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One Shots: Threat Level Midnight

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Even in the far future, Starfleet officers still pose for a selfie or two. How could they not when they encounter such striking backdrops? "This...

Funcom’s The Park shows off a trio of creepy screenshots

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Funcom released a trio of new screenshots today for The Park, the upcoming Secret World single-player spin-off that's slated for release next month. The...

Chaos Theory: Small steps – The Secret World’s progress

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It's certainly been a week of expansion news! More than one game that had sworn off expansions in the past has circled back to...

The Stream Team: Hang time with The Secret World’s hoverboards

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Who doesn't love cool new gadgets? MassivelyOP's MJ sure does! She's acquired for herself a fancy new Hover-Tech Stealthboard in The Secret World, complete...

Perfect Ten: Ten well-known voice actors behind SWTOR’s characters

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When it launched, Star Wars: The Old Republic was one of the biggest video game voice-over projects that BioWare or any studio had ever...

Here’s a longer look at The Secret World’s hoverboard

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Last week Funcom teased the upcoming hoverboard mount in The Secret World. That was just a 9-second clip, though. Today, the firm has posted...

The Game Archaeologist: Anarchy Online

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"The future in your hands." This was Funcom's promise to gamers in the early days of the 2000s. Even as the MMORPG genre slowly took...

The Daily Grind: What are your favorite MMO NPC quotes?

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"You are wrinkly manager man. It's your job to be old and die so we can learn and be sad. Also you pay for...

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...

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