What’s going on with City of Heroes now: ‘This game is a unicorn’
Last night, following our podcast on the City of Heroes SCORE private server mess, I hung out on the SEGS Discord thanks to an...
ArenaNet says Guild Wars 2 is ‘still going strong’ and here to stay
ArenaNet's been pretty quiet, outside of Guild Wars 2 promotion, for the last two months since it was rocked by the layoffs of 143...
CCP Games thinks EVE Online is about to make it big in China and Korea
We've previously covered CCP Games' Hilmar Petersson's comments on not giving up after all EVE Online's unsuccessful spinoffs, including most recently Project Nova. But...
‘Secret’ City of Heroes emulator operators address SCORE leak drama, rebut personal info database rumor
If you've been around the post-sunset City of Heroes community long enough, you've probably heard the rumors that there's a secret City of Heroes...
SWTOR’s Charles Boyd on new gearing and character progression in Onslaught
Hopefully, you've seen our other coverage of the Star Wars: The Old Republic community cantina that took place this past weekend. If not, you...
Turbine founder Johnny Monsarrat reminisces about the early days of MMO development
It's good now and again to take a look back at how things used to be to really appreciate where we are now, and...
Interview: Astellia deep-dives its dungeon systems and Western tweaks
Incoming buy-to-play MMORPG Astellia has been a whirlwind in 2019 as Nexon and Barunson EA have prepared the game for release in the west:...
Adventure Academy is an ‘educational massively multiplayer online game’ launching May 1
Adventure Academy is going to mystify the typical gamer: There are no dragons to fight and no lockboxes to fight over. But if you're...
SpatialOS interview suggests tech can handle 20K MMO players in a ‘relatively low-fidelity but seamless world’
Even SpatialOS seems grim about the outlook for western MMOs. MMO players will recall that Improbable's SpatialOS is a "distributed computing platform for building...
The Survivalist: Surprise! Rend launches today with a $9.99 sale as Frostkeep teases new game
Earlier today we heard the news of Rend servers consolidating, and that definitely raised a few eyebrows. In fact, we noted, "It’s not exactly...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida is taking fan feedback into account for Hrothgar and Viera
There are a lot of people excited to play Viera and Hrothgar in Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers. There are also a lot of people...
EverQuest Next failed to clear its ‘technical hurdle,’ but Daybreak hasn’t given up on a sequel
Did EverQuest Next fail to come to fruition because it wasn't fun, the studio didn't want it, or its technical challenges were too great...
Epic’s Tim Sweeney on the Epic Games Store, self-publishing, and proper moderation
Epic Games found itself in a spot of hot water recently when it was discovered that its Epic Games Store was pulling users' Steam...
Tamriel Infinium: A conversation with The Elder Scrolls Online’s Abnur Tharn
For my first assignment at Massively Overpowered, I wanted to make a statement. No fluff piece or softball interview is good enough for our...
EverQuest’s Holly Longdale discusses Daybreak’s reacquisition thrust
Is the original EverQuest doing better than it ever has? Probably not; the game has been running for 20 years now. But it has been...
Pokemon Go looks to the future in new interview as it announces Clamperl-focused limited research event
It's hard to believe that it's been over two years since Pokemon Go launched, starting an international craze that seemingly had everyone out and...
Seek memories in Path of Exile’s newly announced Synthesis league beginning March 8
Betrayal. Incursion. Prophecy. Breach. Talisman. Nemesis. Ambush. Instead of words of the day, Path of Exile has words of the league. And with so...
Introducing AxE: Alliance vs Empire, Nexon’s next mobile MMO coming west
It used to be that the idea of playing an MMO on a phone was a pretty farfetched idea. Not so much anymore: Mobile...
Interview: Black Desert’s Pearl Abyss on battle royale design, metrics, cron stones, and future content
Black Desert has had a wild ride over the last year, as has its home studio, Pearl Abyss. Not only did PA pick up...
Hands-on with Amazon’s New World sandbox – and its distinctively MMO mechanics
Can a survival sandbox game be an MMORPG? Until recently, the answer has been pretty much a big nope. Mostly that's because the game...
