Massively Overpowered

Last week, we were contacted by the purveyor of a new online gaming social media platform called Virtus Gaming. Drew Duncan's his name, and he's got a vision for the broader MMORPG community. "We want to revolutionize the gaming industry," the email began. I'm gonna be honest -- I initially ignored Duncan's email because we've seen so many of these...

One of the downsides to getting into online games on consoles is that you have to worry about whether or not the titles will require a premium membership to access. Happily, No Man's Sky console fans won't be needing a PlayStation Plus subscription to enjoy this buy-to-play title when it releases next month. "PS Plus won’t be a requirement to play...

Last week, Nexon previewed LawBreakers' Enforcer role. This week, it's all about the Assassin. "With her razor-sharp blades, powerful Romerus energy shotgun, and hyper mobility, she can bring death from above, below, or any other direction she pleases," says the studio. "Use the Arc Blade's grapple tech to swing circles around your opponents, disorient them with a Flux Blast,...

Nestled far, far down ARK: Survival Evolved's Community Crunch 57 post is a little gem for anyone who is curious about the upcoming Primitive+ mod. Devs have taken a moment to define this upcoming total conversion mod to let players in on some of the goodies that await them. Basically, primitive here means no electricity. That means no AC...

Speculating about the next Final Fantasy XIV expansion is something that I engage in quite a bit, but the fact is that there's an area of the expansion that I don't tend to speculate about a great deal. In fact, I don't see many people speculating about it. We'll all talk about where the expansion will be set, we...

The anniversary event for Skyforge has been running for a little while and is scheduled to come to an end very soon on July 27th. But there's one last bit of celebration to be had in the form of an anniversary trailer recapping the game's post-launch history. One year and eight expansions later, how have players been enjoying the...

Here's our near-daily smorgasbord of inane Pokemon Go stories. I'm sorry. Two kids from Alberta, Canada, crossed the border into the US state of Montana Thursday night in pursuit of -- you guessed it -- Pokemon. Border Patrol agents picked them up and returned them to their mom, having determined the kids were unaware they had unintentionally illegally disembarked...

Now that Black Desert Online has landed in North America and is humming along nicely, it's sometimes easy to forget that the game has several more updates waiting in the wings. The Korean version of the game just recently had a major patch which brings in a new continent to explore, along with changes to underwater combat, sea monsters,...

Put yourself in the shoes of a developer and ask: How long should a day/night cycle be? What about the seasons? What if those decisions impacted guild raiding, trade, survival, and farming? These questions are part of a tangled web of design decisions that the Chronicles of Elyria team is facing at this stage of the game's development. Currently, the...

Let's be real here. If you purchased BlizzCon 2016 tickets several months back, you weren't doing it for the thought of goodies. You were doing so to go to BlizzCon. Any bonus items that you get in real life were just, well, bonuses. But who doesn't like bonus items? So why not check out an early unboxing of the...