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The MOP Up: Richard Garriott’s new book (April 24, 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...

The Game Archaeologist: Saga of Ryzom

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Every so often I get requests to cover such-and-such game in this column. These are often incredibly obscure titles, even to me, and when...

MMO Mechanics: Innovating mechanics to refresh Guild Wars 2

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I usually keep MMO Mechanics quite general by looking at several games as examples to highlight my point regarding the mechanics of choice in each article,...

One Shots: Jedi to the max

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Are you all the Jedi you could possibly be? If not, then subscribe to our exclusive six-week course, where we'll teach you such advanced...
Here's the weird zone that no one has seen in forever, you live here now.

PAX East 2016: Final Fantasy XIV answers questions and reveals the Palace of the Dead

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If you think you've seen everything that Final Fantasy XIV has in its bag of tricks, the game's Q&A panel at PAX yesterday made it clear...

The Daily Grind: Are you ever sad when a long-awaited MMORPG expansion arrives?

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We've been joking about Lord of the Rings Online never getting to Gondor, never mind Mordor, that I've become super sad that it's actually...
Both hands!

Leaderboard: Will you be giving Guild Wars 2 another chance?

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This week's Guild Wars 2 update has been widely welcomed by both current and past players for its broad-sweeping quality-of-life adjustments (and rollbacks) for...

The Culling’s first big patch introduces playable female toons

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Launched into early access back in March, The Culling is a short-scale battle royale survival game that's already pumping out patches. Ahead of PAX,...

EVE Fanfest 2016: EVE Valkyrie launching a carrier assault later this spring

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The virtual reality EVE Valkyrie is striving to prove that it's not just a passing fad. The starship dogfighting game announced that it's prepping...

EVE Fanfest 2016: Industrial citadels and drilling platforms in EVE Online

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EVE Online's Citadel expansion goes live in just a few days on April 27th, opening the floodgates on a new era of space colonisation for players....

ARK: Survival Evolved introduces ridable direbear and manta ray

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ARK: Survival Evolved marches on this week, seemingly undaunted by last week's studio settlement with Trendy, so players can rejoice that the content is...

Villagers & Heroes revamps newbie zones and hits bugs where they live

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A general quality-of-life patch has landed in Villagers & Heroes to improve its beginner experience as well as hand players more tools to report...

Ever, Jane delivers a small beta update

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Fans of high society, letter-writing, and dinner parties can revel in the fact that Ever, Jane is slightly better than before. The upcoming Jane Austen...

EverQuesting: Daybreak is on the right side of the MMORPG legacy server debate

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WoW is stupid. Yes, I said it. World of Warcraft is dumb. More accurately, I should say Blizzard is stupid. The reason? Its stance...

Das Tal puts power ratings in front of player names

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Here's a not-so-hypothetical question for you: If you were playing a highly competitive multiplayer game, would you want a rating concerning your skill and...

EVE Fanfest 2016: EVE Online’s Citadel trailer, CSM results, and stream

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Videos and news bits are trickling in from this year's EVE Fanfest, where CCP has just shown a video feature tour of the Citadel expansion that...
AGAIN!

Asta Online pumps out first major content update

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Even though Asta Online hasn't officially released yet, it's in that persistent open beta state that's launch in all but name. So we'll go easy...
I did not get a handle on my fixation with robots.

MechWarrior Online rolls out the next stage of its faction gameplay

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If you've played the tabletop games that MechWarrior Online is based upon, you know that factions and allegiances are a big part of those...

Perfect World International lands on Steam with new player housing system

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Perfect World is intent this week on rolling out the remainder of its MMORPG catalogue to Steam. Earlier this year, we saw Swordsman take...
Here in my car, etc.

The Crew heads off to the stunt races

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The Crew isn't the sort of game that you want to give to first-week drivers ed students as a way to teach them responsible...

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