Gamescom dominated the week in gaming, even in MMOs, as we obtained launch dates for Aion 2 and Path of Exile 2, teases of a brand new DLC for Dune Awakening, and an enormous run of trailers for everything from Sea of Remnants to Cinder City.
In the meantime, we obtained a peek at Guild Wars 3’s fluffy Asura, Star Citizen’s Squadron 42 obtained one more delay, and Blizzard took out one other World of Warcraft rogue server.
Learn on to meet up with the perfect of this week’s MMO information and opinions immediately as each Sunday (since 2010!) in Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!
THIS WEEK’S TOP STORIES
Gamescom Opening Night Live 2026: Aion 2, Path of Exile 2, and more MMO and multiplayer trailers – Gamescom has returned once more, and meaning one other spherical of Geoff Keighley’s Opening Evening Stay. Sure, it is night time in Cologne. Take it up with astrophysics. Technically, the preshow has been…
We are all shocked, shocked, that Star Citizen spinoff Squadron 42 has been delayed into 2027 – A yr or so in the past, there was a Star Citizen superfan who went into an apoplectic rage at us as a result of our little context field on the finish of each Star…
Guild Wars 3’s Asura are taller and furrier than their Guild Wars 2 descendants – but just as quirky – I actually hope you of us like creepy lil guys with creepy lil enamel as a result of immediately’s Guild Wars 3 weblog reveal is all concerning the Asura species. Though conveniently, the brand new…
Gamescom 2026: Aion 2 makes its global debut October 5 following stress test and headstart – At Gamescom’s Opening Evening Stay this afternoon, NCsoft introduced a bunch of trailers and splashed out previewing a number of video games, chief amongst them – a minimum of for MMORPG gamers – being…
Casually Classic: What clues did Season of Discovery hold for WoW Classic Plus? – As we live on in a holding sample for the eventual World of Warcraft Traditional-related bulletins at BlizzCon, predictions and expectations are zooming all over. Everybody appears…
LOTRO Legendarium: Looking back at Mines of Moria – When Turbine got here out with its first enlargement for Lord of the Rings On-line in November 2008, it got here out swinging for the fences. Mines of Moria was no piddly…
WoW Factor: Yes, there really is too much to do in World of Warcraft Midnight – I’ve simply returned to World of Warcraft after letting my sub lapse for about two months. I had accomplished every part I wished to do in season one, however now that…
Roblox clamps down on gen-AI brainrot scrolling games after Steal an Egg goes viral – We’re simply as depressed as you might be to study {that a} “brainrot scrolling sport” is a factor in Roblox, however we can also’t say that this revelation is solely shocking.…
Gamescom 2026: Exterminauts is an upcoming co-op shooter where you use mad science against alien foes – Are you sick of these boastful aliens slithering and skittering throughout their native planets as in the event that they personal the place? Are you dying — presumably really dying — to…
Gamescom 2026: Wolcen Studio announces Wolcen 2, a sequel to its troubled namesake ARPG – After ending improvement on Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem and shuttering its on-line servers in 2024, Wolcen Studio appeared to be accomplished with its namesake franchise, however you’d be flawed.…
Throne and Liberty’s abbreviated August update adds Snowsoul Weapons and new achievements in Nix – What’s extra harmful than a boss? An archboss. Above that? An ascended archboss. And above that, within the logic of Throne and Liberty, is a snowsoul. What’s a snowsoul? Effectively, Snowsoul…
Classic MMORPG Ultima Online just launched a brand-new festival event ahead of its 29th birthday – We’re only a few weeks away from Ultima On-line’s twenty ninth birthday, so naturally Broadsword’s Publish 124 – stay now on all of the manufacturing shards – units the stage for the…
Storyboard: Why is ERP still the punchline of MMORPGs? – A few of you will see that headline and you have already got your jokes teed up due to course you do. Due to course everybody does. As a result of that is simply…
Path of Exile 2 previews September 4’s Forbidden Rites league and 1.0’s new Duelist class – With Path of Exile 2 tying down a December eleventh launch from early entry, followers are seemingly desperate to study extra concerning the Duelist class that will probably be launching alongside model 1.0…
Massively Overthinking: Are you your own worst enemy in MMORPGs? How? – I used to be on YouTube some time again once I got here throughout a thumbnail for a video known as “The right way to damage video video games for your self.” I didn’t click on on this…
Gamescom 2026: The Division 2 unveils Echoes of Central Park DLC, confirms crossplay in November – There was a complete lot of stories speeding out of The Division 2 throughout this yr’s Gamescom, as Ubisoft Large used the conference to make a number of main bulletins — and certainly one of…
Vague Patch Notes: Resenting structure and blaming guidance in MMOs – Once I first began enjoying Closing Fantasy XI, I had no thought what I used to be doing, so I walked exterior and I began killing bees. I did this as a result of exterior…
Palia players grumble over a storage chest expansion silently added to the cash shop in latest patch – Usually talking, Palia gamers are a fairly chill lot, and the lately added Petals & Portraits replace appeared to carry no purpose for that to alter because the in-game autumn season slid…
Star Citizen revives Siege of Orison, adds a new ship, and fixes nearly 500 bugs with alpha 4.10 – It is time for one more contemporary construct in Star Citizen as alpha 4.10 has formally deployed, bringing together with it the return of an up to date and instanced Siege of Orison encounter, one other…
