Massively Overpowered

As I'm prepping this column, we're in the middle of a nice early November snowstorm. I'm sort of wondering where fall went and why I'm getting cheated out of wearing yoga pants while sipping pumpkin spice lattes. Oh well, guess it's time for the shovel and salt! But winter isn't all bad, especially when you get those pristine "just snowed"...

It never seemed to me like I had any need of an authenticator for World of Warcraft... until my wife's account got taken. It was a fairly minor thing; she was able to change the password and customer service restored everything in short order, but she and I both promptly got our authenticators as a response. From that point...

This week week in MMO crowdfunding, we've got some sad news from MMO space colonization sim 3001SQ: Development on the game has been halted indefinitely. Gamers will recall that the game went to Kickstarter back in 2016 but was unsuccessful at funding there; it then carried on with production anyway. But a game representative told me this week that...

Now that Massively OP's MJ has her kittens, she needs to build a pen to raise them in. But to do that, she needs to finally expand her treehouse! Luckily she has gathered a chunk of materials and is ready to start the renovation. The big question is, can she ever have enough? Building in a tree can be...

With the first phase of its crowdfunding campaign a success, Valiance Online looks ahead to the next steps for this superhero MMORPG. The creation of the game's map and environment is moving at full tilt thanks to "multiple art contractors" that the team has employed for the purpose. "The entire landscape of San Cielo as well as seven miles of...

Massively OP's MJ has a tech stego and some monkeys, but she really wants her very own enforcer! So far it is the closest thing to a feline she has seen on ARK's new Extinction map. Today the crew will be trying to build a few (finding them doesn't seem to be hard at all!) And accompanying MJ in...

Since its debut on Xbox back in 2001, the Halo franchise has been a massive powerhouse and a mainstay for shooter fans. To date, there have been 13 releases, including spin-offs and repackaging, and at least one new title (Halo Infinite) is on the way. The ongoing saga of Master Chief and his plucky friends taking to the stars to...

Slides may be fun when you're a kid, but they're not something you want to see when you're a multinational games corporation that's operating several online properties. Unfortunately for NCsoft, the company saw its fourth straight decline in sales in a row and a marked dip in net income from the previous quarters. The Q3 2018 earnings report shows...

Create your character with the "Passionate Hatred of Euclidean Geometry" disadvantage; this will prevent you from walking in straight lines, but since you will be side-strafing while jumping the whole time, it won't matter. Use the extra generation points to pump up your mass, then when the tutorial starts up, kill your father with a spoon and run into...

MMORPG holidays are funny events because while we kill ourselves to get thematic costumes, toys, mounts, and other goodies, the second the event is over... so is the holiday. And then we're left with the question of whether or not we should still be rocking a Halloween garb in late November or pushing Christmas fashion into mid-March. I am always...