Massively Overpowered

I'm sure it was a random coincidence, but last week two different Star Wars Galaxies emulators posted about steps they were taking against cheaters and RMT purveyors: SWGemu banned 65 accounts for real-money trading, while SWG Legends banned a pile more for similar offenses, recouping over 12B in credits. SWGL then doled out tempbans and permabans to people who knowingly...

Blowing things up usually doesn't get too old, but there's always room for new and unique ways for stuff to go boom. Enter Last Oasis' latest update, which brings on three new types of bombs for players to huck at things. Or for players to worry about, depending on which side of the bomb they're on. There's a Cluster Bomb,...

Looking good and firing guns. That's what APB Reloaded is all about. OK, maybe not all it's about, but those two arguably important aspects of the game are getting adjusted in today's patch. On the subject of clothing changes, over 100 clothing items are moving from ARMAS to the Joker Store and clothing bundle prices will be automatically discounted depending...

So apparently somebody at Xbox was watching the PlayStation 5 preorder debacle last night and said, "Hey so yeah let's not emulate that clownshow." We say this because it's set a nice clean preorder date and time for the preorder launch, a nice clean preorder date and time that isn't "tomorrow - just kidding, right now - just kidding,...

With One Wasteland out in the wild this week and dynamic overland difficulty finally in the game, Fallout 76 is prepping for its next big thing, and that means changes to the roadmap for the rest of the year and beyond. "In a previous version of our 2020 Roadmap, we had shown you that the Steel Dawn questline was planned...

Framed. Convicted. Exiled. Now, shipwrecked? What do the fates have in store for me next? Perhaps this Isle of Siptah will be my redress. Wait, what was that sound... Say what you will of Funcom, but after my first taste of the shipwrecked survival life, I think it got something right with Isle of Siptah. The Conan Exiles expansion is...

Riot Games' team-based tactical shooter Valorant has been, by all accounts, enjoying some quiet yet steady success. Even so, that only means that the game should continue to grow and adapt, and a general idea of those plans were talked about by game director Joe Ziegler in an interview with US Gamer. Plans for future updates to Valorant are generally...

Despite the appearance, the Venthyr of Revendreth in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands do not really vant to dreenk your blud. They vant to make you a better person because you were kind of awful in life, but there's the potential for some kind of redemption at the end of the day, hence being tossed into this particular corner of the eponymous Shadowlands. Any blud-dreenking that...

Every year, Final Fantasy XIV has a quartet of anniversary stories to shed more light on the characters of the game's story. But this year, the last story isn't filling in gaps in the usual way. Instead, this last story of the year is closing the book on a side story that has been running since the launch of Shadowbringers with...

Yesterday, several members of the Crowfall dev team sat for an AMA with DownToQuest Twitch, and while the whole broadcast isn't up for non-subscribers as we type this, several fun clips are, with useful insight into the game's development. Notably, ArtCraft's J. Todd Coleman discusses the overhaul for class design and balance. "The marching orders I had for the design team...