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H1Z1: Just Survive tests out quality-of-life update, conducts community survey
Could Daybreak be making good on its promise to give some love to H1Z1: Just Survive? It certainly seems so now that there's a...
Elite Dangerous players accuse Frontier of ignoring combat exploit
If you thought that your politically divided family dinner table will be the most awkward situation this Thanksgiving week, then you need to haul...
The Daily Grind: Do you make use of your MMORPG’s public test realms?
The patch server. The PTR. The PTS. Whatever your MMORPG calls it, it's probably got one: some sort of publicly accessible server that gets the...
FIFA hackers charged with stealing millions in spoofing scheme
Don't ever let anyone tell you it's just a game and exploits aren't a big deal: A group of FIFA players are standing trial...
TERA teases Fang and Feather update
Last month, TERA was all about the Sorcerer and its Spellbound update. But as they say, that was then and this is now. What...
Dual Universe on post-Kickstarter funding and mining in the sandbox
Dual Universe's latest newsletter since its successful Kickstarter funding back in October is out this week. Novaquark tells players that it's almost finished building...
Kakao permabans Black Desert shovel exploiters
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
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
Last weekend, Black Desert devs disabled some unusual items in the game: shovels and empty bottles. While at the time, Kakao said it had...
Black Desert players claim to have dug up a massive infinite-gathering exploit
Over the weekend, Daum disabled shovels and empty bottles in Black Desert. Why? The "team discovered a bug with the current implementation" -- that's the...
Comparing American and Japanese Pokemon Go culture
My previous article on the culture of Japan's Pokemon Go scene was written before I'd experienced much of the American one to keep my explanations...
Riders of Icarus plans ‘new banning initiative,’ will name and shame cheaters
Riders of Icarus' latest producer's letter makes a grim admission: "Since Head Start, Riders of Icarus has been riddled with spammers and bots."
"We understand...
Overwatch players are warned: use Lucio in Lucioball or face consequences
The whole point of Overwatch's Lucioball mode is that everyone plays as Lucio. The name of the mode is already "Lucioball," the only character...
RuneScape helps its players through the wilderness
RuneScape's Wilderness area is a dangerous and tantalizing area, full of hazards and lucrative opportunities to grow your character (and his or her coffers)....
Grav takes steps to join the MMO club
What happens when you take a survival sandbox and start linking together all of its servers? You might actually end up with something that...
Final Fantasy XIV bans more than 6,000 accounts for RMT
Making money in Final Fantasy XIV isn't necessarily easy. You have to play the free market quite a bit to acquire large amounts of...
Perfect Ten: Older PC games that would make for great MMOs
Video games had a huge impact on my childhood and teenage years, imprinting themselves onto my psyche for all of the struggles and elation...
Warframe was hacked in 2014 to the tune of almost 800,000 email addresses
If you've been playing Warframe a long time, it's a good time to refresh your account credentials.
Vice's Motherboard blog reports this week that it...
Blizzard is quietly fighting Overwatch toxicity
If you've started to notice that the community in Overwatch has started to turn vicious in the past few weeks, you're not alone.
In an...
The MOP Up: Path of Exile’s Q&A bonanza (July 10, 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...
