Massively Overpowered

If you really enjoy SoulWorker Online but find yourself frustrated that there are times when you have to be away from your desktop and thus can't play it, that's... probably not a healthy balance between your hobbies and your life. But it also means you're exactly in the target audience for the new SoulWorker Anime Legends, the mobile version...

I spend a lot of time thinking about online ARPGs these days. It's always been a genre I've enjoyed, and since taking over the Not So Massively column last year, I've made a special effort to spend more time playing and analyzing them. Recently it occurred to me that although I've played a great many ARPGs and enjoyed most...

Over the course of this past June we've been checking in on V4, a new MMORPG from Nexon arriving to PC and mobile devices in the west. The game is promising cross-platform play, "limitless" progression, 100-player boss battles, cross-server teaming options, and a whole lot of eye candy. And while the game was offering up pre-registration, what it wasn't...

It turns out to have been a bad week to start subbing to Lord of the Rings Online. As we've been covering, LOTRO is now on its seventh day of issues now. The outages and severdowns began last week and continued into the weekend, when many of the servers were taken offline for the better part of a 48-hour period....

Tomorrow is looking increasingly likely for Torchlight III's next content update -- and a big update it'll be, at that. With Wednesday's patch, the game will officially open up its endgame system, a repeatable instance known as Fazeer’s Dun’djnn Challenge. Echtra Games is putting the final touches on Fazeer to make sure that it works properly and has all of...

When dealing with a long-running MMO, it's easy to sort its history into eras based on expansions. But it's also good to remember that those eras are continually shifting. Case in point: EU players have been playing World of Warcraft post-Mists of Pandaria longer than they were playing before Mists launched, and North American players aren't far away from...

On MOP, we don't do formal reviews; we've spent the last 10 years arguing that MMORPGs change so dramatically from year to year that the standard launch review is kinda pointless, and no MMO should really be stuck with its launch grade years later. (Sometimes they get better; sometimes they get worse!) So we don't sweat the numbers and...

After Massively OP's MJ snuffed the life out of the queen's assassin, she discovered what the coven was plotting in ESO's Greymoor. And it turns out to be two even bigger threats to the land. Now, it looks like she's in a production of The Liar, the Witch, and the Werewolf. What plot twists will she encounter as she...

Don't let that image above fool you. That's no ordinary covered wagon, that's a high-tech teleportation device that will forever change how players travel between player-owned towns in Shroud of the Avatar once Release 80 arrives. This new advanced form of inter-town travel was previewed in this week's newsletter, which details how these player-owned town teleporters work. Player town governors...

Star Citizen will eventually have beasts like crabs, cows, and space whales. They will likely provide crafting materials and salable components. But what if you decided to go all Monster Hunter and use their pieces as armor? That was the focus of the latest Star Citizen Live video, which brought devs Jeremiah Lee and Chance Rowe on to show...