Massively Overpowered

So Cosmic Break is a game you may never have heard of, but it has definitely kept itself going for a while. Really. The game launched in Japan in 2008 and is still running now. It launched in North America back in 2010, but that version shut down... in 2019, meaning that it definitely had legs everywhere. It's a...

In what is probably both the most wholesome and strangest protest in recent memory, the players of Red Dead Online have banded together to call out developer Rockstar's lack of updates by dressing up like clowns. According to Magnar, a player who manages a Discord that has formed around this protest, it all came about by a desire to express...

Overwatch is feeling rather cultured, apparently, as the multiplayer shooter has taken to appreciating classical music and the character Sigma all at once as it introduces Sigma's Maestro Challenge, a mini-event running between now and Monday, July 27th. The event is pretty simple in terms of activities and scope: Players simply have to earn wins in Quick Play, Competitive Play,...

RuneScape is one of those games that always seems to fly under my radar. It's not intentional, and I don't have anything especially against the game, but I've never played it and never had the strong urge to play it. Judging the ongoing financial success of RuneScape and Jagex, I'm in the minority here. Of course, I'd heard about a...

You've heard it from the World of Warcraft development team over and over: Anima for your covenants in Shadowlands will not be a grind. A recent interview with production director Patrick Dawson goes into even more detail on this point, explaining that the team is working hard to move away from anything that feels like it might be a...

When you start up your first character in a new MMO, it's all fresh and novel. But if you're the sort of tedious weirdo who makes a lot of alts (and for the record, my hand is up here), you probably have other things on your mind when you make your seventh alt. Or your 29th. Point being that...

Ah, Scholomance: It might just be the dungeon I've run the most times in all of MMOs. And now Blizzard is asking you to play it all over again in Hearthstone, kinda, now that Scholomance Academy has launched for the game. "At Scholomance Academy, students will immerse themselves in a range of magical disciplines designed to empower their continued success...

A week or two ago, we covered the especially-amusing-to-MMO-fans news that Sony was gunning to buy up Leyou, the Chinese holding company that both owns the majority of Warframe's Digital Extremes and is working on multiple MMOs itself, including a new Lord of the Rings MMO, Transformers Online, and Civilization Online. It's amusing to us, of course, because Sony...

The future has been revealed for Astellia Online, and that future is contained in one word: Avalon. The next big content update will take players back to this magical place, which is getting a major rework. There will be new Astel friends to collect, better rewards from Zender, and adjusted NPCs and quests. Also, there's this: "The basic weapons and armors...

With massive adjustments, patch filler, and wipes incoming, Torchlight III isn't the most stable of online environments these days. Weirdly enough, it may actually be more interesting to play on the public test realm, which has opened up this week for those looking to check out the new endgame "dun'djinn." "We believe the public test realm will provide an alternative...