EVE Fanfest introduced one hell of a meme-made-real for followers this weekend with the revelation that it’s teaming up with Microsoft for Excel integrations particularly for EVE On-line. We additionally realized that CCP’s newest EVE-flavored FPS continues to be in manufacturing.

In the meantime, Activision-Blizzard bought smacked with one other lawsuit and introduced Warcraft Arclight Rumble, Star Citizen is rumpling your bedsheets, Jack Emmert left Dawn’s Marvel MMO to go up a brand new outfit for NetEase, and Path of Exile introduced its Sentinel league.

Learn on to meet up with the easiest of this week’s MMO information and opinions immediately as each Sunday (since 2010!) in Massively Overpowered’s Week in Overview!

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EVE Fanfest 2022: The EVE On-line universe FPS continues to be in growth – EVE On-line developer CCP Video games has had its eye on the first-person-shooter style for over a decade at this level, beginning with its PS3-exclusive DUST 514 that was launched in…

LOTRO Legendarium: Remembering 15 wonderful years of Lord of the Rings On-line – Server efficiency points apart, Lord of the Rings On-line’s fifteenth anniversary has been a smashing success. It has been far higher an occasion than I had anticipated, to be sincere, particularly…

WoW Issue: Is dragon driving in World of Warcraft Dragonflight borrowed energy? – So there’s an entire lot of stuff to speak about proper now with regards to World of Warcraft: Dragonflight; that is not underneath debate. Heck, I’ve about 4 or…

Jack Emmert is seemingly main a brand new NetEase studio – and never Dawn’s Marvel MMO – So keep in mind how Jack Emmert, the previous Cryptic Studios boss, had moved over to Dawn in 2016, the place he was heading up Dimensional Ink, which was not solely sustaining DC…

Wandering Wraeclast: Pets pounce into Path of Exile’s new Sentinel league – Two issues I completely love in video games are housing and pets. And having each simply makes a sport higher! Path of Exile already has a type of the primary (hideouts),…

Blizzard proclaims Warcraft Arclight Rumble, a brand new technique sport for cellular units – Had you forgotten that immediately was the reveal of Blizzard’s upcoming Warcraft cellular sport? Properly it is right here now. Warcraft Arclight Rumble is its identify, and strategic battles are its sport… er, it is the…

Imprecise Patch Notes: The negatives of MMORPG rogue servers – Final week, we started a dialogue concerning the ups and downs of rogue servers within the MMO house, by which I really imply we talked completely concerning the positives as a result of I…

CIG’s studies for Star Citizen and Squadron 42 recount work on AI, space design, and bedsheet deformation – The month-to-month growth progress studies for Star Citizen and Squadron 42 are in, and because the headline to this story suggests, updates from final month oscillate between the important and…

Elite Harmful lays out 2022 roadmap, new plan for console-to-PC migration – At this level, something Frontier proclaims for Elite Harmful makes gamers simply as nervous concerning the sport’s future as unhealthy information and no information, so the staff might as properly…

New York Metropolis simply lodged a brand new lawsuit in opposition to Activision-Blizzard – A brand new lawsuit filed in Delaware by a number of New York Metropolis retirement and pension funds alleges in court docket one thing that is appeared like an open secret for months: that Activision-Blizzard CEO…

Excellent Ten: Why we want extra post-apocalyptic MMOs – Ever since enjoying the unique Wasteland again within the late ’80, I’ve had a excessive fascination with post-apocalyptic settings. But it isn’t been essentially the most fertile and frequent playgrounds for…

MMO Enterprise Roundup: ArenaNet’s pro-choice stance, Blizzard’s new VP, and Nexon’s new CEO – Welcome again to a different fast roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent business information. Human rights – ArenaNet and NCsoft have lent their voices – or not less than their Twitter accounts -…

World of Warcraft ‘experiments’ with raid rewards in preparation for Dragonflight – It is all the time a super-comforting happenstance when a sport studio decides that it needs to wildly monkey with the present MMO to arrange for an upcoming growth. That is the state of affairs that…

EVE Fanfest 2022: EVE On-line places spreadsheets in your spreadsheets – Whereas EVE On-line’s nickname of “spreadsheets in house” was meant as a joke, the builders behind the sport are actually leaning into it. CEO Hilmar Petursson remarks at occasions that…

Misplaced Ark previews Might’s upcoming new raids, quests, and Destroyer superior class – We’re simply coming into the month of Might and that implies that Misplaced Ark gamers are going to have some new content material to face, most of which is aimed on the…

Menma’s TERA emulator awaits those that are on the lookout for a brand new residence earlier than the MMO’s PC shutdown – With information that TERA goes to be sunsetting on PC in June, one of many widespread questions requested by soon-to-be refugees is that if there’s an emulator or rogue server…

