Massively Overpowered

Every fan of Final Fantasy XIV is eagerly awaiting more information about patch 5.3 along with the patch's actual release. Of course, the patch isn't arriving until August 11th, but that doesn't mean you can't learn more from the upcoming live letter scheduled for July 22nd at 7:00 a.m. EDT. Yes, you'll have to be up a little bit...

A sand slinger will soon be summoned to slay some suckers in Warframe, which is good news for players but bad news for me since the game's title utterly dashed my alliterative lede on the rocks. Regardless, a Prime version of Inaros is coming, arriving to every platform the action MMO calls home on Tuesday, July 14th. As one would...

How do you make Massively OP's MJ happily farm an instance? AQ3D knows: You put a pet in there! The Nature Guardian Tower has a 5-man challenge, and the rare reward is the nature wips. MJ really wants that wisp, so she's willing to run the dungeons a few (lots of) times to try to get it. Will RNG...

Despite Star Citizen being in an alpha state, there's still enough in-game content for people to try to make machinima. That's just what one group of players did, cobbling together some recorded footage from within the game to release Parasite: Battle for ArcCorp. The machinima comes from a collaborative effort of several players and tells the story of a... well,...

Last week, I wrote about how the recent tamer changes in Black Desert resulted in a write-in campaign. Ever since then, I've had game balance on my mind. Class balance has always been an interest of mine, and Black Desert's been a fascinating case study on the challenges of graceful game balance. See, this MMO has always had an issue...

We all know that the Wonderverse update coming to DC Universe Online in August is mostly going to be about Wonder Woman but that's not all that's arriving with the update. There are also plans for three more additions to the Artifacts pool, and the devs are seeking player feedback. The Artifacts in question are (unsurprisingly) Wonder Woman-themed. The Purple...

Updates and pics are at the bottom of this post! Welcome back to Eliot liveblogging about Blizzard events. Like you, I thought we were done with this with BlizzCon being cancelled, but the World of Warcraft team decided to host a Twitch stream with what is promised to be significant information about Shadowlands. And, metrics and the algorithm being what...

April's EVE Fanfest won't be the only EVE Online live event that will succumb to COVID-19, unfortunately: CCP Games announced today that it will also cancel the September San Diego EVE event as well as all events in 2021. "Due to the ongoing global circumstances surrounding the spread of COVID-19, we have decided to cancel the official EVE event in...

Writers and geeks alike can't seem to get enough of time travel -- and neither can I! Back in 2017, I wrote a list of time traveling adventures in MMOs, but that only scratched the surface. So why not a follow-up? When you think about it, the proliferation of time travel quests makes a lot of sense from a developer viewpoint....

Black Desert is a game of two parts for me: wondering what skills to use and trying to muddle through its weird UI, and making sure my character looks impossibly good. Both of those things are about to get a little bit more improvement thanks to this week's update, which has added the updated Skill Window and some sweet...