Massively Overpowered

Say you're the developer of an online shooter, but you really want to add something that challenges the players in a world where they can basically solo a raid and are hungry for community activities... like group puzzles they can't just brute-force. Oh, and you want to really incentivize people to do that puzzle, so you you lock a...

To celebrate the third year of Blade & Soul in the west, players are getting the chance to getting some far futuristic-looking costumes and weapons. How do you get them? Anniversary quests! Players will get daily tasks to clear three bosses from a selection of seven, which earns 1-2 anniversary tokens; there are also specific daily quests and other targets...

Last month, Crowfall kicked off the first of its test campaigns, allowing players to play for keeps, as it were, in a game mode where only one of the game's three factions would eventually emerge victorious. Although the folks at Artcraft Entertainment seemed largely pleased with the initial results, they did note that there was some balancing to be...

Back in September we covered the resurrection of Alliance of Valiant Arms as AVA Dog Tag by its original developer, South Korean studio Red Duck. That studio isn't just picking up where former western publisher En Masse left off; it's updated the graphics, re-optimized the title, and worked in business model that purports to avoid pay-to-win mechanics. I was...

Ashes of Creation's new community marketing lead Margaret Krohn is already on Reddit answering player questions on a range of topics from payment plans for Kickstarter pledges (there won't be any) to name reservations. But the big outstanding question right now for the crowdfunded MMORPG is the state of the forums and website, which have been offline since Apocalypse came...

We've known since at least November that Red Dead Online, the in-beta multiplayer component of Red Dead Redemption 2, was due for a battle royale mode at some point. Dataminers leaked out that info roundabout Thanksgiving, and nobody was surprised whatsoever because battle royale is just what online game companies shove in every which way now. Yay. Anyhow, Red Dead's...

So it's beginning to look a lot like the Overwatch fad has faded. It was a crazy couple of years there, but the fact that it's just not making its way back on those Superdata charts and the overall cooling seems to be a sign that the flash is over. And I'm willing to bet that at least some of...

Greetings, heroes of Azeroth! Many MMO and other multiplayer titles mourned the much-missed and many-storied media mogul Stan Lee when he passed away in November 2018. But don't despair, for the developers and designers dreaming of delighting players in World of Warcraft found a way to fix Stan Lee's stupendous spot in the supreme cinematic tradition... because now Stan Lee...

I try to be as authentic as I can be. I believe it makes me more trustworthy as a reporter and reviewer. When a studio presents me with a piece of hype, I try to avoid it. I try not to make a big deal because I know it's just another way for a studio to advertise its next...

Each of Anthem's four Javelins is meant to support a different playstyle, and the Interceptor is for those who feel the need... the need for references to very old movies that existed as thinly veiled military recruitment videos. Or speed. One or the other. The point is that the Interceptor is a speed demon, not just in terms of its movement speed...