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New Zealand declares lootboxes not gambling under the law
Are lootboxes gambling? It seems like such a simple question, but it really isn't simple from a legal or ethical standpoint, and the answer...
TERA starts its technical console test on December 14
So, why haven't we gotten a lot of news about the TERA console version? Product manager Matt Denomme has put forth a new video...
Half of the LawBreakers founding team has left the studio
The face of LawBreakers development and Boss Key is arguably Cliff Bleszinski, but Arjan Brussee was co-founder of the studio and half of the...
The MOP Up: Heroes of the Storm mains Hanzo (December 10, 2017)
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...
Grand Theft Auto Online previews its high-adventure Doomsday Heist update
Sometimes, robbing banks gets boring. Specifically, robbing banks in Grand Theft Auto Online; you should not be robbing banks in real life under any...
Absolver patches in a new 3v3 gameplay mode
Sparring with your enemies one-on-one is always fun, but sometimes it's even more fun to be fighting back-to-back with your allies in a fight...
Dauntless launches the Sharpen Your Skills update
After several weeks of previews, the latest update for Dauntless has arrived, and it's aiming at making a better hunter out of you. Sharpen...
Amazon stops selling digital cards for Star Wars: The Old Republic
You can no longer purchase digital time cards or Cartel Coins for Star Wars: The Old Republic through Amazon. This is clearly a sign...
RIFT puts an endgame currency out for real-money sales
Look, we can all agree that "pay-to-win" is, at the very least, a difficult concept to be certain about. Right? There's a lot of...
Fortnite is getting a new large-scale battle royale mode
Over the past weekend, Fortnite managed to hit a peak of 1.3 million concurrent users and 30M total users. That's a lot of people....
Saga of Lucimia doesn’t have minimum specs for its testing, but it also does
There are no minimum specs listed for Saga of Lucimia's early access test starting on December 22nd. That's because no work has really yet...
Tencent may be bringing H1Z1 to China
The easiest way to ensure that no one is really fighting over who gets to be at the top of the battle royale genre...
A ‘remastered’ version of ArcheAge is due out in Korea in 2018
Would it be fair to say that XLGAMES has "mastered" ArcheAge? The developer behind it has been working on the live version for five...
Destiny 2’s endgame is now helpfully locked behind Curse of Osiris access
If you've decided to hold off on buying the Destiny 2: Curse of Osiris DLC, good news! The game's endgame is now locked away...
Check out World of Warcraft’s allied races jokes and flirts, plus guilds topple Antorus bosses
Back in the day, the only way we'd learn about the many jokes and flirt lines for races in World of Warcraft was by...
Portal Knights arrives on mobile today
The nice thing about mobile MMOs is that you can still enjoy a video game when you're out on the road. Portal Knights already...
OrbusVR shows off with a new trailer for early access
The trouble with seeing VR images on a non-VR screen is, well, they don't really carry the same sort of impact. The new OrbusVR...
Tera M is not friendly to free players in its Korean version
Eager to have all of the gameplay of TERA in the palm of your hand with TERA M? You might want to be a...
Dungeons & Dragons Online launches the Mists of Ravenloft
There's a chill in the air through December under normal circumstances, but the chill rushing through Dungeons & Dragons Online is unrelated to the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 147: Daybreak but not that one
Justin and Bree discuss Secret World Legends, Hearthstone, World of Warcraft, Star Citizen, Guild Wars 2, Skyforge, and the cost of making games, with a lengthy mailbag-inspired discussion on minimaps.
