Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMOÂ news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered’s Week in Review!
This week, Massively OP’s Eliot Lefebvre checked out Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns expansion in person, taking the Revenant class out for a spin and scoping out the new zone and PvP. Plus PAX East happened, and FFXIV mostly stole the show! Here’s what we’ve gotten up so far (with more on the way tomorrowday):
- PAX East 2015: Final Fantasy XIV’s Heavensward launches on June 23
- PAX East 2015: A chat with SOTA’s Richard Garriott
- PAX East 2015: Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns beta is on the way
- PAX East 2015: Guild Wars 2 teases upcoming WvW borderlands map
- PAX East 2015: Overwatch aims for fall beta, introduces two new characters
- PAX East 2015: Hearthstone’s Blackrock Mountain adventure arrives in April
- PAX East 2015: Heroes of the Storm plans tuition tourney, reveals Sylvanas champion
- PAX East 2015: Hands-on with Undead Labs’ Moonrise
Also, you guys kinda funded the hell out of our Kickstarter. And we love ya. Read on for a look at the rest of this week’s top MMO stories.
- World of Warcraft is getting gold and gametime transfer tokens
- Daybreak layoffs totaled 140 in San Diego
- Elder Scrolls Online’s Update 6 is live, and there’s a trailer too
- Storybricks has closed down
- The factionless WoW player dings level 100
- Indie Harry Potter MMO slapped with cease and desist by Warner Bros.
- Former SWTOR bigwig dislikes the term ‘whale’
- Star Trek Online installs memorials for Leonard Nimoy, other franchise vets
- RIFT players have clocked 45,817 years of gameplay
- Camelot Unchained’s alpha is now live
- SWTOR took its first step into competitive gaming and fell on its face
- Gold Saucer impressions in Final Fantasy XIV
- Five off-the-beaten path LOTRO locales you must visit
- Here’s what a Black Desert raid boss looks like
- Crowfall is raking in the big bucks
- Fan leads the charge to revitalize Graal Online
- Daybreak constricts gamemasters in EQ and EQII
- WoW Factor: A self-defeating genre
- David Braben says Elite won’t be ‘dumbed down’ for consoles
- Funcom’s financials improved in Q4 2014 but are down year-over-year
- Daybreak now has two G.I.R.L. scholarships for 2015
Here’s what our Stream Team was up to this week:
- The Stream Team: MOBA madness
- The Stream Team: Shooting Squirrel Girl to 60 in Marvel Heroes
- MJ has begun uploading the Kickstarter countdown streams
Our friends at Blizzard Watch posted some fun stuff too:
- How to collect heirlooms in World of Warcraft
- Little Miss Nerd Chef brings the culinary arts to World of Warcraft
- WoW’s “selfie fever”
New this week on the site was Choose My Adventure, back from the dead! Expect more surprises this week as we return one old column and introduce a new one. Any guesses?
