Massively Overpowered

"Do anything, craft anything, be anything." That's the promise of The Underground, a 2-D MMO that harkens back to an earlier era of online game visuals and feature sets. While The Underground's look might make you think of the SNES era, its options go well beyond a simple RPG. Players can tame dragons, deck out houses, worship a deity, engage...

There are two types of MMO gamers when it comes to character creation. The first group attempts to craft a character that looks terrific or otherwise interesting. The second group, however, gets an impish grin and then abuses customization options until unholy monstrosities that beg for a merciful death from behind the screen are a result. Pvt Wiggles of YouTube...

Pull up a chair, help yourself to a leftover mince pie, and make yourself comfortable for another edition of Guild Chat, the place in which we gather together to test our brains with some reader's guild issues. No matter the problem, we're sure to come up with some solid advice between us. We'll get straight to it: This time...

How would you World of Warcraft fans like to live on Ashenvale Way in real life? What about moving into a house on Stormwind Avenue, Winterspring Ridge, or Silvermoon Crescent? Believe it or not, you can actually do this if you relocate to Ontario, Canada. A small subdivision outside of Ottawa has several streets named after famous World of Warcraft locations. It...

Today's headlining picture is another debut for One Shots: Funcom's LEGO Minifigures Online. I don't know many people outside of MOP who have even touched this title, so it's cool to see at least one gamer was having fun with the mobile title. "Here's a picture of a wizard fighting a red dragon," reader Weakness wrote. "It's not going to...

One of the things I liked about Star Wars: The Old Republic right from its launch is that it gave players plenty of antagonists to fight. Not just plenty of villains, mind you, but plenty of antagonists. Even if they had no role in the story beyond being a thorn in your side through a particular questing area, you...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, crowdfunding is dead. Just kidding. But a whole lot of you said you're not planning on Kickstarting anything in 2016. We'll see, won't we! This week, Crowfall delivered on its teases and revealed its crows and vessels system for account-based character development. Meanwhile, Pathfinder Online might have a new investor, Project Gorgon delayed its latest patch...

The most recent letter from Armored Warfare's producer specifies that the game is still one with great potential. It's not a negative letter by any means - the team behind the game is very happy with the game thus far, and is looking to satisfy players looking for more PvE and more PvP balance in 2016 - but it's...

Better not scoff at academic research: From Superdata to in-house economists, from feminist theory to Bartle, and from education applications to NASA mapping, science is shaping the video games we play -- and vice versa. Read on for a recap of our best science-related MMO articles from 2015. Don't worry; there won't be a quiz at the end! Want more science with your gaming?...

City of Titans doesn't seem to mind that some of its demo videos came to light over the past month, although the studio said that it's progressed well beyond those now that the team and tech has come together for the City of Heroes spiritual successor. The big reveal of the moment came when the devs posted three screenshots of a...