Massively Overpowered

Hey guy? Yeah, you might want to move a scootch to the left there. Little more. There, you got it. Now you're not about to be squashed like a bug when Final Fantasy XIV characters rain from the sky as they are wont to do. You know that song, "It's Raining Men?" That should instill terror in you, not...

If you have played an MMO with bullets in it, odds are good you have dodged at least one just because of how these video games work. That's not literally what I'm asking about today. No, today I'm talking about the times when you stop playing a game and then immediately learn about something that would have made you...

If anyone’s ever told you to “take a chill pill,” then the Battle Bards have your full dosage in today’s episode. Exploring peaceful and serene tracks from MMORPGs, Syl and Syp find their inner calm — before the inevitable slaughter. Battle Bards is the world’s first, best, and only MMO music podcast. Biweekly episodes alternate between examining a single MMO’s soundtrack...

Run, gun, survive, and have fun. Ideally, anyway. That's the hope of Kakao Games' newly released sci-fi survival multiplayer shooter Dysterra, which made its arrival to early access last week on Steam. Describing itself as a combination of Rust and Halo, Dysterra drops players into each game with nothing but a rifle and a sidearm, letting them get right into...

These days, a lot of the content you explore in Final Fantasy XI will be done with alter egos, because Trust magic has become an integral cornerstone of the game as a whole. For that reason, moments like the upcoming Alter Ego Extravaganza are important because they give you a chance to pick up alter egos you might not...

An apocalyptic fantasy world where humanity is on the brink of extinction, you say? Even featured in the illustrious Choose My Adventure? You've piqued Massively OP's MJ's interest! OK, to be honest she bought Grim Dawn a long, long time ago, but her own apocalypses distracted her from playing it. Now, the time has come: Nothing will stop her...

While the Wizardry series may not have the cultural cache that Ultima or Final Fantasy ended up with, nevertheless the dungeon crawling RPG series cultivated a sizable fan base. The first title by studio Sir-Tech came out in 1981, with seven more arriving to challenge players over the next two decades. As I said, it was an extremely modest success...

Pre-alpha testing for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is back on the menu once again, as the latest monthly digest confirms that a 24-hour pre-alpha will kick off on Saturday, December 3rd, starting at 1:00 p.m. EST. The primary goal of this test will be to once again see if the game's network structure can stand up to player...

Don't bother getting Kathy the blender. She's going to be thankful and I know it's on her list, but the fact is that Kathy is going to use it twice, realize she doesn't know what to do with a blender, box it back up and resell it on eBay with like tons of other people. Just get her...

Back in the day, it used to be that first-person perspectives were the norm for many CRPGs and early MMOs. I guess it went hand-in-hand with the FPS genre explosion in the '90s, too, as technology finally advanced enough to immerse us right into the eyeballs of our protagonists. Of course, subsequent games quickly pulled the camera to different positions,...