Massively Overpowered

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, John Smedley tweeted a few teasers for his upcoming pixel MMORPG Hero's Song. "We're at 5400 items in our game now. It'll easily be over 10,000 when we're done. Maybe more like 20k," he told his followers. "21 classes too. none of our items are randomly generated . We're taking the time to craft each...

If you were to think of Sega and MMOs, chances are the only thing that would come to mind is the Phantasy Star Online franchise. While those are great games (even though we'll probably never see PSO2 in the west!), there was another MMO that Sega dabbled in during the boom years of the online gaming industry. This game was 10six:...

Revenge is coming! Revenge is coming! Lock up your puppies and your kittens because nothing will be safe when Guild Wars 2 goes on a rampage. Actually, it's just a heads-up for the game's newest scenario, Revenge of the Capricorn. This will be a reworked conquest PvP map teeming with pirates (arrrr) and should be hitting the live servers on July...

You know how your parents would sometimes outright bribe you to do something you were scared of or hated? Don't put it past an MMO to apply the same tactics to a playerbase that's sometimes reluctant to get outside of its comfort zone. To incentivize players to enter into its battlegrounds, WildStar is currently running a Space Chase event that...

Shark week is over, you say? That doesn't matter to MassivelyOP's MJ! The ocean is a dangerous place in ARK, and MJ needs a new shark friend so she can have some aquatic adventures -- and survive! Since the server reset, she doesn't have any of the scuba equipment or dinos to make the waters safer. That's where creativity...

The World of Warcraft site has gone through a number of changes and overhauls over the years, so don't act too surprised to see Blizzard doing it once again. The studio will be rolling out the newest version of the website on July 26th, although you can get a preview of what it will look like right now. "Consider it...

Hello, readers. Let's get these out of the way. Airline food is prepared in a way that it can be heated swiftly with minimal facilities, thus meaning that it often tastes odd and sub-par, as it can't be prepared fresh. ATM components are mass-produced, including keypads, hence why drive-through ATMs still have braille for the visually impaired. We drive...

I always have the loftiest of intentions to dig into MMOs I've never played before, going so far as to load a slew of them onto my hard drive for that mythological evening when I get adventurous and explore them. Then, of course, I keep going back to my familiar "comfort" MMOs because learning new games is, like, hard and...

The doors are open for Das Tal's summer test, and the result has been good and bad. Good because a lot of people want to play, naturally, but bad because there have been some server issues and associated bugs. The team is hard at work on making sure players can jump in and enjoy the game, with a small...

When Albion Online's final beta kicks off on August 1st, players are going to deal with Artifacts. They're the most powerful items in the game, the sort of equipment that people tell stories about, and they're explained in depth in a video just below. Each Artifact comes with important stats and spells embedded therein, making them major increases to...