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The Daily Grind: Do you buy the Daybreak-owns-Standing Stone Games rumor?

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Buried in the Daybreak ruckus of last week was the rumor that Daybreak is not in fact merely the publisher of Standing Stone Games'...

EverQuesting: Columbus Nova or not, Daybreak is tying its own noose

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How about those Red Sox? Seriously, that's a conversation I'd rather be having than the one that has cropped up this week -- and...

Otherland strives to regain players with hard work, more communication, and robust content additions

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It's no secret that Otherland, the MMO based on Tad Williams' popular sci-fi series, has had an extremely rough go of it through development...

EVE Online Executive Producer Andie ‘CCP Seagull’ Nordgren is leaving CCP Games [Updated]

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It's always tough when a development studio loses one of its top people, but today's news is sure to sting more than usual for...

EVE Fanfest 2018: CCP Falcon on EVE’s community team layoffs and having Hilmar as a CEO

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It's safe to say that it's been a rough year for CCP Games, with the company pulling out of VR game development and laying...

The MOP Up: EverQuest II’s Fallen Gate moves forward (April 22, 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...
Please let this stay far away from Rowling's endless retcons.

The Game Archaeologist: Harry Potter Online

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If all goes well, later this year we will finally be treated to an actual Harry Potter MMORPG in the form of Harry Potter:...

ArcheAge creator Jake Song talks about his return to the game

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ArcheAge's recent update is called Legends Return, a title that works on a couple of levels when you consider that the game's creator, Jake...

‘We all can be heroes:’ An interview with Star Trek Online’s Chase Masterson

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With a dozen members of the all-star cast of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine returning to reprise their roles for this June's Star Trek...

EVE Fanfest 2018: Andrew Groen on the sequel to his popular EVE Online history book

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One of the most common comments you'll see in articles about big events in EVE Online is that it's a lot more entertaining to...

SuperData examines the lootbox controversy’s effect on EA and the gaming industry

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How big a deal with the lootbox controversy that finally hit the mainstream last year? Pretty big, SuperData argues. In a new blog post,...

Massively Overthinking: The best of PAX East and GDC in 2018

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The past couple of weeks has been wild as we dispatched writers to GDC in San Francisco and PAX East in Boston to gather...

Ship of Heroes posts a timeline for the first half of 2018

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With a combat alpha under its belt, the superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes turns its attention to the challenges that lay ahead. The team...
This is the griffon.

PAX East 2018: An interview with the big griffon statue

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Everyone knows that the various people portraying characters at PAX East are just there to portray a character. That's not who they really are....

Bless Online shakes up and builds out its combat system

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With its early access debut coming next month, Bless Online has a lot riding on how well it can present itself to a western...

PAX East 2018: Talking superhero MMOs with Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever

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At this year's PAX East, I discovered that my mental picture of Casey McGeever did not match the actual man in person, but that...
Bloody mess.

PAX East 2018: Blizzard offers more details on World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth encounters and raids

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So if we'll no longer have tier sets in World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth, what motivation will you have for continuing to raid...

ArcheAge 4.5 Legends Return launches tonight with new fresh start servers

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ArcheAge's 4.5 update is going live tonight, complete with raise-able dragon battle mounts and shadow invasion content provoked when big world bosses are downed....

Defiance 2050 puts out the call for beta testers

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With Defiance's reboot scheduled for this summer, Trion Worlds needs as many testers as possible to help run the game through its paces. This is...
Everything comes around again.

Overwatch devs consider harnessing machine learning to fight toxicity

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According to a new Blizzard interview on Kotaku this week, Overwatch toxicity has a new enemy: AI. Jeff Kaplan says that Blizzard has "been...

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