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The Stream Team: Hurray for more AQ3D housing features
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 for friends, more housing...
Betawatch: Tencent’s Tarisland eyes its June release
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 or not. I won't,...
Marvel Rivals confirms launch on Xbox and PS5, two new characters, and a multi-platform beta in July
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 announcement from NetEase confirms the...
Monster Hunter Wilds’ first gameplay trailer showcases new monsters and new mechanics
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 showcase, which is where...
Blizzard throws anniversary celebrations for Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal
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 from June 6th through the...
MMO Business Roundup: Activision owned cheatmaker EngineOwning
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 over $14M in damages and...
Destiny 2 provides one more Final Shape preview, collabs with Dungeons & Dragons for a cash shop bundle
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 shared previously: The newsletter gives...
The Stream Team: Taking a peek at the closed alpha of Corepunk
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 MMOARPG!
What: Corepunk
Who: Chris Neal
When:...
SMITE 2 enters into a second alpha weekend with two more gods and gameplay updates
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 have some tweaks to their...
Final Fantasy XIV will release the second Dawntrail benchmark on June 3
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 a late-hour bug that...
Elder Scrolls Online’s AMA addresses everything from DDOS attacks and scribing to bifurcated content difficulty
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 update, so questions that...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon GO enters its Shared Skies season without sharing much info
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 season-wide bonuses is an...
Path of Exile 2 announces couch co-op plus simultaneous PC/console launches and updates
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 on PC and console...
Vague Patch Notes: Why do so many MMOs fail?
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 period of time, but...
Indie sandbox MMO Wild Terra 2 is free-to-play all weekend following latest content update
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 June 2nd; it's on...
Wayfinder’s Echoes update goes live for founders today as the game gets Steam Deck verified
If you were among those who bought into the promise of Wayfinder back when it was still angling to be a fully multiplayer experience, then today is the day when you can hop back in to the now multiplayer-optional title once more, as its major Echoes update-cum-business model shift goes into "soft launch" for founder's pack buyers.
As we reported...
Fallout 76 counts 20 million players as franchise interest continues to spike
It turns out that a whole lot of people are willing to crawl out through the fallout... the Fallout 76, that is. The impact of Amazon's recent first season of Fallout continues to be felt in Bethesda's games themselves, as the studio reported that it just crossed 20 million players.
This marks a three-million player increase from its December 2023...
Digital Extremes’ Soulframe talks prelude testing, character customization, and creepy dogs
Digital Extremes' Soulframe has been flying under the radar through development the last year or two, to the point that when we gave it a nod for Most Anticipated MMO, a lot of people couldn't even remember what it was. That might be changing soon as the studio has delivered the first of what will presumable be more videos...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst whaling in a multiplayer game you’ve seen in the last year?
This week, mainstream MOBA gamers flipped alllll the tables over Riot Games' gambit to sell a $450 League of Legends cosmetics bundle themed around esports star Faker. Actually, there's more than one overpriced bundle, but that's the biggest one and the one collecting headlines, particularly because Faker is ironically well-known for shunning cosmetics.
I have to admit my first reaction...
The Stream Team: Wake me up before you go go in DDO
With two of the three reagents needed to counter Lord Arden's sleeping curse in DDO, Massively OP's MJ just has one more thing to collect. But that last thing happens to be the lord's true name. Just how easy is it to get the true name of an archfae? Maybe the court doctor Sorghum can share who might know...
