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The Secret World introduces hoverboards and lucky coins

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Recently, Lead Designer Romain Amiel went to the forums to explain The Secret World’s new currency and gift bag in more detail, but it was...
Nothing but sad things to say.

LEGO Minifigures Online now available on Android devices

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Owning an Android device is sometimes a frustrating experience when it seems that every app has to come out for iOS first and Android...

Anarchy Online gets a shiny new website

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After 14 years of operation, Anarchy Online is moving on up to the east side. The long-running sci-fi MMO abandoned its aging website for spiffy...

One Shots: Purple haze

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Blocky and stylized though it may be, World of Warcraft's visuals represent impressive work by artists who pull every trick out of their bags to...

The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite tale from the olden days of MMOs?

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I have a notoriously poor memory for anything that happened more than five years ago. I might not have even been alive, for as...

Chaos Theory: Tips and tactics for The Secret World’s Manufactory dungeon

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After my initial dev tour through The Secret World's Issue #12 , I couldn't wait to get back into the newest dungeon, The Manufactory,...

The Daily Grind: What cultural influences do you like to see in MMOs?

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One of the things I miss about Age of Conan is the Chinese influence in the Rise of the Godslayer expansion. Robert E. Howard's Khitai...

The MOP Up: Blizzard belongs in a museum!

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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...

The Stream Team: The Secret World’s Manufactory dungeon, take two

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The last time MassivelyOP's MJ poked into The Secret World's new Manufactory dungeon, she couldn't get past the first room. Apparently it would help...
We fought a bear.

Perfect Ten: The 10 MMO memories we all have

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I have been playing MMOs with varying degrees of intensity for the past 12 years. That is really weird to me. It also means that...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 28: PAX Primal

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2 F2P, Atlas Reactor, The Park, SWTOR, Marvel Heroes, and WildStar, plus mailbag questions on Elder Scrolls Online, podcast meta, and more GW2.
It was a graveyard smash.

LEGO Minifigures Online adds in monstrous minifigures and trials

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Another series of minifigures is available in LEGO Minifigures Online, and the lineup is monstrous. As it should be; the minifigures in Series 14...

The Daily Grind: What’s the best MMO testing experience you’ve ever had?

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I know I'm not alone in feeling beta-fatigue. I hear the same things I feel from you folks in our comments and from our...

One Shots: Pin-up calendar

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Here's an interesting idea: using screenshots to make a calendar! Reader Elana was part of a team that did just that in The Secret World:...

The Stream Team: Inside The Secret World’s Issue #12

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In a totally evil move, Funcom released TSW's Issue #12 while MassivelyOP's MJ was gone, so she's only now able to delve into it...

The Secret World unlocks Manufactory’s nightmare mode

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The Secret World rolled out the next stage of Issue 12 by unlocking the nightmare mode for the new Manufactory instance. Issue 12 came out on...
Maybe this one will stick to the wall.

Funcom releases second quarter financials and announces The Park

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We could quote a lot of numbers from Funcom's second quarter financial report, but let's be honest here: They're just confirming what we already...

Global Chat: Returning to WildStar for F2P

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Many WildStar fans, past and present, are digging into the sumptuous buffet of the free-to-play patch on the test server for a better idea...

One Shots: Quiet grace

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When I take pictures of people in real life, I almost never ask them to pose. That feels so artificial to me; I'd rather...

Massively Overthinking: MMOs that need VR

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Man, our Kickstarter backers are fixated on virtual reality. It's almost as if you guys are really tech-savvy and into gaming immersion or something! Today's Massively Overthinking question...

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