Darkfall: Rise of Agon preps Steam closed beta, ‘retires’ official boards – 5 years after Darkfall: Rise of Agon launched, the PvP MMORPG is preparing to enter closed beta as soon as extra. This time, nevertheless, it is for the upcoming Steam model.…

Gravity is seemingly cracking down on Ragnarok’s rogue server group – The Ragnarok On-line rogue server group is in uproar this week as Ragnarok’s Korean developer and writer, Gravity Co., has filed not less than one lawsuit and seems to be cracking…

Massively Overthinking: The minimal necessities for MMO participant housing – We have housing on the mind recently, due to Ship of Heroes’ housing beta, Remaining Fantasy XIV’s botched housing lottos, Warframe’s new housing, and World of Warcraft doing… regardless of the…

Wandering Wraeclast: Path of Exile’s Sentinel replace enhances endgame with new passives and mob modifiers – Earlier this afternoon, Grinding Gear Video games introduced Path of Exile’s foray into in-game “pets” (with a twist!) coming with the brand new Sentinel league that can launch on Might thirteenth and…

Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore heads to Kickstarter with an ask simply above $63,000 and an open take a look at working concurrently – We have been conserving our eyes on Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore for some time now, because it’s the most recent in a protracted line of video games promoting itself as a throwback indie sandbox…

Ship of Heroes’ participant housing beta begins immediately – As promised, Metropolis of Heroes-inspired indie MMORPG Ship of Heroes is throwing open its superhero doorways for a contemporary spherical of open beta starting immediately. This eighth leg of testing…

LOTRO guarantees a ‘significant slice of engineering’ to handle server efficiency – One of many unlucky unwanted side effects of Lord of the Rings On-line’s inhabitants increase amid its fifteenth anniversary celebrations is that all the gamers have put elevated pressure on…

Black Desert’s new silver and extraction rebalance raises contemporary whaling complaints – We have a little bit of an eyebrow-raiser for you from Black Desert this morning: Pearl Abyss is making a precision strike on the economic system within the type of a silver…

RIFT brings again its first battle move and packs the remainder of the 12 months with occasions – Whereas RIFT’s “nice replace” of 2022 ended up being considerably of a disappointment — though not a stunning one, contemplating Gamigo’s layoffs within the months earlier — the fantasy MMO…

AQ3D group supervisor quits after lodging sexual harassment allegations in opposition to Artix Leisure dev – (We have up to date this finish of this text with the most recent developments, which embrace the CM retracting her declare of office sexual harassment.) One other potential sexual harassment scandal has erupted in…

Legends of Aria talks up its subsequent testing phases and makes an attempt to rationalize why it ‘wants’ the blockchain – Legends of Aria is continuous to beat the drum of its revamp and restructuring right into a blockchain and NFT-filled MMORPG. A brand new dev weblog from the sport’s new house owners talks…

Battle or Kite: CRSED FOAD aka Delicacies Royale is a mouthful of an ‘MMO’ – In my ever-widening seek for a sport that sticks with me for longer than just a few weeks I’ve stumbled throughout a battle royale I hadn’t performed earlier than: I discovered…

Riot doesn’t need the Runeterra MMO to ‘be the one sport you’ll ever play’ – Riot Video games’ Greg “Ghostcrawler” Avenue has been dropping extra phrases on Twitter to tease and hype the MMORPG he is spearheading for the corporate. The most recent spherical is all about time…

Misplaced Ark begins blocking VPNs to assist servers fighting bot-laden queues – Should you’re on sure Misplaced Ark servers, you might need seen that the queues aren’t actually going away, even in the course of the night time, and in the event you consider the…

Activision-Blizzard needs shareholders to vote in opposition to making the corporate launch public abuse studies – The Activision-Blizzard annual shareholders assembly is coming quickly, and several other proposals are up for voting. Amongst these proposals is a required report that outlines the corporate’s makes an attempt to forestall harassment…

PAX East 2022’s COVID outbreak has already resulted in a single dying – Final week, we coated the story about an obvious COVID outbreak at PAX East, which adopted an outbreak at GDC; a minimum of the Boston Globe referred to as the virus, which…

SWG Legends’ new ranching, farming, taming, spicing, and smuggling patch is now stay – When Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends introduced a significant patch so as to add farming, ranching, and spicing into the sport two weeks in the past, I did not think about it was shut,…

Knowledge of Nym: Inspecting Remaining Fantasy XIV’s refreshed PvP system – It needs to be irritating to be one of many PvP designers engaged on Remaining Fantasy XIV. Not as a result of the general staff does not assist you (I doubt that is the case), not…

THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS

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