild Wars 2 WvW poll
The first WvW poll is about to close and the votes have been flying in during the last few days, driving home that Guild Wars...