Massively Overpowered

Whether your opinions on World of Warcraft are positive or negative, you can't deny that reaching 11 years of operation is quite the accomplishment. The game is celebrating the achievement with presents for the players, as usual with an 11% buff to experience from quests and enemies for all players, along with a variety of toys like an inflatable...

If you ask old-school Star Wars Galaxies fans about the original implementation of Jedi in the classic version of the game, you're likely to get an earful back. And for every person who insists that Jedi turned the entire game on its head by making everyone grind holocrons and change their skill sets to skills they didn't actually want to play, you'll find...

Even though Storm was the first character for MassivelyOP's MJ in Marvel Heroes, she still isn't max level! It's not MJ's fault: There are just too many interesting heroes -- and villains -- to choose from. But she is determined to get Storm to 60, and what better time than during Monday Midtown Madness. Tune in live at 9:00...

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...

Have you ever wanted to tweak your ship fittings outside of EVE Online's client? If so, the latest CCP dev blog is worth reading. It talks about a recent update to the CREST API that allows third-party apps (like killboards and fitting applications) to save fits to your EVE character. The blog offers a few examples using Fleet-Up, Pyfa,...

Lost Ark is indeed heading to China, a fact announced at Tencent Games Carnival 2015. Besides debuting a new trailer, representatives from Smilegate and Tencent Games took to the stage to answer a few questions from media about testing time-frames, other platforms, and more. Testing for Lost Ark is currently anticipated to start in early 2016 in Korea and mid-year...

Black Desert's Sorceress is getting some love this week, thanks a new face template work-in-progress that was appropriately posted to the game's Facebook page. The Sorceress' weapon awakening was also teased, with what to looks to be some sort of giant scythe thing available to players who achieve level 56. Black Desert Foundry has a list of associated skills and some...

Hi-Rez wants you to know that it isn't a typical development studio, and as a result, its team shooter Paladins won't be going through a typical beta testing process when its closed beta begins tomorrow. In a new dev blog, the studio posted 10 principles that outlines how Hi-Rez typically develops and tests its games (including the upcoming Paladins). Among...

Elder Scrolls Online is getting a series of small patches this week, according to the notes on ZeniMax's official forums. The 2.2.6 update fixes various Orsinium issues, "general combat and gameplay," and longer-than-normal load screen times. ZeniMax also says that it will reset all leaderboards. The Orsinium DLC "game pack and base-game patch" are coming to Elder Scrolls Online's console...

Space sim Infinity: Battlescape has three days left on its Kickstarter, so you may want to consider chipping in if you've got a hankering for seamless interplanetary warfare, orbital bombardments, and space battles featuring hundreds of players. Infinity also boasts Newtonian physics and a flight model that makes each planet's atmosphere "a unique experience based on drag, thrust-to-weight ratio, atmospheric...