Massively Overpowered

Good news, Destiny players on the PlayStation with a desire to bypass a good chunk of leveling! You belong to a rather narrow subgroup, but you appear to be the first group able to purchase level boosts on the PSN store for a price. Players first noticed the level boosts on sale for £24.99 on the UK PSN, but...

How well do you fancy yourself a guild leader? If you've ever had a hankering to try it out without all of the drama and llamas that come with actual people, then there's the new guild management simulator for you: It's a Wipe! It's a Wipe! mimics the online game environment by putting you in the position of a guild leader...

Earlier this year, blog Kill Ten Rats wrote about "Harbingers of Failure," a term coined by a quad of marketing researchers to describe people who "systematically purchase new products that" bomb, over and over. "Their early adoption of a new product is a strong signal that a product will fail - the more they buy, the less likely the product...

Online gaming and e-sports are getting bigger by the day, and there are literally hundreds of popular online games out there that don’t really fit into the MMO category. Join me each week for Not So Massively, where I gather together the top stories from the biggest MOBAs, competitive card games, first person shooters, and other popular online games...

Before 2015's hourglass runs out of sand, Turbine promises to get one last big update for Dungeons and Dragons Online out of the door. The developers hopped onto a 50-minute livestream last week to show off this month's upcoming patch. Update 29: The Codex War will revolve around the attempt to reassemble the Codex of the Infinite Planes and control its power....

Say this one ten times fast: Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex - First Assault Online is live today on Steam's early access platform. The EA packs run from $4.99 to $29.99, though there's a steep price cut for the middle tiers right now. Nexon and Neople consider this phase a beta and have asked for feedback; they've also addressed...

Do you enjoy blundering around in your online worlds, encased in darkness with no torch? Good news for you: The latest Shroud of the Avatar newsletter introduces a former palace overrun by kobolds, Holt Fortress, and it's dark. I mean it. I had to boost the lighting on this picture just to see it! Portalarium also included a video montage of the...

Do you love The Secret World and have some disposable income to toss in its direction? Then Funcom's 12 Days of Deals could be the temptation you need to go broke! Starting today, TSW will put one "top-selling" item in the store on sale (excluding issues and sidestories). Today's deal, for example, is... 40% off mystery boxes. OK, maybe...

On the Guild Wars 2 official forums today, ArenaNet's Gaile Gray has outlined a number of balance changes heading to the game, once again shifting the meta and generating salt from the usual suspects. ur strategy for adjusting the meta-game in Guild Wars 2 after the release of Heart of Thorns focuses on releasing balance updates on a set cycle –...

If you're enjoying the current round of testing for Crowfall, we have both good news and bad news for you. The bad news is that it's coming to an end on December 18th, and further bad news is that the next major round of testing is slated for February, which means that it'll be a while before bigger testing...