Raph Koster on Crowfall’s social gameplay and robber-baron badasses
This month's Crowfall Q&A video is all about social systems, which means design consultant and MMO industry veteran Raph Koster is on camera to...
Hearthstone offers a new hero for World of Warcraft players
Odds are pretty good that if you already play World of Warcraft, you have probably taken Hearthstone for a spin. The game is now...
Black Desert players are up in arms over the P2W Ghillie Suit
There's some controversy in the Black Desert community about an item that you can buy offering a serious advantage, and yes, it's the Ghillie...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has grown the best over time?
In my opinion, a good MMO expansion doesn't just pile on new features but genuinely enhances and organically blends in with the established game...
Global Chat: The death of EverQuest Next
There are some MMO industry events that, when they occur, spark a wildfire of blog posts across the community. This past week's announcement by...
Firefall’s next update is already content-complete
What's going on behind the scenes with Firefall's production? If you had asked that a week ago, the only way to know would have...
Wisdom of Nym: Materia melding on tome gear in Final Fantasy XIV
One of the big additions with Final Fantasy XIV's patch 3.2 was tomestone gear with materia melding slots. This is something very new for...
World of Warcraft outlines the state of PvP in the Legion alpha
The big change coming to World of Warcraft's PvP in Legion is a brand-new honor system, and like anything else that's been changed wholesale...
Working As Intended: The fate of the MMORPG genre
I don't think I'm exaggerating to say that this past weekend was a strange one in the MMORPG community, when gamers across the wide expanse...
Final Fantasy XIV welcomes players back to the game with a free login campaign
A great deal of things changed in Final Fantasy XIV with the most recent patch, from the mentor system to the Hall of the...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Hatching-Tide brings new barding, new hats, and new music sheets
Most reliable scholars of Eorzea agree that the second Calamity was ushered in on March 15th, when Hatching-Tide started in Final Fantasy XIV once...
Shroud of the Avatar shows off more environmental screenshots
How pretty do the environments of Shroud of the Avatar look? According to the most recent development update, very pretty. The entry opens off...
Check out nearly two hours of early gameplay from Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen
The footage you are going to see below is not the beta test for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen. It's not the alpha. It's...
Guild Chat: How to tactfully leave a guild
Welcome along to another edition of Guild Chat, my little corner of Massively Overpowered in which I tackle readers' guild-related problems with the help...
Star Citizen’s latest episode of Around the Verse features lore, plants, and community
If you were worried about not getting to watch an hour of official Star Citizen video today, you can rest easy, because the latest...
One Shots: You got something on your face
There is a grand conspiracy among MMO developers and it is this: Every last one of them has entered into a blood pact to...
The Daily Grind: Does ambition make you skeptical of MMO development?
I freely admit that I am a bit leery of ambition in game design. Not because it's an inherently bad thing, mind you, but...
Camelot Unchained squishes bugs and improves performance in crunch time
The Camelot Unchained team is hard at work bringing the game into a beta state, and that means killing bugs. The good news is...
WRUP: A brief and entirely incorrect history of CCGs edition
The first CCG (which originally stood for "Concerted Card Gouging" but was later changed to "Collectible Card Game" after the Great Acronym Wars of...
Colin Johanson says farewell to the Guild Wars 2 community
Last week's big surprise on Friday was the departure of longtime Guild Wars 2 game director Colin Johanson from ArenaNet. Rumors and surprise swirled...
