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Star Wars Galaxies’ Wookiee Life Day returns on the Legends emu – nobody can sunset the Holiday Special
If for some reason you're angling to check out an MMO holiday inspired by a television special so terrible that George Lucas has spent...
Skyforge rocks out with the new Soundweaver class in its Distant Frequencies update
Earlier this week, My.com's free-to-play sci-fi MMO Skyforge released its latest major content update, Distant Frequencies, which introduces the new Soundweaver class and sends...
Rend’s newest patch adds in the first selection of artifacts
Let's get something out of the way very quickly. Wielding Mjolnir in Rend will probably not allow you to fly, nor will it give you...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2018
We've got a lot of awards going out over the next couple of weeks about the "best" and "biggest" of this and that. But...
Vague Patch Notes: The taxonomy of corporate apologies in video games
Somehow, Bethesda managed to persevere after the Great Canvas Shortage of 2018 to replace the Fallout 76 CE bags that were essentially plastic shopping bags...
LOTRO loses its lead designer, starts Yuletide with two new instances
Santa's bringing both coal and presents to Lord of the Rings Online players this Christmas.
First, the coal. Long-time Lead Designer Ben "Dr Octothorpe" Schneider...
Overwatch’s Winter Wonderland is out, but Blizzard World is struggling
Holiday Blizzard World is live in Overwatch! Oops, nevermind!
Well, it was live earlier this week briefly as the Winter Wonderland rolled out to the...
Runes of Magic unleashes the Snowflake Festival, new zone, and new multi-mode instance
Yes, Runes of Magic is still around, and in fact, it's still getting updates, including the one that's rolled out this week. The star of...
Worlds Adrift toggles on proximity-based voice chat, engine overheating, and ciphers
You couldn't get enough of mouth-breathing and kids yelling at their mothers in some state far away from you in Fallout 76, and now...
Fallout 76’s campsite buffs and push-to-talk are live today, with another patch coming next week
Time to peek out from the rubble of Fallout 76 to see what's going on this week... Oh, it's just a patch? A patch...
Elite Dangerous’ Beyond – Chapter Four is live today with exploration, background sim, and guilds
The fourth chapter of Elite Dangerous' Beyond campaign is live today, and if it seems as if we've been covering it forever, that's only...
World of Warcraft’s Tide of Vengeance update goes live today
Facing down an impatient and unsatisfied World of Warcraft community, Blizzard is firing off the biggest bullet it can this holiday season with a...
Elder Scrolls Online attempts to fix lag as fans petition to immortalize Grandma Shirley in TES6
Update 4.2.11 is live for The Elder Scrolls Online, bringing with it some improvements for the game's Mac client as well as a sprinkling...
Vague Patch Notes: MMO emulation as a paean for the dead vs. a mockery of the living
If you ever need to know why we'll happily cover Star Wars Galaxies emulators and not Ultima Online emulators here on Massively Overpowered, the reason is...
Lord of the Rings Online cultivates better lootboxes for impatient Elves
We all know that if there's an important bug in an MMO, developers will get around to fixing it... sooner or later. But if...
You can customize your new Archer in Black Desert today
Nobody does a new class rollout like Black Desert, and Kakao is showing why today.
As promised, the Archer's pre-patch is out this morning. You...
Dungeons and Dragons Online’s latest update buffs bards and adds new quests
Bards, tune those lutes and warm up those pipes: The latest update to Dungeons and Dragons Online is live today, and it brings with...
Blade & Soul’s Theater of Mystery update takes the stage today
Today, NCSoft is pulling back the curtain on Blade & Soul's latest update, Theater of Mystery, which introduces an increased level cap, a new...
Temtem’s alpha adds Luma Ganki along with numerous bug fixes
The initial backer alpha release of Temtem was pretty short on critters to catch, partly by design. So it's a good thing that the patch...
Ultima Online patches in its new Krampus battle
The Krampus, once an obscure bit of Christmas trivia, has become a blessing for MMOs eager to let you fight something for the holiday....
