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The Stream Team: Hunting the big bad wolf in V Rising

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2024/06/01

Who’s afraid of the big bad wolf? Not Massively OP’s MJ! She’s off to hunt the beast in V Rising. And she hears she might even gain some benefits from beating this boss. Tune in live at 2:00 p.m. as MJ returns to the life of a vampire just trying to survive sunlight, skeletons, and […]

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LOTRO Legendarium: LOTRO’s Update 41 plans monster...

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2024/06/01

Yesterday’s Lord of the Rings Online dev stream was a particularly informative one as SSG’s Orion made an appearance to talk about what’s coming in this summer’s Update 41. Orion noted that Update 41 will be a different kind of update, as it’ll focus more on adding features and refining systems instead of adding new […]

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Corepunk abruptly ends its second alpha test over...

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2024/06/01

As we’ve been covering for the past couple of days, the second alpha test for the OARPG Corepunk hasn’t exactly been going well: The test had to be reset and delayed several times, and we even had to switch gears from our planned Friday livestream of the game because of an unexpected two-hour maintenance. And […]

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WRUP: The standard model of Mario edition

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2024/06/01

Join us for our weekly open thread! We're discussing what MMOs we're playing this weekend and answering a bonus question about, uh, errors in food judgment.

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The Daily Grind: Do you prefer predictable or...

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2024/06/01

I’ve been having such a blast in Pandaria Remix these past couple weeks, in part because it’s allowed me to reconnect with one of my favorite specs in the game, the Enhancement Shaman. There’s something about this class that gives me a strong visceral feeling of impactful melee, and I think I know why. It’s […]

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The Stream Team: Hurray for more AQ3D housing features

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2024/05/31

What does Massively OP’s MJ love the most in MMOs? If you said housing, you wouldn’t be wrong. (Even if it’s tied at the top with pets.) What does she love even more? More housing features! And AQ3D just introduced additional stuff to make housing even more enticing, including the ability to set build permissions […]

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Betawatch: Tencent’s Tarisland eyes its June release

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2024/05/31

Have you come for adventures in yonder land of Taris? Wait, I haven’t actually been involved in the various tests; does Tarisland actually feature a land of Taris? Let me know in the comments while you rejoice that the game is launching on June 21st, when presumably I could find out if there’s a Taris […]

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Marvel Rivals confirms launch on Xbox and PS5, two...

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2024/05/31

NetEase’s team vs. team shooter Marvel Rivals is spreading its wings to new horizons, as the shooter has just announced that it will be making its way to the PlayStation 5 and Xbox X|S consoles when it launches, and it’s bringing some new goodies in tow when it does. A recent gameplay trailer and related […]

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Monster Hunter Wilds’ first gameplay trailer...

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2024/05/31

It’s been quite some time since Monster Hunter Wilds, the next entry in the venerable multiplayer RPG series, got any information since it was first unveiled during last year’s Game Awards, but then that’s to be expected considering it wasn’t promising more details until this summer. “Summer” apparently meant during yesterday’s PlayStation State of Play […]

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Blizzard throws anniversary celebrations for Diablo...

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2024/05/31

How can you top one birthday celebration? By stacking another one on top of it, of course. And that’s the two-hellbirds-with-one-stone approach that Blizzard is taking to mark the anniversaries of Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal in June. Calling it the “March of the Goblins” celebrations, the studio is giving out a bunch of freebies […]

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MMO Business Roundup: Activision owned cheatmaker...

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2024/05/31

Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business news! Business business business and all that. EngineOwning got owned – File this one under “the worst person you know just made a great point,” as Activision triumphed in its lawsuit against German cheat maker EngineOwning. The US-based court hearing the case awarded Activision […]

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Destiny 2 provides one more Final Shape preview,...

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2024/05/31

We are now mere days away from Destiny 2: The Final Shape going live (unless you were among those PS5 players who got that unintended advanced peek), which means that Bungie has one last set of previews to share before the expansion formally launches. These looks ahead are mercifully less granular than ones that were […]

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The Stream Team: Taking a peek at the closed alpha of...

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2024/05/31

It’s been quite a long time coming — and a few stumbling starts besides — but Corepunk is now in its second closed alpha test, and MOP’s Chris has gotten his own ticket punched in to take a peek! Join him today at 2:00 p.m. EDT as he takes a first look at this developing […]

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SMITE 2 enters into a second alpha weekend with two...

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2024/05/31

Did you miss the last time SMITE 2 held a weekend alpha test? Fret not because there’s a second alpha test happening right now, which brings with it two more characters and the expected assortment of gameplay updates as Hi-Rez iterates on the MOBA. The two new-to-the-sequel additions are Hades and Sol, both of whom […]

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Final Fantasy XIV will release the second Dawntrail...

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2024/05/31

The revised version of Final Fantasy XIV’s expansion benchmark is going to be a little delayed, it turns out; an article has gone live on the official site stating that Dawntrail’s revised benchmark will be going live on June 3rd. According to producer and director Naoki Yoshida, it was just a natural outgrowth of finding […]

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Elder Scrolls Online’s AMA addresses everything from...

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2024/05/31

Elder Scrolls Online’s devs sat for a lengthy ask-me-anything thread on Reddit this week – feels almost old-school now, doesn’t it? – and the ZeniMax devs answered a truckton of questions for players. Here are a few of the highlights, just be warned that the AMA was specifically limited to Gold Road and its associated […]

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Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO enters its Shared...

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2024/05/31

We’re entering the summer season in Pokemon Go, and this one is called Shared Skies. If you ignore the repeat info from the upcoming Go Fest, you might think teasing Mega Rayquaza would be enough to drive up hype, except that Niantic’s usual coyness about details rears its ugly head immediately as one of the […]

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Path of Exile 2 announces couch co-op plus...

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2024/05/31

At last night’s PlayStation reveal hoopla, Grinding Gear Games had two announcements for Path of Exile 2 ready and waiting. First, yes, the game is going to have couch co-op, along with cross-play and cross-progression, for folks who want to play on console alongside their PC brethren. And second, the game is going to launch […]

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Vague Patch Notes: Why do so many MMOs fail?

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2024/05/31

We talk a lot about MMOs that fail here on Massively Overpowered. I wrote a whole column about how our standards of success are kind of skewed so that we often look at games like RIFT as a failure despite, y’know, the game getting multiple expansions and sort of sloughing into irrelevance over a long […]

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Indie sandbox MMO Wild Terra 2 is free-to-play all...

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2024/05/31

It’s been ages since we heard anything about indie MMO Wild Terra 2, but a timely press release – and a mention on MMO Fallout – has brought it back to our attention. Juvty Worlds announced that the 2022 sandbox MMO is running a free-play weekend starting today at 1 p.m. EDT and running through […]

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