Massively Overpowered

If you're in China, you might not be able to play Pokémon Go right at the moment. You can, however, play City Spirit Go, which allows you to do more or less the same thing in a quickly made knockoff of the core game. It is, accordingly, tearing up the Chinese mobile charts. This might seem silly, but when...

The latest expansion for Aion is now live, allowing players to climb to level 75 and become powerful Archdaevas. Which is a good thing, because Echoes of Eternity is about the biggest possible scuffle for all of the marbles. The Aetheric Field established by Siel is shrinking, and the artifact that could save Atriea might well spell doom for...

As part of its birthday celebration -- oh yeah, and to commemorate its recently announced plan to launch on consoles -- Trove is rolling out a two-week event for its players with sales and bonuses. There's a daily bonus active for both weeks, plus daily login rewards and special golden ticket lootboxes every day day of the event. The...

Have you experienced EverQuest II's Heritage Quests? If not, then you haven't truly experienced EQII! While basically all MMORPGs have level grinds and dungeons, and many have housing and crafting, few can boast a system like HQs. These special story-driven quest lines are epic endeavors, meant to send players on a grand adventure (usually all over the map) in...

Break out the hankies and wave them majestically as one of Marvel Heroes' leads embarks on a one-way journey out of the office. Creative Designer and Community Manager Ryan "Ryolnir" Collins announced to the community that he is moving on from Gazillion after four years with the company. "Though it’s hard to move on, I’m nothing but proud of what we’ve accomplished....

Sooner or later, MMO development teams like to clean house with their classes. It's one of those scary-yet-exciting changes, because such revamps might mean that your class is about to get a lot better -- or that it could be broken after a mob savages it with nerf bats. Neverwinter has targeted the Hunter Ranger for the first of presumably many...

It's a sad and somewhat scary day for fans of Atlantica Online: All three of the game's operators, including Nexon, have announced that they are abandoning the game due to a diminished playerbase. The ray of hope in this situation is that Atlantica's service will be resumed under the guidance of VALOFE, an online and mobile developer. "We've enjoyed our time...

In the annals of MMORPG history, 2016 might well go down as a very odd duck of a year. While on the surface it might not seem like there is a lot happening with big-name IPs, we've already seen an avalanche of activity in regard to MMO crowdfunding, early access, launches, expansions, business model shifts, virtual reality, platform releases,...

If you thought there was a lot of story in the recent Guild Wars 2 living world season 3 reveal, you're not alone. I had been champing at the bit to learn about new features and ask some questions at E3 as revealed on Tuesday, but story ate up most of my time. While a few questions were answered...

Back in March, we reported on the rumored sale of Jagex to Chinese company Shandong Hongda, a company known chiefly for its mining operations. The rumored price was $300 million; at the time, the RuneScape studio told us that it had "entered into a non-exclusive, non-binding arrangement for a potential acquisition" and that it was still "business as usual" for...