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American studio known primarily for Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online, and the Asheron’s Call franchise.

Massively Overthinking: Graceful MMO free-to-play transitions

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In honor of WildStar's free-to-play transition this week, Massively Overthinking is about to overthink the very best F2P transitions ever. Even if you don't...

LotRO’s latest patch tosses errant quest pies and bumps store town services to 6 hours

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Lord of the Rings Online's Update 16.5 may not introduce any world-shattering additions to the game (who wants a broken world anyway?), but...

Jukebox Heroes: Your top 20 favorite MMO soundtracks

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I've been a sneaky columnist, my friends. Oh yes I have. In my last Jukebox Heroes I posted my top six favorite MMO soundtracks,...

Perfect Ten: Ten well-known voice actors behind SWTOR’s characters

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When it launched, Star Wars: The Old Republic was one of the biggest video game voice-over projects that BioWare or any studio had ever...

Pay for your Hobbit’s needs in LOTRO with Subway gift cards

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A revised Lord of the Rings Online cash shop is coming soon to the game with many improvements, not the least of which will be...

Dungeons and Dragons Online’s Devil’s Gambit update is live

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Dungeons and Dragons Online's Update 28: The Devil's Gambit heralds dark times for the game's setting, as a demonic horde invades Eberron's Stormreach. Today's Update 28 contains...

One Shots: Welcome to the party, pal!

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"You have to love randomly running across a band when you enter a building in Bree," reader Yrys said in conjunction with this picture...

Gaming industry reports identify leading studios and online trends

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Details strewn within a trio of industry reports offer clues as to the health and direction of online gaming in 2015. First up is a...

The MOP Up: Ultima Online’s new home

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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...

LotRO’s free server transfers start on September 14

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Server transfers for Lord of the Rings Online officially begin on September 14th. Per a dev post published yesterday on the game's official forums, players...

Asheron’s Call still offline after two weeks

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The entire Asheron's Call population has been homeless for two weeks and counting. Back in late August, a serious problem was discovered when players were...

Jukebox Heroes: My top six favorite MMO soundtracks of all time

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In ranking MMO soundtracks, there are a lot of ways to do it. You can pull out individual tracks or praise a game for...
Red sky at night, everything's boned.

Lord of the Rings Online opens up free transfers in anticipation of server merges

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Right now, you can move your character around servers in Lord of the Rings Online for free. You'll need to take advantage of that...

Global Chat: Returning to WildStar for F2P

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Many WildStar fans, past and present, are digging into the sumptuous buffet of the free-to-play patch on the test server for a better idea...

Not So Massively: Path of Exile’s crafting scandal; Sins of a Dark Age’s sunset

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This week in Not So Massively games, League of Legends players revealed a reproducible exploit that causes skillshot projectiles to become invisible and may...

Massively Overthinking: MMOs that need VR

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Man, our Kickstarter backers are fixated on virtual reality. It's almost as if you guys are really tech-savvy and into gaming immersion or something! Today's Massively Overthinking question...

Not So Massively: Star Citizen demos live gameplay; Dota 2 team kicks member after $6m win

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Last week, Star Citizen released impressive Gamescom 2015 demo videos showing live gameplay footage of players walking around a space port and a mission...

The Daily Grind: Are lifetime subs ever worth it?

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Seeing Champions Online's lifetime subscription go on sale last week -- for the "low" price of $200 -- made me think once again what...
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye.

Today is the last day to play Infinite Crisis

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In case you had forgotten, Infinite Crisis is shutting down for good on August 14th. That makes today the last real day to play...

The Daily Grind: How do you play Elder Scrolls Online?

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I reinstalled Elder Scrolls Online this week, and I don't know why. I mean, I like the game well enough, and did from day...

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