Massively Overpowered

It's been a long time coming: Mansangsoft has been working on a reboot of the sunsetted MMORPG RaiderZ since 2017, with intermittent updates along the way making it clear it was going to retool the game extensively, not just slap it back online. This week, the studio has dropped a development video that gives an overview of the game's...

Dearly beloved players, we are gathered today to celebrate the release of Lord of the Rings Online's Update 27, and with it, a great wedding indeed. For the moment, the war in Middle-earth has quieted. For the moment, all eyes have turned to the future, to hope, and to love. For the moment, there are a billion dailies to...

PUBG's not having a good week: It's been banned in yet another country, this time Pakistan. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority announced the temporary measure following "numerous complaints about Chinese battle royale PUBG wherein it is stated that the game is addictive, wastage of time and poses serious negative impact on physical and psychological health of the Children," in some cases...

The meat and potatoes of Overwatch for most players is officially underway with the launch of Competitive Season 23, and this time around players can look forward to the addition of an open queue mode that allows players to team up using different team compositions beyond the standard 2 tank/2 support/2 DPS option. This new open queue will also...

Ubisoft remains in the spotlight - the bad kind - this week following multiple accounts of abuse by multiple senior devs and execs that have now become public thanks to the courage of the victims. Earlier this week, Ubisoft had suspended two execs, Tommy François and Maxime Béland, for an investigation, as the company circulated memos about a "multidisciplinary...

By now, you're probably aware that Torchlight III's early access was a smidge of a disaster. If it was a rocket launch, it would have exploded sideways into the control tower and dumped toxic fuel all over the environment. But what, exactly, went wrong? Well, there's a short answer to that... and there's a long, rambling, and somewhat insane...

Remember way back in the day when Guild Wars 2 was supposed to get a mobile version? It never did, and whatever mobile toy ArenaNet was working on before the mass layoffs in 2019 is probably toast, but I still think both GW2 and its older sibling - maybe even especially its older sibling - would've worked so well...

It's a holiday weekend in part of the world and the MMOverse, so why not start the celebration early? Neverwinter just started the Celebration of Lliira today, giving Massively OP's MJ the chance to (safely) set off fireworks. There's also the chance of earning a new starry sphere mount! If you prefer a starry panther, or maybe some star-studded...

Earlier this week, Amazon pulled Crucible back into closed beta for some hefty retooling, a move that surprised basically no one. We'd watched the game's depressingly low playerbase since its rollout in May, and as MMO fans first and foremost, we were already aware of Amazon's shaky position in the online space, as it's previously tanked one game, Breakaway,...

Free game alert! Well, free with a membership to a service, so I guess semi-free game alert? Semantics aside, those who are signed up to Xbox Game Pass will be seeing Fallout 76 added to the service's library on July 9th for both console and PC. Naturally, the version will include the Wastelanders update and all of its features. There...