Massively Overpowered

Last month, an MOP reader named Swifty replied to our Daily Grind about the last MMO he'd quit by calling out EverQuest II - a game "broken by massive powercreep." That startled me - I hadn't ever considered EverQuest II as a game particularly plagued by powercreep. I always think of it as a game with a lot of top-heaviness,...

Is this the face of a stone-cold killer? Can Massively OP's MJ pass muster to join a brotherhood of assassins? We are going to find out: She just bought The Elder Scrolls Online's Dark Brotherhood DLC during the sale and is ready to dive in and try it out. This, you've got to see! Tune in live at 8:00...

It's a rare MMO player who's never played World of Warcraft, which makes this particular summer an interesting one for the whole genre. Even if you've long since left WoW behind, you're probably idly wondering whether new updates, Classic, and even the expansion likely to be announced at BlizzCon are worth your while. It's hard not to be swept...

All right, we need to have a talk about this practice, folks. You can't keep titling every untitled game project "Project Such-and-such," especially when you don't actually give it anything beyond just a letter. That's not to say that Project A will be terrible or something because it's way too early to tell with nothing more than an early...

The latest balance patch for Heroes of the Storm has arrived, and it starts by making everyone faster. No, really, everyone has gotten a base movement speed increase by 10%, which means that you'll get to and from points more quickly even without various movement buffs. The idea is to make the game feel more snappy to play and...

If you think you can predict what Overwatch will do next with its updates, the latest development update from Jeff Kaplan is here to puncture that image. Guess what? Summer games is coming out, but it's coming out sooner than you predict! How do you like that?! Actually, if you're playing the game you probably like it just fine,...

OK, so maybe Jagex hasn't been sold again, yet. The backstory: Earlier this year, we covered the news that RuneScape developer Jagex was being put up for sale by the Chinese holding company that purchased it back in 2016. The reason, as we noted then, wasn’t that the UK-based Jagex had performed poorly; it was that Shanghai Fukong itself was having...

File this one under are you even kidding me right now: A whole bunch of griefers just got banned from Rainbow Six Siege for abusing chat, although it's not the kind of chat you're probably thinking of. Apparently, it was possible to lag other players by essentially spamming the crap out of their chat window with gazillions of symbols like...

The latest trailer for Monster Hunter: World's Iceborne expansion has just hit the internets, and with it has come no small amount of hype within the game's community. In addition to officially revealing the arrival of blade-tailed big boy Glavenus and two new subspecies -- the lightning-infused Fulgur Anjanath and 100% edgier Ebony Odogaron -- the trailer also teases...

Bless Unleashed's latest closed beta on Xbox One is now officially underway. While preloading for the beta was originally supposed to begin last night, it was postponed until today and should be functional now. The beta is expected to run until 1 p.m. EDT on July 15th, so there's plenty of time to check it out. As we've previously covered,...