Massively Overpowered

Earlier this year, Kotaku ran a piece on how to make your favorite games feel new again once they've gotten a bit stale. Since Kotaku cover lots of games, its suggestions included things that don't necessarily apply to most MMOs, like running without a minimap or refusing to level up, but there are also some widely applicable ideas like challenging yourself to a...

Skyforge's devs are streamlining the pantheon recruitment process following the game's Journey of the Divine update. A new academy building will become available for adding to strongholds, and it acts as a "pantheon within the pantheon," according to latest Skyforge dev blog. As players progress in a given academy, they receive bonuses and may access special missions for adepts. Upon...

Justin and Tina team up for a special Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns podcast episode.

Is this a new golden age for space sims? Could be, what with Elite: Dangerous, Star Citizen, and seemingly dozens of other high-profile projects springing up on Kickstarter in recent years. The latest such is Infinity: Battlescape, an ambitious and long-in-development space shooter from I-Novae Studios that boasts a procedurally generated universe, seamless transitions from space to planets, and...

Studio Wildcard has added a new dino to ARK: Survival Evolved. Finding, hunting, and taming the giganotosaurus requires top-of-the-line gear and skills, and it represents a late-game challenge for elite players and raiding tribes, according to Wildcard's press release. Fighting the new beast is not for the feint of heart, as its rage grows with each hit it takes, and...

Sword Coast Legends is not without some muscle in the soundtrack department, as the game was scored by industry legend Inon Zur. And today the soundtrack is available to purchase on both iTunes and Amazon, although players who purchased one of the deluxe versions of the game will receive it for free. Zur said that the soundtrack is steeped in...

Do you like EVE Online? Do you like charts and graphs? If you answered yes to both of those questions, the latest CCP dev blog is for you. It's all about the game's economy, and it's basically a recap of and an expansion on information that was revealed at EVE Vegas and that has rarely been made public before. CCP...

It's the bloodiest (and blockiest) knight you'll ever see in an MMO: the Revenant. Trove announced its newest class in a post today, saying that the Revenant will be a heavy plate-wearing class that uses both spears and its own blood as weapons. Aw, how adorable. The class uses spirit attacks that draw from its own health pool and can...

It's go time tomorrow: BlizzCon is almost here, and I'm going to be liveblogging my way through most of the event. And boy, it's coming at an interesting time, what with the game officially declaring that it will no longer announce subscription numbers in the same year that the game has lost about 45% of its subscriber base. I could write a...

Sci-fi MMORPG Otherland most recently made blog headlines when it denied accusations that it solicited or purchased what appear to be suspicious reviews on Steam. So how would you like a chance to play the game yourself, for free, and form your own opinion? Drago Entertainment has given us 50 Steam keys that unlock the $19.99 standard edition of Otherland on...