Massively Overpowered

You might be thinking that we're a little early to be doing this sort of thing, and you wouldn't be entirely wrong; normally I wouldn't be talking about these sorts of storylines in review until we hit the end-of-expansion lull, and I'll probably still brush up against this again then. But right now Final Fantasy XIV is moving a little...

Legal moves are being made against the practice of lootbox monetization against one of the largest targets possible. A class action complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Apple is claiming that the company is complicit in promoting gambling by selling games on its App Store that have lootboxes -- a violation...

There's been a renewed interest in Elite: Dangerous recently, possibly owing to the upcoming Odyssey expansion as well as the recent Fleet Carriers update in spite of its bugs. In fact, there's been so much interest that the game has hit new concurrency highs. At the time of this writing, Steam Charts shows an all-time peak of over 21K players,...

Torchlight III surprise-launched into early access on Steam this past weekend in the middle of the PC Gaming Show, and it hasn't really gone to plan. Server issues on June 13th were followed by apologies to those who'd shelled out $30 to play early and then maintenance to fix them. By Sunday, Perfect World said it had finally "isolated...

The novel coronavirus is still out there and it's still a problem, and EVE Online players are being tapped to help out thanks to the third phase of the Project Discovery civilian scientist initiative -- the very same one that saw players help map the Human Protein Atlas in 2016 and search for exoplanets in 2017. Project Discovery is working...

Last week, THQ Nordic raised eyebrows when it announced the truly awful name for its rerelease of one of the titles it bought from 38 Studios' shipwreck: Kingdoms of Amalur Rereckoning. Groan, yes, but we're not sorry to see the game salvaged since it had a pretty good reputation. The game, of course - not the studio, which was...

Even with the absence of E3 this June, gaming is doing just fine: This week, MMO players saw the launch of Elite's fleet carriers, ArcheAge's Garden of the Gods, Torchlight III's early access, and No Man's Sky crossplay, plus we got an overview of where Phantasy Star Online 2 is going and when we'll be in New World's beta. Oh,...

Imagine if you logged back into your favourite MMO after a few months away to find that your character's gear was gone or valuable items were missing from the bank. You contact support and tell them that your account has been hacked, only to be politely informed that the game was changed to allow people to steal from your...

While the COVID-19 epidemic has been nine types of awful over the last half-year, video game studios and publishers aren't complaining quite as loud as other people. This might be the fact that the quarantine has driven sales and engagement of games through the roof. According to a new report, Unity "noted a 46 percent increase in daily active users...

The May/June update from The Repopulation is available for fans to read through and it's once more chock full of steady yet incremental progress reports. Of note in this edition is the replacement of most of the game's whiteboxes with art assets, which is thanks to continued layout input by players. The update post also notes a variety of adjustments...