Massively Overpowered

If you were planning on playing Skyforge tomorrow morning at 4:00 a.m. EDT, you have a slightly odd schedule. You also won't be able to, as the game is going down for maintenance to apply the Battle of Equals patch. And what does the patch contain? Why, that's what the patch notes reveal! Sure, one of its major features...

You could say that WildStar's recent Heroes Evolved update added a few things to the game. Besides the opportunity for players to buy a level 50 character, the update introduced a number of quality of life improvements, such as making some things account-wide, being able to mail stuff to alts (including alts of the opposing faction!), and the ability...

A new Kotaku interview with Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan has shed new light on the state of Overwatch -- you know, the game everyone played before Pokemon Go eclipsed the sun. The interview focuses heavily on the game's competitive mode, which evolved from a planned pre-made 6v6 matchup to one that allows solo queuing, with rank rewards alotted accordingly, but he...

Single-shard sci-fi sandbox MMORPG Dual Universe has been hard at work since its big reveal and mechanics explanations back at E3, and this week, the devs at Novaquark have another video to show for it -- this one 10 minutes of live uncut gameplay from the pre-alpha build, narrated by the studio's founder, Jean-Christophe Baillie. Novaquark has reiterated that the...

A friend of mine asked me yesterday whether he ought to pick up Guild Wars 2's Heart of Thorns expansion to get access to the living world season kicking off next week. I said yes -- but I told him to hold on to see whether ArenaNet would run a sale first. And he was right to do so! "Starting...

Who else was disappointed by the Star Wars: The Old Republic presentation at Star Wars Celebration over the weekend? I had really hoped that it would be more, but I guess it’s difficult to give too much information about a story-driven expansion when the last expansion hasn’t even finished its story yet. But that doesn’t mean they couldn’t tease...

Kakao is touting its one millionth Black Desert player as it heads to Gamescom later this summer. If you'll be in Cologne for the event, you'll be experiencing " the unreleased Class Awakening system, which enables high level characters to unlock a completely different combat style using incredibly powerful Awakening Weapons. Only just gotten started on your Black Desert Online adventure,...

There's a lot of ground to cover in Lord of the Rings Online. Players have made their ways across large stretches of Middle-Earth, and that can mean that even just sorting all of the places you've been can be a strain by itself. Hence why the developers have made player collections of stable-masters a feature, allowing exploratory players to...

Rare is still feeling out the "emergent world" of Sea of Thieves as the game nears its closed beta testing phase. In an interview with AusGamers, the studio expressed how it's trying to strike a balance between allowing players to be proper pirates without robbing the game of a sense of community and fun. "We wanted a game that wasn’t...

Players who have been eagerly anticipating the console launch of Sword Coast Legends will no longer be able to anticipate that launch. It's happening today, you see. You can't anticipate what is already happening. You can, however, take advantage of this fact to actually play Sword Coast Legends on your PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, which should be a...