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Valiance Online on alpha, Steam, and the character generator of your dreams

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Expect "big changes" in the way Silverhelm Studios handles superhero MMORPG Valiance Online's development going forward, the indie group tells future players and testers in...
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Kickstarted indie VR MMO OrbusVR plans alpha tests, character customization upgrades

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What's up with OrbusVR, the blocky indie VR sandbox that breezed through its quickie Kickstarter to raise $34,000 last month -- 340% of its...

Black Death’s V0.12 overhauls combat and housing, offers new trailer

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Indie survival sandbox The Black Death is due for a massive update any hour now. Last week, Small Impact Games told players that back in...

The Game Archaeologist: How DikuMUD shaped modern MMOs

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Even though there are hundreds and thousands of MMOs spanning several decades, only a small handful were so incredibly influential that they changed the...

The MOP Up: ARK’s console editions get a hair-do (March 26, 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...
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The Soapbox: What the Mass Effect Andromeda kerfuffle ought to teach us about games criticism

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Today is the official release of Mass Effect: Andromeda, which was preceded by the frankly baffling decision to allow people access to an early...

Massively OP’s PAX East 2017 awards and best-in-show reader vote

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We've finished rolling out all of our PAX East content this year, and we've put our MMORPG-addled noggins together to try to choose our...

Global Chat: Fare thee well, Landmark

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Believe it or not, there were actually people who played and enjoyed Landmark -- and were saddened to see it taken offline. To kick...
Bela Lugosi's dead.

Albion Online AMA on pay-to-win, free trials, and global servers

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Sandbox Interactive ran an AMA for its in-development indie MMO Albion Online on Reddit last night, covering everything from the game's business model to...

Enter to win a copy of Wild Terra from Juvty and Massively OP

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Indie sandbox MMORPG Wild Terra has been in early access since December, a nostalgia-driven medieval sim that allows players to build up settlements (and...

Ship of Heroes will seek $400,000 in Kickstarter funding

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Indie superhero MMO Ship of Heroes has just announced the details of its planned Kickstarter campaign, which was previously noted to begin on April...

OrbusVR has fully funded on Kickstarter

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OrbusVR, the blocky indie VR sandbox from Ad Alternum, has finished out its Kickstarter successfully this morning. The studio had originally promised a brief, one-week...

PAX East 2017: Dauntless reveals new trailer, plans 2017 launch

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Keeping an ear to the ground for Dauntless news? You should be: It's a co-op ARPG from Phoenix Labs, an indie studio made up...

Exclusive: Indie sandbox El Somni Quas has been ‘rebuilt from scratch’

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Over the last few months, we've published several exclusive dev diaries from El Somni Quas, an indie sandbox from a Czech studio that cut...
Well, I mean, this is transparent.

Ship of Heroes posts a Kickstarter countdown on its main page

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Whenever we here bring news about a new indie title, there's always at least one person asking in the comments about when the Kickstarter...
So long.

The Exiled outlines early access packages, denounces pay-to-win

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With just a week to go until its early access launch on February 23rd, indie "social sandbox" The Exiled -- formerly known as Das...

Five reasons behind the failure of Hero’s Song

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In July of 2015, MMORPG fans were stunned to hear that John Smedley was stepping down from his post as president of Daybreak. After...

Valve sunsets Steam Greenlight, proposes dev submission fees to ‘decrease the noise’

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Valve is determined to keep itself in the news this weekend, apparently: Yesterday, the company announced it's shutting down the Steam Greenlight platform. That's...

Massively Overthinking: Death and dying in MMORPGs

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In March of last year, MOP's Justin wrote a detailed guide to the most common death penalties in MMORPGs. Last September, Gamasutra pulled seven...

We’re gonna have gorgeous hair in City of Titans

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A few weeks ago, the Massively OP writers were hanging in the news room on a tear about mohawks. We're not against mohawks. Mohawks...

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