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Smart Social Gaming: Why people play social games and other topics non-gamers don’t get

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While those of us who write for MassivelyOP do try give you all the scientific resources we can to help you fight back against your...

Boat mounts, Halloween, and Billy the Kid blast into Wizard101 and Pirate101

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As Pirate101 celebrates its fifth birthday this month, there is no shortage of things to keep budding buccaneers occupied in this strategy MMO. New...

Free Realms ‘Sunrise’ emulator prepares for second alpha test

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Last year, almost three years after SOE shut down Free Realms for good, a group of players announced that it was resurrecting the title...
No, be a dude.

League of Legends dev who insulted streamer is no longer with Riot Games

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Two days ago, we reported that a League of Legends developer had landed himself in hot water after he went grossly overboard in insulting...
We all fly up here.

Star Trek Online lets you work miracles with Season 14

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The next major patch for Star Trek Online is here today, and as the game frequently does, it kicks off with a new featured...
Flowering.

Choose My Adventure: Into the desert of Guild Wars 2

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My first week of playing Guild Wars 2 again was interesting, in no small part because it's rare for my playtime to be so...
Car fights.

Armored Warfare deep-dives the role of Armored Fighting Vehicles

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The latest development diary on the Armored Warfare site is trying to answer a remarkably unclear question: What are Armored Fighting Vehicles? It sounds...

Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs on guilds, groups, and the social systems that make an MMORPG go ’round

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Over the weekend, the studio behind crowdfunded RvR MMORPG Camelot Unchained released a hefty chunk of its ongoing beta one document, revealing extensive insight into...

Perfect Ten: 10 MMORPGs with playable fairies

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Probably my greatest and most constant gripe about fantasy MMORPGs is that for all of the freedom and imagination that this genre supposedly boasts,...

EVE Evolved: How much toxic, antisocial behaviour should MMOs tolerate?

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The EVE Online community is aflame this week after alliance leader gigX was permanently banned for making threats of real-life violence against another player...
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Perfect Ten: The 10 tiers of MMORPG lore

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In which we discuss varying levels of MMO lore effort and Eliot admits he doesn't remember the names of Pac-Man's ghosties.

Guild Chat: Dealing with the ‘it’s me or the MMO guild!’ ultimatum

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Welcome along to another edition of Guild Chat, the column through which the Massively Overpowered readership can band together to help a gamer-in-need with...
This guy, though... he didn't get it.

Final Fantasy XIV players to host in-game events, charity stream for hurricane relief Saturday

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Hat tip to MMO blogger Aywren, who picked up on a Final Fantasy XIV-based Direct Relief charity event "to raise awareness and bolster hurricane...

Wizard101 relishes its accomplishments so far this year

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It has been a big and busy year for Wizard101, and the team wants to make sure that you notice and appreciate everything it's...

Wizard101 and Pirate101 weather DDOS attacks

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If you have tried to log in and play Wizard101 or Pirate101 in the past 24 hours, you may have experienced disappointment as the...

Star Citizen counts the 3.0 bugs it’s quashed and the toilets on the Origin 600i

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This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse is more or less a recap of Gamescom and a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the chaos behind the...

Wizard101 celebrates its ninth birthday with free gifts

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Here's one MMO that we didn't realize was creeping up on a decade of live operation! Wizard101 is celebrating its ninth birthday this week,...

The MOP Up: State of Decay 2’s multiplayer mayhem (August 27, 2017)

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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...

ARK won’t be featuring console crossplay any time soon

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Friends and family separated by gaming platforms won't be coming together for a joyous reunion any time soon if they're playing ARK: Survival Evolved. Crossplay...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Guild Wars 2 Elite Specialization preview weekend impressions

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Over the weekend Guild Wars 2 players had the chance to get to grips with the new Path of Fire elite specializations in a PvP setting,...

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