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Happy Steam launch day, WildStar

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WildStar is officially live on Steam now as announced earlier this week. Carbine is kicking off the launch with the return of the Space...

Superdata: WoW, Lineage, SWTOR, TERA, and Blade & Soul top April P2P online games revenues

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Superdata has a new seasonal report out on the state of the digital games market. The research firm's April figures show that World of...

The Warcraft movie is going gangbusters in China

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Poor overall film reviews or no, Warcraft is most certainly going to make some nice bank this summer. The movie opens in the US...

Nostalrius team believes Blizzard ‘want[s] to have legacy WoW servers’

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The World of Warcraft vanilla emulator team Nostalrius, which undertook a mission into the depths of Blizzard's HQ this past weekend, has returned and...
AITA?

Final Fantasy XI details its June login rewards

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Every month, Final Fantasy XI offers players a nice and straightforward way to get rewarded for logging in: a login campaign. You log in,...

WildStar preps for tomorrow’s Steam release

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Is this WildStar's last shot at stabilizing and becoming profitable for the indefinite future? There's a lot riding on tomorrow's Steam release, and Carbine...

Global Chat: Is casual raiding important for MMOs?

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When it comes to the subject of raiding, one might get the impression that there are only two factions involved: those who are hardcore...

WildStar is finally coming to Steam – on Thursday

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As promised, WildStar is indeed launching on Steam -- and Carbine has just announced that the big day is this coming Thursday, June 9th. "Alongside the...
Well-told, but not well-planned.

Final Fantasy XI introduces new quests and Ambuscades for June

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The June version update of Final Fantasy XI should make your life just a little bit easier. Are you tired of walking everywhere in...
There was something beautiful and wonderful and it destroyed itself.

WildStar is buffing its security ahead of its Steam launch

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New security measures land in WildStar today. According to Carbine's blog post, the studio is implementing new IP checks upon login. "When logging into WildStar,...
Spider lady.

Final Fantasy XIV patch 3.3 is out now

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If you were looking forward to Final Fantasy XIV's patch today as your chance to own a house in the game, the bad news...

Extended draw distance is one of the ways Legion will make WoW prettier

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Step aside, details about class halls and specs, because this weekend Blizzard turned its attention to World of Warcraft: Legion's... draw distance. Yeah, maybe it's...
Sigh.

Wisdom of Nym: Taking on the Final Fantasy XIV patch 3.3 notes

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I really hope you got anything you wanted done before Final Fantasy XIV's patch finished up yesterday because the game is down all day...

The MOP Up: EVE Online phases out DirectX 9 (June 5, 2016)

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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...

One Shots: Two hearts beating as one

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It's not every day that you get married, either in real life or in a video game. Reader Kanbe managed to impress me by...

World of Warcraft’s talent reshuffle is meant to bring ‘more meaningful choice’ to players

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We trust it hasn't escaped your attention that your current World of Warcraft talent build won't be surviving Legion's launch intact. The talent system...

Camelot Unchained’s new ability system is ‘a big leap forward’

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Camelot Unchained's weekend post may be on the briefer side after the mega newsletter earlier this week, but it bears good news from CSE's...

The Game Archaeologist: Five eye-opening videos about the MMORPG genre

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When it comes to tracking down history for MMOs, I've found that there are an array of sources at hand that have preserved (unwittingly...

The Stream Team: Wishing WildStar a happy birthday

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It's totally a party week here on OPTV, and today MassivelyOP's MJ is celebrating WildStar's second birthday. As part of the festivities, she's going...
COME FIGHT ME

Final Fantasy XIV 3.3 patch notes include raid finder, materia melding NPCs

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Today is not the day for players to actually take on the new challenges present in Final Fantasy XIV's next major patch. That'll be...

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