Massively Overpowered

There are few things in this life that I'm sure about, but one of them is the fact that I can't freaking stand MMO story. I wish devs would stop wasting time and money by shoehorning single-player narratives with cutscenes into multiplayer virtual worlds and instead spend time and money building tools with which players can tell their own stories. Or you...

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine alum Chase Masterson was recently interviewed by Star Trek Online executive producer Steve Ricossa. The actress stopped by Cryptic Studios to talk about bringing Admiral Leeta to STO's Season 11: New Dawn update. Leeta "leads the Terran Empire in an attack against the Badlands and Deep Space Nine," according to a Cryptic press release which...

MassivelyOP's MJ has already poked around a bit in a dev-made adventure in Sword Coast Legends during the head-start. But now that the D&D-style game has launched, she wants to play through the story. What adventures will her little rogue have as she helps guard a traveling caravan on its trek between Neverwinter and Luskan? Tune in live at...

Wargaming's latest press release promises "a tidal wave of content" courtesy of the latest World of Warships update. The 0.5.1 patch adds three new maps -- including the game's first night map -- as well as a new game mode called "zone." In a nutshell, it pits two teams against one another for control of a single giant base...

Development for Elite: Dangerous is moving right along, as evidenced by a recent livestream featuring Frontier founder David Braben that's been summarized on Reddit. The Horizons beta will deploy in two stages, with ships coming in the 1.5 release on November 9th followed by the 2.0 patch on November 24th. Schedule your sick days accordingly. Braben also mentioned NPC wingmates and...

EVE Online launched its Parallax update this week, but CCP isn't done disseminating information. The firm's latest dev blog covers improvements made to the sci-fi sandbox's probe scanner interface, the solar system map, and the directional scanner, so it's probably worth reading if you're one of those galactic explorer types. The probe scanner interface "retains its former functionality," but some things...

I like to fish in MMOs. Which is strange because I don't much like to fish in meatspace. My favorite MMO fishing mechanics were in ArcheAge, which is too bad since you can't do much fishing in ArcheAge without getting stealth ganked by people who enjoy killing defenseless fishermen. Maybe I'll like World of Fishing better. Probably not, since it's free-to-play...

At the risk of being presumptuous, we think it's a fair statement that most people who enjoy playing online games prefer being able to actually log in and play those games. No one likes staring at a maintenance screen and not playing. The team behind Trove knows that the game has had an unexpected amount of recent maintenance downtime,...

So you've been playing MapleStory for a while, but when you convinced your friends to start playing, they all wound up playing on a different world than you play on. Now you're too high-level to start over, but they're all on the Awesome World while you're stuck on Loser World where your only traveling companions are bots and Cletus...

Borderlands Online isn't looking so hot, according to a report filed today by MMO Culture. The blurb says that 2K Games has blown up its Shanghai headquarters and its office in Hangzhou, the former of which was making Borderlands Online under a publishing agreement with Shanda Games. Some 150 layoffs were reported, and rumor has it that 2K axed its...