Netmarble’s popular PC/mobile MMO Vampir is coming westward, opens global registrations – MMO gamers who’ve been wishing the style had a vampire-themed MMORPG may lastly get their likelihood due to Netmarble, which immediately introduced the upcoming world launch of MMO known as Vampir.…
Perfect Ten: Subscription-free MMORPGs from before Dungeons and Dragons Online’s free-to-play transition – September 2009 is the date we have now, broadly, accepted as an vital level within the MMO style historical past as a result of it is when Dungeons & Dragons On-line switched to a free-to-play mannequin.…
Gamescom 2026: Dune Awakening confirms crossplay, DLC collab with Villeneuve’s movies – Whereas Funcom did not carry a brand new trailer to Opening Evening Stay yesterday, it is nonetheless been vocal about its journey to Gamescom this yr, so that you needed to determine the corporate…
Gamescom 2026: Hoyoverse sets a winter release for Petit Planet, unveils co-op action RPG Nodusfall – Whereas Hoyoverse may be extra well-known round right here for Genshin Affect and maybe even extra well-liked for its single-player RPGs Zenless Zone Zero and Honkai Star Rail, we now have a…
Closers’ relaunch under Papaya Play has officially begun with various celebration events – One of many extra shocking items of stories to come back out of this yr has been Closers’ un-sunsetting due to Papaya Play, with the side-scrolling anime MMO returning after its shutdown final June…
Gamescom 2026: NCsoft’s trailers for multiplayer Like or Die and Cinder City – Ultimately night time’s Gamescom’s Opening Evening Stay, we famous that NCsoft appeared to have splashed out on its look on the present – and we’re not even speaking about Guild…
Lost Ark has begun its final Amazon merge down to just five total servers today – The western Misplaced Ark playerbase is in for some tumult over the following few months: Not solely is Amazon exiting the publishing enterprise and dispatching Misplaced Ark again to developer…
Gamescom 2026: NetEase announces January launch for Ananta and December beta for Sea of Remnants – This yr’s Opening Evening Stay occasion at Gamescom noticed a few NetEase-managed video games drop some information in our nook of the gaming world, and as is our obligation, we’re pulling…
Gamescom 2026: Path of Exile 2 will finally launch out of early access this December – Throughout the Opening Evening Stay present that Kicked off Gamescom earlier this afternoon, Grinding Gear Video games dropped an enormous announcement for followers of Path of Exile 2: The multiplayer OARPG…
Built on ‘a codebase older than some of you,’ EVE Online is undergoing a major code migration – Fenris Creations fka CCP Video games actually made EVE On-line look its age immediately with a brand new weblog that discusses the corporate’s ongoing initiative to futureproof the sport, because the studio…
Aliens Fireteam Elite 2 has officially launched to rough reviews under the Daybreak banner – After secretive improvement, delays, and even a studio buyout by Dawn alongside the way in which, Chilly Iron Studios’ follow-up to Aliens Fireteam Elite is lastly right here immediately. Aliens Fireteam Elite 2…
Choose My Adventure: Cat Bard goes a-slaying in EverQuest Legends’ Steamfont Mountains – I proceed to be stunned by the outcomes of the polls for EverQuest Legends. Up to now they have been both extraordinarily shut or extraordinarily apparent, and whereas final week’s polling began out…
EverQuest Legends revamps classic Unrest, where the skelly laughter still haunts our dreams – EverQuest II is not the one EverQuest MMORPG getting love immediately: EverQuest Legends can be following up final week’s Fortress Mistmoore content material patch with one other whopper, this one centered on the…
Twitch and Amazon face class-action lawsuit over automatic opt-in of gen AI training – Readers little question recall how Amazon and Twitch kindled a firestorm of fury amongst streamers and avid gamers earlier this month when the platform unveiled an opt-out selection for generative AI…
Wisdom of Nym: Magical concepts that Final Fantasy XIV could potentially use for new jobs – I’ll open this explicit column – which itself goes to steer right into a collection of columns – with a press release that could be controversial however could not.…
The oldest Guild Wars 2 characters are turning 14 years old this week with all the concomitant birthday gifts – If in case you have a really outdated Guild Wars 2 character, you must log in and examine your mail as a result of the sport has formally turned 14 years outdated and is dispatching…
A Reddit mod used AI to hack a Star Wars Galaxies emulator over a 14-year-old grudge – Gamers of Star Wars Galaxies’ Legends server have been startled final night time by an announcement that ripped the lid off some brewing – and historical – drama within the SWG emulation…
Guild Wars 2 shares a sizzle reel for Code of Creation’s new raid and convergence rewards – Certainly you may have 50 seconds of time to ogle issues which are coming to Guild Wars 2, proper? It is not that a lot time, it is all a preview peek and never a…
Star Trek Online promises to showcase the future of the MMORPG on September 8 – Apparently the Guardian of Perpetually goes to have some issues to say about Star Trek On-line fairly quickly, as the parents at Cryptic Studios have put out a teaser video that is…
Project Ascension World of Warcraft emulator is shutting down following apparent Blizzard lawsuit settlement – Again in June, we discovered that Blizzard was pursuing one more World of Warcraft emulator in courtroom, this time Undertaking Ascension. The lawsuit accused Undertaking Ascension of infringing on the…
THIS WEEK’S CASTS & STREAMS
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