Massively Overpowered

Following Trion's announcement earlier this week that its cutesy voxel sandbox MMORPG Trove had registered five million players in its first year and that it's headed for a console launch later in 2016, we touched base with Trion CEO Scott Hartsman to get a feel for where Trove sits in the studio's current lineup. Enjoy! Massively OP: Five million registered...

Well, that certainly didn't take long! In just a week, Pokémon GO has overtaken every mobile game in the United States, becoming the biggest title of all time. The game boasts 21 million active users in the country, is present on 10.8% of all Android smartphones, and is seeing players spend more time in it than on Facebook. To feed players' addiction...

You may not care what color your armor is in MMOs as long as you're not creating a garish scene, but rest assured that there are a lot of players out there who want some say in the hues and tones of their outfits. For those people in Elder Scrolls Online, they now have a new costume dye system...

Earlier this week, MOP's Andrew Ross mentioned in his writeup of Guild Wars 2's Out of the Shadows episode that he was disappointed that the revamped Raid on the Capricorn -- now called Revenge of the Capricorn -- would not return to its roots with underwater content, and that disappointment was a result of his love for GW2's waterbound content. Here's...

This week's Massively Overthinking should be a fun one -- and hopefully it'll contrast nicely with the Game Archaeologist column we ran last week, which covered some bizarre launch commercials, trailers, and videos from more classic days of our genre. MOP Patron and Das Tal boss Alexander Zacherl asks, "What's the best trailer ever released for an MMO and why?" Let's have it!...

A Star Citizen backer who says he believes the game is a "scam" now says he's successfully procured a series of refunds for his Kickstarter pledge of $3000. Going by the name Streetroller and invoking everyone's favorite internet warlord, he's posted what he claims is his correspondence with a county district attorney in California, as well as the response letters from...

Move over summer plans, for Kalonline has arrived! OK, maybe we're getting a little carried away here, but we thought you might want to know about the arrival of another MMORPG on Steam. Kalonline, which launched yesterday on the platform, is a Korean title from Inixsoft that boasts of having a hardcore nature while being very light on system requirements. Kalonline is...

Snail Games has a new MMO in the works, and this time the studio is aiming at your mobile device instead of your PC. Chaos Legends is an Asian-themed MMO that incorporates Chinese mythology and a rather elaborate backstory involving demons and war between two nations. While Chaos Legends will have the core MMO features you'd expect, the mobile title...

The summer heat is getting to MassivelyOP's MJ, so she's going to escape into HEX where canyons, deserts, and dusty plains await her. On second though, going back to the refreshing shores and facing the sea hag again is mighty tempting... but the campaign is taking her elsewhere. Tune in live at 5:00 p.m. as MJ battles robots in...

Are flags a fad? Those flapping bits of cloth have seen their day, and at least Landmark is calling an end to their use. A small bugfix patch released today eliminated the need for build site flags, with the same functionality being moved to the site management UI. The changes stemming from this move were made so that players would...