Massively Overpowered

Let's recap on what's going on with Ashes of Creation, shall we? Just ahead of the holidays, Intrepid rolled out Apocalypse, its battle royale mode, which began life as a test scenario for combat in the MMORPG's alpha but has since become its own standalone free-to-play product, causing much grumping within and without the community worried about the fate...

EVE Online has a long history of incredible cinematics and player-made videos, but that legacy has somewhat fallen by the wayside in recent years. Players still regularly put together PvP compilations and the instructional videos made today are of a much higher quality than those made years ago, but there's something to be said for the cinematic masterpieces of...

MapleStory 2 charmed our previewer, our podcasters, even our writers when it came time for picking out the underdog MMO of 2018, thanks in large part to the deep mechanics and roleplay-friendly systems underpinning the cutesy anime world. Recently we posed multiple questions to Nexon Korea's Miyoung Oh, MapleStory 2's Lead Game Designer, to ask all about one of the...

A week ago, I finally sat down and cleaned out my ancient Ultima Online account, picking up a thousand items from my house and putting them in my characters' inventories and banks in preparation to cancel my sub. That included at least 300 messages-in-bottles, which are the seafarer's version of treasure maps. My fellow podcasters teased me for hoarding,...

We may not be playing Lost Ark in North America just yet, but the game is still humming along with updates during its open beta in its native South Korea, and that includes the brand-new continent of Rohendel. It's big, it's magical, and it features a new race with a name that appears to translate to "Bamboo." Of course, it's...

It's the day before the last patch of the Stormblood series in Final Fantasy XIV... technically. Yes, you can argue (correctly) that we'll actually get more patches in this sequence to fill out this patch, but they don't change the fact that 4.5 is where our second expansion comes to a close. So that's going to dominate our January,...

Wildcard/Grapeshot's sea-faring pirate MMORPG Atlas is gearing up for a massive patch this afternoon, and if you bought in to the early access, you're gonna know what's in it. The good news, at least if you agree with the studio that the whole "being a pirate" part of the game was "a bit more difficult and tedious than it...

Last year, we started a new end-of-the-year tradition: a recap of all the legal and political dramas that have affected the MMO genre over the last 12 months. Notably in 2018, we saw... Criminal cases proceeded against the Call of Duty swatter and accomplices. The Crytek v. Cloud Imperium lawsuit over CryEngine and Star Citizen all but wrapped up. So...

We knew this day was coming: It's time to buckle up for Black Desert's Xbox One debut, as preorders for the game on that platform have opened up as of today, and formal launch has been set for March 4th. That means preorders are open too; packages run from $29.99 to $99.99, with varying levels of headstart access, premium...

Fans of Final Fantasy XIV will have to deal with not playing the game today, as maintenance extends throughout today and into tomorrow. But you can take the time before the release of patch 4.5 to read through the always-extensive patch notes, with the obvious caveat that these are only the notes for the first part of the patch. That includes...