Massively Overpowered

Given the choice, I am always going to pick a game with stylized graphics over realistic ones. This is for many reasons; it's partly because "realistic" so frequently means "bland and filtered over with brown" and partly because a game with realistic graphics is much more likely to look bad in a decade than one with stylized models. But...

The current lack of siege warfare in Black Desert Online is good news for people who don't like having random jerks besieging their structures and bad news for random jerks who like to besiege structures. The current plan is for the balance of power to shift soon, however, with the siege warfare systems hitting the live game on June...

Considering that Illidan Stormrage is the origin of all of the Demon Hunters double-jumping around in World of Warcraft: Legion you wouldn't be surprised to learn that he's a pretty important lore figure. Blizzard revealed yesterday that the master of preparation himself will be getting a new series of animated shorts to coincide with the release of Legion in...

Funcom knows that its fans have one overriding concern when it comes to the upcoming Conan Exiles: whether or not players will be able to punch camels in the game. It turns out that yes, yes you can. You can punch anything, Mr. or Mrs. Barbarian. This shattering revelation is part of yesterday's AMA. Funcom posted a summary of some...

ArenaNet's Narrative Lead Bobby Stein has hit the Guild Wars 2 forums to address some of the concerns raised this week when a forum mod suggested raids might be a component of the upcoming season of living story, which actually seems to be true, just not entirely in the way players had feared. First, Stein has confirmed that neither the...

Cash shops are pretty much a standard feature in most MMORPGs these days, whether you like them or not. It's always a tricky balancing act for studios to figure out what to sell that won't unbalance the game or rake in accusations of being "pay to win." We bring this up because Age of Conan recently overhauled its item store...

Technically, the U.S. launch of the Warcraft movie is today, but in larger cities there were special showings all week, to say nothing of the premiere Monday night. Western critics are pretty much panning the film, but that hasn't stopped people from madly throwing money at it or prepurchasing tickets for what they're clearly hoping will be a summer blockbuster...

With The Secret World's Museum of the Occult opening next week, MassivelyOP's MJ wants to prepare for it as much as possible. She can't collect lore yet, but she can up her kill count of various creatures in order to qualify for placing more trophies. She just has to decide which wing to focus on first; should she go...

A few weeks ago, Massively OP's Eliot Lefebvre wondered aloud about which MMO has had the best year so far. For this week's Overthinking, I'd like to expand that a bit and ask which games are the biggest and best and most important and influential this year on the whole. Instead of asking our writers to pick one, I'm asking them to...

Players of Skyforge are no strangers to fighting off invasions. There's an invasion of the planet of Aelion every ten minutes or so, after all. But the invasion bearing down on the planet this time is a bit different. The Gorgonides aren't simply coming to the planet in force on their own; they're being led by the empress herself,...