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NetEase’s Age of Exploration MMO Ocean Legend sets sail for mobile
Multiple new-to-us games calling themselves MMORPGs seem to land on mobile devices every week these days. On our radar today is Ocean Legend. Live on...
TERA Europe to merge down to four servers
TERA's had a busy month, what with the console launch and its Godsfall update. May is going to try its hardest to keep this...
Giveaway: Snag a Stronghold Kingdoms loot code from Firefly and MOP!
MMORTS Stronghold Kingdoms is counting seven million players across all platforms this week as well as preparing for the launch of a brand-new European...
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...
Aion Europe prepares for server merges later this month
The merges are coming! The merges are coming! Aion Europe players have under two weeks to prepare for merges designed to "populate Atreia more...
Guild Wars 2 used client-side spyware to aid its latest purge of potential cheaters
ArenaNet's just gone on a purge of potential cheaters in Guild Wars 2.
"Yesterday we suspended 1,583 accounts for a period of 6 months," Gaile...
Pokemon Go is mustering players to clean up the planet for Earth Day
In all my years working for Massively and Massively OP, we've never had enough Earth Day events for a proper roundup. That isn't changing...
Black Desert prepares to switch service providers for better service
Graphics and music aren't the only aspects of Black Desert that are getting an upgrade -- the team announced that it will be switching...
ArcheAge 4.5 Legends Return launches tonight with new fresh start servers
ArcheAge's 4.5 update is going live tonight, complete with raise-able dragon battle mounts and shadow invasion content provoked when big world bosses are downed....
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...
GDC 2018: Ultima Online post-mortem with Richard Garriott, Starr Long, Raph Koster, and Rich Vogel
Plenty of panels at GDC are recorded and uploaded to the internet weeks after the event, including this one. It's not quite the same...
Snail’s mobile MMO Blade Reborn plans global launch on March 27
Here's another one we've never heard of: Blade Reborn. It's a Snail Games mobile game, and the studio is calling it a full-fledged action...
World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth sells physical pre-purchases in Europe
Why would somebody want to pick up a physical box with a digital game code inside of it in 2018? It's hard to say,...
SoulWorker Online will not wipe servers but will apparently be IP blocked
There are certain expectations you have when a free-to-play game is in open beta with a full launch planned for later. For example, you...
Academics argue WHO’s ‘gaming disorder’ is arbitrary, criticize lack of evidentiary transparency
Researchers and self-regulatory bodies are continuing their denouncement of the World Health Organization's plan to classify "gaming addiction" as a "gaming disorder." The Entertainment...
Black Desert celebrates two years and three million players in the west
Black Desert isn't content to celebrate its second western anniversary with just an in-game event and some free stuff, oh no. Today it's rolled...
Aion Europe celebrates its sixth birthday
Spread your wings and fly with the angels: Aion is turning six years old, at least in its European incarnation.
From March 1st through the...
World of Warcraft emulators forge forward in a post-Classic announcement era
Curious about what's going to happen to all of those World of Warcraft legacy emulators with WoW Classic on the way? It doesn't look...
The MOP Up: Black Desert’s Ninja arrives in Southeast Asia (February 11, 2018)
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...
Pokemon Go adds Rayquaza, European shop events, and raid fixes
Hey trainers! Legendary pokemon Rayquaza joins the raid fun "for a limited time" in Pokemon Go beginning today through March 16th.
"In celebration, Pokémon originally...