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Perfect Ten: MMO missteps that didn’t have to happen

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Around the time I started working at Massively-that-was, there was an article that I quite liked talking about how four high-profile MMO failures were...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 161: Project power

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Justin and Bree discuss RIFT Prime, Trove, Project C, Project Gorgon, H1Z1, The Division 2, Guild Wars 2, and LOTRO, with mailbag questions on mimicking Minecraft's business model and playing the good stuff while you still can.
You have so many options, giving one more away won't kill ya.

Warframe celebrates five years and 38 million players

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Warframe continues to defy expectations for online gaming playerbase sizes. A year ago, it boasted 30M registered players. As of today, it's up to 38M....

Another writer allegedly leaves BioWare – what on earth is going on with Anthem?

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Surfacing at the tail end of last week was the news that multiple former BioWare devs who'd all contributed heavily to Star Wars The...

Blizzard’s Overwatch League addresses toxicity with fines and suspensions, while the Dallas Fuel drops a toxic player

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Last week, we covered an ESPN piece in which the author called out Blizzard for sitting on its hands after an Overwatch League player...

Albion Online launches Lancelot with fishing and guild updates, grants everyone a week of sub play

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Albion Online's Lancelot update, its third major release since launch, is officially live this morning. The star of the update, as we've previously covered,...

The MOP Up: Dragonball Online kicks off beta testing (March 11, 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...

The Stream Team: Doing the dojo obstacle course in Warframe

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Massively OP's MJ has yet to step foot into her clan's Dojo in Warframe; she's been waiting in order to show it off to...

Former SWTOR creative director and key writers form up under new studio FogBank

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We don't know exactly what titles they're working on, but three former Star Wars: The Old Republic veterans have joined forces under a studio...
Superhero landing! Oh, that's hard on the knees, not practical...

Choose My Adventure: Already captured in Warframe

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You know, I've been oddly impressed with the starting experience for the past couple of titles I've been playing in Choose My Adventure. Both...

Ubisoft and Massive are building The Division 2

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Did you see this one coming? Ubisoft and Massive Entertainment are apparently working on a sequel to The Division. The news comes via what appears...

Perfect Ten: A dozen MOBAs that didn’t make it

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With the insane success -- both in terms of popularity and finances -- that Dota and League of Legends spawned, you can easily understand...

Albion Online’s upcoming fishing system hopes to reel in casuals and hardcores alike

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Fishing has become a hot topic in MMOs this week, thanks to the likes of RuneScape and Albion Online. The latter will see the...

Gaijin’s space MMO Star Conflict rolls out Journey update tailored to newbies

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I was shocked to realize today just how long it's been since we covered Gaijin's Star Conflict - that's the rather well-loved but under-the-radar...

Go on a first-person tour of War of Rights’ Civil War battlefields

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What would it have been to fight -- and perhaps die -- on one of the famous Civil War battlefields? The multiplayer War of...

Escape from Tarkov roadmap points to open beta and a more hardcore experience

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With lots to do to get Escape from Tarkov ready for the upcoming open beta test, the development team has jettisoned its plans to...
Everyone likes me, Amelie.

Overwatch lists the most popular heroes in all of its various rankings

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If you're unfamiliar with the term "trickle-down meta," the topic of this Overwatch thread likely won't make much sense to you. (In brief, it's...
This is reasonable.

StarCraft celebrates its 20 year anniversary with celebrations across other games

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It's been 20 years since StarCraft was first released to the world, and as a result, Blizzard is taking the time to celebrate the...
The Quick and the Gay

Ubisoft addresses Rainbow Six Siege toxicity, ESPN slams toxicity in Overwatch League

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Ubisoft is sick of toxicity in its games, and to combat it, it's whipping out the banhammer as a "first step" in getting the...

Em-8ER lands Firefall’s composer, works on demo

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So what has Mark Kern's Em-8ER been up to these past couple of months? The team shared the latest news about the giant mech...

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