Massively Overpowered

Just two weeks ago, we covered the simultaneously amusing and sad story about Red Dead Online players dressing up as clowns to protest a huge content drought in the game. I mean, clowns? They're funny. But content droughts? Not funny. Especially when the content lapse goes on for months and months and months. In any case, the clowns can put...

Week after week in this round of Choose My Adventure, I've been finding little things to love about Dungeons and Dragons Online and this final week put a capstone on my enjoyment. A cherry on my sundae. A flambe flourish on my Baked Alaska. I might be hungry as I type this. And while I will admit that ongoing technical issues...

Wouldn't it be easier to just sign up for beta testing and playtesting events via Steam instead of other means? Yes, it would. And wouldn't it be nicer to have the ability to flag people for tests directly through the client rather than having people redeem beta keys manually? The answer to that is also yes, which is the...

So Black Desert has some good news and bad news this past week. And the bad news leads in to the good news, so let's do that first: Pearl Abyss and Kakao are shutting down the summer season servers early on PC. August 26th is the new end date. Frustrating, yes, but the goal here is a noble one,...

It may be strange to consider, but the 2020 opening of Ahn'Qiraj in WoW Classic may actually be a bigger deal than it was back in vanilla. It's certainly building up to be the event spotlight of the year for Classic players -- and now it has begun. As of today, the server-wide war effort to gather resources and undergo...

If it seems like we've been talking about improved performance in The Elder Scrolls Online for a really long time, you're not nuts because it was exactly a year ago at QuakeCon that ZeniMax dropped its first timeline of the planned improvements. But performance in Cyrodiil in particular has been a concern for the game a lot longer (here's...

Let's talk about money! Pretend money in video games, that is. I've been thinking about this a bit lately since realizing that I use money as a top marker of accomplishment in MMORPGs: I find I measure my personal success in a game based more on how much money I can make rather than using whatever arbitrary measurement the...

When you think about it, combining board games with MMORPGs isn't the worst idea in the world. Graphical MUDs and games like Stash have brought this kind of experience to players for years now, but it may be that World Seed represents the next level of board game MMOs. "World Seed is heavily inspired by classic tabletop board games," the...

If you like your dungeon crawler hack n' slash games more pixelated and challenging, then you might be familiar with Hammerwatch, a game that was released in 2013 to some overall high acclaim judging on critical and Steam user reviews. A sequel was released on PC in 2018 called Heroes of Hammerwatch, making it more of a twin-stick bullet...

Ah, the 64-bit client! 64-bit clients for games are pretty well the norm by now, but some games have held back. One such example was TERA's EU version, but no longer; the game will be migrating to a new 64-bit client at the beginning of August, allowing for greater RAM access, more asynchronous loading, DirectX 11, and a new...