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Guild Wars 2 AMA covers lockboxes, old dungeons, and economy quirks

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Last night, ArenaNet's Mike O'Brien and 16 other members of the Guild Wars 2 live team hopped on Reddit for an AMA coinciding with...

Enter the Breach in Path of Exiles’ next league, launching December 2

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If you've ever wanted to call out "Once more unto the Breach!" as a battle cry, Path of Exile offers you just that chance...
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EVE Online is officially free-to-play today with Ascension

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"We are happy to announce that EVE Online: Ascension has been successfully deployed!" That's the word out of Icelandic MMORPG studio CCP Games this morning,...

Black Desert Online merges down into EU and NA ‘New World’ servers

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If you ever thought that Black Desert's server structure was unwieldy and esoteric, good news for you! Kakao has announced that the western version...
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Ascent: The Space Game’s presidential election and player-run GoFundMe

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Among the fun quirks of sandboxes is the political intrigue they can spawn. One such drama is currently unfolding in indie sci-fi sandbox Ascent: The...

Cross-platform space MMO Nebula Online has launched today

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EVE Online has a little bit of competition in the hardcore kitchen this month, as indie title Nebula Online launched today on iOS, Android,...

EVE Online GMs removed at least 25 trillion ISK worth $400,000 from the game

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If you've been reading the gaming news this week, you may have heard about the enormous amount of wealth that was recently removed from EVE...

EVE Evolved: Alpha Clone economics, bragging rights, and restrictions

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Yesterday at EVE Vegas 2016, developer CCP Rise held us spellbound with tales of his recent misadventures in EVE Online recently when pretending to...

Kakao permabans Black Desert shovel exploiters

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This past weekend, Black Desert devs disabled some unusual items in the game: shovels and empty bottles. It turned out that exploiters had been using...

Black Desert’s patch today buffs the Tamer with her awakening weapon

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Today's Black Desert update adds the Tamer's awakening weapon, a bo staff that expands the Tamer's melee abilities: "The Celestial Bo Staff allows Tamers to...

Black Desert acknowledges infinite gathering bug, promises ‘action’ against exploiters

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Last weekend, Black Desert devs disabled some unusual items in the game: shovels and empty bottles. While at the time, Kakao said it had...

The MOP Up: Neverwinter brings the thunder to consoles (October 23, 2016)

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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...

Hardcore sci-fi MMO Nebula Online leaves early access for launch in November

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Back at the beginning of 2015, a plucky "old-school hardcore sci-fi" MMORPG called Nebula Online put forth a Kickstarter to build "the perfect MMO"...
Well, I'll take it, but I won't pay much for it.

Crowfall on its player-driven economy as inspired by classic MMORPGs

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If you've been keeping an eye on Crowfall's recent crafting updates and are wondering how exactly everything fits together in the PvP-centric MMORPG, then...

Riders of Icarus will allow players to trade cash shop items on the AH

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Riders of Icarus' economy is about to experience a seismic change with the next update, as the game will allow for the resale of...

Tamriel Infinium vs Hyperspace Beacon: Three ways to make lockboxes work better in MMORPGs

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Last week, I stirred up a hornet’s nest by bringing up the topic of lockboxes and how I really didn’t mind them in general. Hyperspace...

Guild Wars 2 changes course on its economy and PvP

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Guild Wars 2's resident economist John Smith made an announcement on the official forums yesterday, and no, it wasn't about butter, but it was...

7 Days to Die publishes its ‘biggest content drop to date’

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It's heady times for alpha players of 7 Days to Die. The zombie survival sandbox released its Alpha 15 update earlier this morning, which...

Shroud of the Avatar’s R34 delivers Halloween, culinary utility, and /pukeblood

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Release 34 has launched for Shroud of the Avatar players as of this morning along with a large balance and polish pass for both the...
I mean, nothing is real.

Crowfall’s Raph Koster and Thomas Blair on the challenges of MMORPG harvesting

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Harvesting in an MMORPG is just the boring gruntwork you have to trudge through before you can get to the glory of crafting --...

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