Massively Overpowered

Anyone familiar with modern board games will immediately recognize and likely have a positive opinion on Gloomhaven. It is an absolute juggernaut in the tabletop scene. It’s been so successful that now the designer is even following up with a sequel, Frosthaven, which is breaking all kinds of records (including raising almost $13 million on Kickstarter)! If the title of...

He might be busy creating a brand-new virtual world, but legendary game designer Raph Koster always has time to chat about his beloved Star Wars Galaxies. In a series of tweets this past Friday, Koster posted several behind-the-scenes pictures of SWG in development, including an X-Wing from when the game was primarily space-based, procedural generation of planets, and a...

Gosh, remember when it seemed like we... like, actually knew what 2020 was going to look like, or at least in the broad strokes? I certainly do; I wrote an entire column predicting Final Fantasy XIV's next year, and then we wound up tumbling into a nonstop viral hellscape exacerbated by people assuming that after a month the virus...

It brought us memes, it brought us Necromancers, it brought us farming for loot, and it theoretically brought us a showdown against evil creatures once more. Diablo II was a pretty significant game when it launched, and 20 years later, it's still discussed fondly and has an incalculable impact on similar games and on gaming culture. So naturally Blizzard...

Let's say you're in the New World. You want to make a statement. You want something that says you mean business. Big, smashy, angry business. What you want, possibly, is the hammer, which is the latest weapon being focused on by the game's Twitter account. According to information shared in the tweet thread, hammers are the most powerful melee weapons...

It appears that militias in Legends of Aria are going back to the drawing board. The devs have announced that militias will be temporarily suspended at the end of the current season, with PvP content updates shifting focus to expanded Chaos Zones and Arena Leagues. The militia merchant will remain in Belhaven for anyone who wishes to spend their...

Kickstarted MMORPG Ashes of Creation has previously off Freeholds, the open world housing villas that players can place. That's not the only way that players can earn some personal real estate, however, as housing is a feature in the villages, towns, and cities that spawn from nodes, which was the focus of a livestream this past Friday. The housing in...

A few weeks ago, there was a supremely contentious thread on the MMORPG subreddit, one so contentious that the original poster deleted the thread and his account after being hassled and tone policed in the replies. Its title asserts that "nuking all forms of wikis/guides would actually improve" our genre. "I truly do think the MMO genre has an...

It was a depressing week for online gaming and the extended community: Mixer folded, setting free everyone on the platform, plus a wave of call-outs of awful behavior has seen devs across the industry suspended, multiple big-name streamers booted off Twitch, and even MMO influencers removed from their teams. Ug. Read on to catch up with the very best of...

Sitting at the heart of your colony in Seed is the Kernel, the little structure that kicks off the founding of your settlement. And the earliest version of the Kernel looked very much like an actual seed, just large enough for two people to form the heart of the colony. The latest entry on the official development diary discusses...