Massively Overpowered

As we approach the first anniversary of City of Heroes' revival on the rogue server circuit, I wanted to take this opportunity to share a testimony with you about how City of Heroes became my personal gateway into the wide world of MMORPGs. It wasn't that I was unaware of MMOs prior to 2004, it's just that they always seemed...

It would appear that the GeForce Now games streaming service has lost another big publisher's support. A very brief post on the GeForce Now forums has announced that Bethesda Softworks' games will also be removed from the service, including Fallout 76 as well as other big titles like Skyrim and Doom. Readers will recall that this is the second major...

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." -Rhett Butler, Gone With The Wind "Hasta la vista, baby." -T-800 ("Uncle Bob"), Terminator 2: Judgement Day "Frankly, my dear Watson, it's elementary." -Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes "I'm not even supposed to be here today!" -Dante Hicks, Spaceballs "Use the Force, Harry." -Jean-Luc Picard, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers "Hasta la vista, my...

I would very much like any and all MMO developers who are reading this to hear me: Please, please make your user interface as configurable as possible. Nothing frustrates me more when I come to a new game and find that I can't resize or move UI elements to fit my preferences. I'm fussy that way. I always thought that...

It was the summer of 2001, dystopian sci-fi was at its apex, and everyone I knew was trying Anarchy Online. And by trying, I mean trying to play through one of the worst launches in MMO history. Anyhow, you might be wondering how this is relevant because it's not summer and we're nowhere near the game's actual anniversary. But we...

Darn it, Crowfall, could you be bothered to have a unifying theme this week? Look, it's good that you're giving out monthly rewards to backers, it's good that you're explaining how race disciplines work. It's even good that you're introducing people to the way to harvest corpses and make new vessels. But there's no unifying narrative to all of this!...

SMITE esports has been going strong for six seasons now, and season seven is looking to make a number of changes to schedules, format, and a host of other things as well, which were touched on in brief on Twitter and elaborated on in a more in-depth podcast roundtable discussion. The new season will feature an eight team league with...

The folks over at MMO Culture have pulled together some new videos of the Korean mobile version of TERA, otherwise known as TERA Hero, which was formerly known as TERA Frontier. Got the name sorted out? Good. Let's get to the gameplay. TERA Hero will apparently be character-based, with 18 different characters players can earn through gameplay and not gacha...

It's been half a hot minute since we last checked in with Portal Knights, so we're rectifying that today. Gamers will recall that the game was originally an online co-op title, but last summer it got a full-blown MMORPG on the side - in China. Big sigh, right? Anyhow, the here-playable version of the game just snagged an update...

That Faerthale gameplay look we were promised has arrived. The new area is the focus of the latest livestream from Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, which offers a look at some of the region's zones as well as another peek at the game's Codex among other features. The stream is a little better than an hour in length, but it...