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 of it gets backlogged. That’s why there’s The MOP Up: a weekly compilation of smaller MMO stories and videos that you won’t want to miss. See any good MMO news? Hit us up through our tips line!

This week we’ll gorge on free games from the entire Tribes library, find out what Oort Online’s new name is, get a first look at Lord of the Rings Online’s latest update, and more!

New games and testing

Patches

Odds and ends

Videos

The open world sandbox Oort Online has gotten a name change to Boundless. “It describes players’ boundless imaginations when creating, the boundless opportunities to visit new places and meet other players, the boundless ways you can exploit the in-game economy, and the boundless variety of creatures you’ll discover,” the devs explained. You can check out the… interesting name announcement video below. [Thanks to Jose for the tip!]

LOTRO Players has a first impressions video up looking at Lord of the Rings Online’s Minas Tirith.

Drakensang Online dug up its lead artist for a half-hour video interview to talk about creating the look of the game. Check it out:

Steparu provided this looking at Civilization Online’s system features:

Reader Vikingr pointed us at this interview of Star Citizen’s Marketing Coordinator Sandi Gardiner. If you’d rather listen/watch it, we have the whole thing below: