Massively Overpowered

What's a MOBA without heroes to control and bosses to fight? A wholly non-existent game, that's what, and TERA's in-development Battle Arena MOBA side piece will absolutely feature both. And if you don't believe me, then you can look at a spotlight post for yourself. Unless you really thought a doggo dual-wielding wrenches as weapons is something I would...

In what is probably one of the most creative and surprising bits of synergy between gaming and the real world, a Taiwanese branch of IKEA has managed to recreate its catalogue's offerings in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, cobbling together pages from the store's catalogue into in-game versions of themselves. The showcased decor is almost shot-for-shot accurate to the real store's...

All right, let's make something very clear right off the bat: There will be spoilers in this column. If you have managed to not do the content yet and wish to avoid spoilers, fairly warned be ye. The probability of a fan of Final Fantasy XIV having waited for two weeks to do the story content seems kind of...

It's patch day for Elder Scrolls Online, and this is no ordinary patch: It's the Stonethorn DLC and update 27, which as we've been covering ushers in the character pathing system for player homes. Let's start with the DLC: Stonethorn, which is buyable for 1500 crowns for PC players or free with the sub. It includes two group dungeons: "Castle Thorn...

Anyone who’s been following Crowfall over the years since its original Kickstarter has likely at one point or another felt like the game’s development was dragging out to infinity - pre-alpha seemed to have no ending. So a couple weeks ago when ArtCraft pulled the trigger and opened up its beta to the masses (well, to many of its...

It would appear that the fortunes for early access survival MMO Population Zero are not improving whatsoever. In fact, the game's population as of a current check of Steam Charts sees a single person playing right now, with a 24-hour peak of only two people. Worse yet, the game's Steam page and official site have not posted any new...

It may not be a good idea to base all of your hopes and dreams on Halo Infinite at this point in time. It was bad enough that 343 Industries recently announced that the multiplayer shooter would be delaying into 2021, but the scuttlebutt is that a further delay may be in the cards -- and worse. VG247 published a...

This past month, we've been keeping an eye on a little fantasy MMORPG called Past Fate that's been waging a crowdfunding campaign to help with its development. And it's been a successful campaign, too, closing out at $25,364 with the help of over a hundred backers, several of whom pitched in as much as $4000 apiece. The team said that...

The ongoing kaiju-sized hand-slapping fight between Epic Games and Apple isn't just about two massive corporations having a hissy fit over money; it's tangentially about whether developers will be able to use Unreal Engine to create games on iOS, something that readers will recall is under real threat thanks to retaliatory actions taken by Apple like cutting Epic off...

I've been kind of obsessed with dark patterns - that is, intentionally deceptive or annoying interface design - for kind of a while now, so it's vindicating to see research on the subject. Last year, researchers from Princeton analyzed 11,000 online shopping sites to identify 15 specific types of dark patterns across 1818 instances they found on those sites....