Massively Overpowered

The race to the top of the Dungeons and Dragons Online Hardcore League that kicked off in June has ended, and now it's time to congratulate the winners. Leaderboards have been posted that introduce players to the top earners of Favor and Reaper XP during the permadeath mode's third season. With the current season complete and the leaderboards closed, the...

It's certainly no secret that World of Warcraft's storyline has been a hot, confusing mess of azerite, burning elf trees, and slumbering old gods over the past few years. So whether you're coming back to the game for Shadowlands after a long absence or simply got lost in the lore weeds somewhere in Battle for Azeroth, we have a...

Politically, things in the US are... charged, to say the least, and the impact of misinformation efforts across social media platforms is more in the spotlight than it ever has been before. However, one prominent roleplay group in Fallout 76 ran afoul of the efforts by Facebook to stop these digital groups with a brief banning of several of...

If you've been wondering what's going on with that new IP that's almost certainly in development at ZeniMax Online Studios... well, we don't know yet. But we do know that development seems to be ramping up, with more job listings and hiring offers looking for a larger number of people to round out the development team. If you've forgotten...

We don't quite have patch 5.35 here yet, but we do know that the patch will add the Bozjan Southern Front to Final Fantasy XIV in lieu of prior expansions offering the Deep Dungeon at this point. This is kind of significant. For a long time, this was a feature that I just assumed we would be getting in the expansion...

Last week, Elite: Dangerous began to spill information about the upcoming Odyssey expansion with a video about missions and their move to on-ground locations like stations and NPCs. That subject was mostly the focal point for the latest Discovery Scanner devstream, which opened up further about the mechanics of finding things to do on foot. When face-to-face with mission givers,...

An inordinate amount of my time has been spent playing Spellbreak recently. I’m honestly not a gigantic fan of battle royale as a primary game mode, but I can barely put this one down. With all this time spent in game, I’ve begun to develop a few thoughts on how I would tweak and tune up the gameplay, just...

Having raised over $145,000 in its Kickstarter campaign to date, The Wagadu Chronicles is tearing into its stretch goals like a lion enjoying a gazelle snack on the Serengeti. Already, the campaign has unlocked three stretch goals of additional features: a sea navigation system, the Swala sub-lineage, and an ancient African board came that can be played in-game called Oware. The...

Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen has shared another monthly developer roundtable podcast for fans and followers of the game, but this particular topic might be a prickly one if some of the video's reactions are an indicator. In it, Ben "Kilsin" Walters sits down with customer service manager Michael "Artois" Butler to answer questions related to pledging, fundraising, and...

The wild and untamed waters of Sea of Thieves' Caribbean are a little more choppy as of late -- and not because of pirate vessels sailing through them. The game is currently in a bit of an uproar as developer Rare and prominent streamers are butting heads over the issue of toxicity. Despite the studio pledging this past August to...