Massively Overpowered

I just saw Star Citizen's new trailer yesterday, and needless to say I was pretty blown away. Alpha 2.0 is looking good - so good that I may actually have to download it this weekend and break my no-betas rule! It shows off three aspects of Star Citizen's persistent universe gameplay, those being ship combat, first-person shooter combat, and EVA...

ArenaNet's Matt Pennebaker has posted an introduction on Reddit that details his work on Guild Wars 2's legendary weapons and crafting bugs. Pennebaker writes that he and his small team will be fixing legendary crafting bugs including various blockers as well as issues that "encourage toxic play or interactions." No collectible should be gated behind failed events, Pennebaker says,...

With rare exception, creating multiple characters in MMOs is and has always been a standard practice for me. I can't play any single class for long without looking across the fence and thinking to myself, "Hm... I wonder what that plays like? Maybe I'd like it more! Maybe there are different or more efficient ways I could be leveling!" Before...

Have you ever trapped an actual booby? It seems like that would be pretty difficult. I won't get into the hows and whys and instead will direct you to the latest website update from Daybreak's early access survival sandbox H1Z1 for a primer on its booby trap mechanics. The work-in-progress traps will have different debilitating effects on would-be thieves, including...

Not many of you know this because I had no intention of really making a thing out of it, but I have been divorced from Susan for about five years now. Luckily, now I am a writer here and can dredge up our old arguments in article form, thus implicitly making everyone agree with me and disagree with her....

I acknowledge the fact that not every MMO fan is craving for a more portable online gaming experience. There's a lot of wariness out there, especially considering how mobile titles sometimes epitomize the worst aspects of microtransactions and have a much more limited ability for input and screen real estate. Yet I hold out hope that we'll not just see more...

The universe of Star Citizen is getting a bit bigger with the addition of 50,000 testers to its persistent universe. It also has a brand-new trailer if you want to see people getting out of spaceships and faffing about in space suits, which seems like the prelude to the most ridiculous installment of Grand Theft Auto ever. No one...

Following in the reveal footsteps of the second half of Issue #12, the details of The Secret World's Issue #13 Trail of Shadows came by way of the official dev livestream, The Streaming Ones. And that's not a bad thing. I have long loved my dev tours through the newest content -- even though it always meant a spoiler or...

Believe it or not, four years has passed since Star Wars: The Old Republic first brought BioWare's brand of storytelling to the MMO space. Now it's time to make a cake, light some candles, and open gifts in celebration. Gifts? Why, yes. BioWare has several presents for its community on this occasion, starting with four-credit Coruscant and Dromund Kaas strongholds....

Hi-Rez Studios has released as new a video that details Paladins' 0.8 update. Lead designer Rory Newborough says it's a big patch that makes many core changes to gameplay as well as "tweaks to cards and systems." The video also introduces the newest addition to the champion roster, Evie the Winter Witch. She's described as the queen of misdirection and...