Massively Overpowered

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...

Co-op hasn't been one of Hearthstone's strong suits -- or even in existence -- since the PvP card battler launched. However, this week Blizzard is experimenting with a co-op tavern brawl for the first time that has pairs of friends taking on the Gearmaster Mechazod. So how does co-op work in Hearthstone? At least in this tavern brawl, the enemy will move...

Your Guild Wars 2 client could be getting an upgrade in the near future, particularly if you have the hardware to handle it. ArenaNet Game Director Colin Johanson announced on Reddit today that the studio is testing out a new version of the game: "We are rolling out a beta version of a 64 bit client today if all goes...

With WildStar's Reloaded update over a month old, Carbine is now turning its attention to the next big patch for the game. The new content addition, which is called Enter the Cryo-Plex, will focus its efforts on the MMO's PvP scene. The centerpiece of the update will be the titular Cryo-Plex arena, an Eldan facility that Protostar researched and abandoned....

Action-MMO TERA is getting a brand-new class in its next update: the Brawler. En Masse summarized the class in a press release today: "The brawler packs a serious punch and can go toe-to-toe with the biggest bosses in the game. The new hit counter is the key to the brawler's 'punch and parry' fighting style, making her an incredibly powerful tank....

Don't you love running content in hopes of getting a rare drop that never, ever shows up? If you love that, you will hate the R&D system being introduced in the most recent DC Universe Online game update, which launches today. On the other hand, those of you who like knowing that pure luck is not the sole determinant...

Back in October, Funcom asked its bondholders to defer its debts another year, summoning those holders to a meeting to vote on a proposal that would "provide cash relief to Funcom N.V. in 2015 to allow for sufficient working capital." In light of that, these must be sweet words to read: The bondholders' meeting regarding convertible bond issue number ISIN NO 001...

Hello again friends, and welcome back to Choose My Adventure. November is upon us, and that means two things: It's time for another round of the annual cries of, "Why are all these stores decorating for Christmas when Thanksgiving isn't even over yet!?" and perhaps more relevant to our interests, it's time for a new series of CMA. As...