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Sea of Thieves appreciates the silhouette of islands at sunset
Which MMORPG would you want with you if you were stranded on a desert island? If you said Sea of Thieves, you're wrong. There's...
The MOP Up: Gunjack 2 gets a launch date (November 13, 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...
Sea of Thieves conjures up ‘raw-looking’ skeletons
Sea of Thieves' team is still slowly working up to the big feature reveals, preferring to spend the meanwhile discussing the smaller details of...
Ascent: The Space Game’s presidential election and player-run GoFundMe
Among the fun quirks of sandboxes is the political intrigue they can spawn. One such drama is currently unfolding in indie sci-fi sandbox Ascent: The...
Sea of Thieves team talks alpha tests and game audio
The pirates at Rare have taken to the lower galley to sit around and record another hour-long podcast covering all sorts of topics for...
Jukebox Heroes: MMORPG music for a haunted Halloween
You simply can't have a good and proper Halloween without a perfect soundtrack to back you up. Sure, you could just pop in one...
Cloud Pirates flies toward Steam Greenlighting, opens Q&A
My.com announced this week that it's angling for Greenlighting on Steam (been a while since we had one of those) with its upcoming sky-dirigible MOBA...
Star Citizen dishes on alpha 2.6 progress and procedural planets
This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse is ostensibly a check-in with the Frankfurt team, but there's quite a bit of teasing for 2.6...
Sea of Thieves shares more details on the sounds of the ship
There's more to be learned about the sound design behind Sea of Thieves, and the most recent video diary for the game covers one...
WildStar’s Redmoon Mutiny arrives November 16th
So you've finished off the first part of the Redmoon Terror raid in WildStar and dealt with Mordechai Redmoon. That's all good news. The...
EverQuest II takes you on a tour of the Obulus Frontier
Believe it or not, EverQuest II: Kunark Ascending is less than a month away. The expansion might not include a level cap increase, but...
Pick up a Cloud Pirates closed beta key from My.com and Massively OP (All gone!)
If you've been eyeing the Cloud Pirates closed beta that's going on right now through the weekend, you're in the right post: My.com has granted Massively...
Cloud Pirates sails into its first closed beta test, shows off ship classes
Who doesn't like a flying airship, particularly when its heavily armed and given license to slug it out with the other traffic on its...
The Stream Team: Thar be a Pirate101 birthday today!
Shiver me timbers, it's a birthday! Pirate101 is celebrating its fourth birthday today, and Massively OP's MJ is joining in on the swashbuckling fun....
EverQuesting: Could Daybreak’s new FPS be an EverQuest?
With the constant clamoring from fans for Daybreak (or someone) to create an honest-to-goodness next-gen sequel to the EverQuest franchise, you'd hope that it...
Sea of Thieves turns to the hurdy-gurdy for period music
Creating that "authentic" pirate sound is a challenge for Sea of Thieves'Â soundtrack. In a new Short Haul video, Composer Robin Beanland shows how he's...
Cloud Pirates enters closed beta October 18, begins selling founder packs
My.com announced this week that its Allods Online-inspired sky-MOBA Cloud Pirates will enter closed beta next week on October 18th. The company has likewise put...
The Stream Team: Unlocking Marvel Heroes’ Pirate Deadpool team up
One of the last things Massively OP's MJ needs to do to be ready for Marvel Heroes' Cosmic Trial on Storm is to acquire the...
Perfect Ten: MMORPGs with vehicle avatars
When you take a step back and look at the broad MMO genre, you see some common threads that run through most games. One...
Sea of Thieves is taking in-game pirate shanties seriously
Should pirate music played by pirates sound like a professional orchestra? Nope! Nor will it in Rare's Sea of Thieves. Head of Music Robin...
