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Hey game devs, stop namedropping Star Wars Galaxies and make a spiritual successor

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If you're an MMORPG gamer who watches the mainstream gaming space, you probably know that most gaming sites take any opportunity they can get...
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Dune: Awakening’s Direct shows off graphical touches, film references, and the basic survival loop of the game

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You may not have noticed this, but the new Dune movie is out! The second one, even, which means it's two more movies than...

Funcom’s Dune Awakening MMO is finally promising trailers and hype as Dune 2 hits theaters

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Throughout the length of the Dune MMORPG's development, it's seemed weird that Funcom and Tencent didn't push harder to link the game more directly...

Dune Awakening’s latest promo video shows Funcom’s lean toward transmedia synergy

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If you spent all last year waiting for Dune Awakening news, well, you're probably pretty hungry, as we got only a few scraps of...

The Soapbox: Why The Secret World really failed

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We're back with part two of my long-overdue post-mortem of The Secret World, my favourite MMORPG of all time. In the first part I...

Funcom discusses Dune Awakening’s South Korean prospects and MMORPG elements

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Those of us who live in western countries know very well the pain of watching games develop in Asia as developers hedge on whether...

Dune Awakening video shows off its five pillars of design: ‘Play the way you want to play’

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With Dune: Part 2 coming to movie theaters later this year, excitement for this long-running franchise is pretty high. That's especially true when you...

Funcom’s Dune Awakening teases exploration, survival, and ‘bespoke’ crafting

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Way back in 2019, Funcom inked a deal to build a DUNE survival game, but just how MMO-like the game would be has remained...

The Secret World Classic won’t have a Halloween event this year thanks to… player feedback?

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Over summer, fans of the original version of The Secret World were delighted to see the game's anniversary event activated for the first time...

Secret World Legends holds its anniversary event while a livestreamer hosts his own event for TSW

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It's time once again for the anniversary event of Secret World Legends to shuffle along for another year. Those who have experienced anniversaries past...

Funcom’s Conan Chop Chop isn’t dead, and it’s really launching next year

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Funcom's Conan Chop Chop, originally introduced as a rogue-like ARPG back in 2019, wrecked our predictions for 2020 by not launching, and I'm holding...

Funcom is still working on co-op shooter and multiplayer Dune game, according to Q2 2019 financials

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Buried under all the WoW Classic news at the end of August was Funcom's second quarter financial report. Let's rectify our oversight with a...

Funcom’s Joel Bylos steps down as creative director for Conan Exiles

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There's been a changing of the guard over in Conan Exiles world: Joel Bylos has left the creative director's chair of the survival sandbox...

Chaos Theory: Secret World is getting new story content, but it’s not in Secret World Legends

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That feeling when something is so close yet misses the mark -- in a painful, how-on-earth-can-you-miss-that-giant-glowing-target way. The good news is that a Secret...

The MOP Up: PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds lets gamers tattle on each other (September 2, 2018)

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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...

Massively Overthinking: On slavery mechanics in MMOs

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Polygon recently had an interview with Conan Exiles creative director Joel Bylos focused on the game's slavery mechanics, a "feature" I had entirely forgotten...

Chaos Theory: A changing of the guard in the Secret World Legends

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As a fan of the wonderful world that Secret World brought us, do you cringe or grin with excitement when Secret World Legends news...

Conan Exiles has officially launched with 1M copies sold to date and a huge day-one patch

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Funcom's survivalbox Conan Exiles has officially shed early access and entered final launch as of today - that's on PC, PS4, and Xbox One...

Hands-on with Conan Exiles’ launch build: Farming, frolicking in the swamp, and other feature fun

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The early access days of Conan Exiles are coming to a close. In less than a month, the survival sandbox will launch. At that time...
Exiled Lands' Test Kitchen

Conan Exiles talks currencies, map rooms, and the armor rebalance

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If you missed last week's Conan Exiles stream, you actually missed some good stuff. The big news centers on the economic system en route...

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