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Pokemon Go: Stock plummet, trolling, design fails, and crossing the Canadian border
Here's our near-daily smorgasbord of inane Pokemon Go stories. I'm sorry.
Two kids from Alberta, Canada, crossed the border into the US state of...
The Game Archaeologist: Sega’s 10six MMO
If you were to think of Sega and MMOs, chances are the only thing that would come to mind is the Phantasy Star Online franchise....
Albion Online details the Artifact system
When Albion Online's final beta kicks off on August 1st, players are going to deal with Artifacts. They're the most powerful items in the...
Star Trek Online is heading to Star Trek Las Vegas
Are you heading out to the City of Gin-Soaked Regrets (or "Las Vegas" as it's more commonly known) for Star Trek Las Vegas? Because...
Wisdom of Nym: Why I adore Final Fantasy XIV’s Deep Dungeon
Let me start by getting my biggest beef with the Palace of the Dead out of the way right off: I don't like the...
No Man’s Sky offers new trailer on trade
What's better than re-watching old trailers while waiting for No Man’s Sky to launch on the PS4 in a little over two weeks? How...
Guild Wars 2’s Queen Jennah addresses the citizens of Kryta; Divinity’s Reach is so doomed
Guild Wars 2 is continuing its rollout of teasers leading up to the launch of its third living world season next week. Today's entry...
Enter to win a Neverwinter PS4 gelatinous cube companion from PWE and Massively OP
To celebrate this week's Neverwinter launch on PlayStation 4, PWE has granted Massively OP 50 companion codes to give away to our readers!
The codes are for the Gelatinous Cube Companion, a...
Pokemon Go: $35M revenue, movie deals, and the US government
Welcome back to our near-daily roundup of Pokemon Go news from around the alternate reality that we all live in now.
The US House...
Riders of Icarus forecasts a snowy update next week
Fresh (very fresh) fantasy MMO Riders of Icarus is already preparing for its first post-soft launch update next week with Blight of Frost Keep....
Shards Online AMA covers permadeath, community servers, and the Steam launch
Citadel Studios' Derek Brinkmann hopped on Reddit yesterday for an AMA revolving around Shards Online. Among the highlights:
The game does have hunger, but...
Neverwinter launches on the PlayStation 4 today
Players who wanted to play Neverwinter on the PlayStation 4 but didn't want to drop $20 to access the game's head start have been...
Dual Universe releases 10 minutes of uncut live pre-alpha gameplay
Single-shard sci-fi sandbox MMORPG Dual Universe has been hard at work since its big reveal and mechanics explanations back at E3, and this week,...
Sword Coast Legends is available today on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One
Players who have been eagerly anticipating the console launch of Sword Coast Legends will no longer be able to anticipate that launch. It's happening...
Shroud of the Avatar prepares for its final wipe and another telethon
The last data wipe for Shroud of the Avatar is coming very soon. On July 27th, the final wipe will take place, new player-owned...
Naruto Online is launching on Wednesday
Ninjas? Anime? MMO releases? All of this and more is coming to you this week, courtesy of Naruto Online's launch on Wednesday, July 20th.
Based...
The Soapbox: Calling an MMO launch a launch
It's launch.
Can we collectively accept that? Marketing, developers, and players alike? Launch is launch. When your game launches, it has launched. If I can...
Wizardry Online to sunset in Japan
Hardcore perma-death MMORPG Wizardry Online just can't catch a break: MMO Culture reports today that the game is shutting down in Japan, five years...
The MOP Up: RuneScape Chronicles’ beach party (July 17, 2016)
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...
Trion’s Scott Hartsman on Trove’s console launch, fighting lag, and whether RIFT is next
Following Trion's announcement earlier this week that its cutesy voxel sandbox MMORPG Trove had registered five million players in its first year and that...
