Massively Overpowered

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...

Star Trek Online is hyping its upcoming Season 11: New Dawn update by giving away item mall stuff. Today's freebie is a ship upgrade token, which Cryptic says is only usable once per account. To claim it, log in before 10:00 a.m. PDT on October 27th, click the C-Store button on the minimap, then navigate to the promotions tab on the...

Fantasy PvP sandbox Gloria Victis is nearing completion on its "massive UI overhaul." A new website update says that final tests have been ongoing for a few days, which means that players can expect new inventory and guild UI elements as well as a new NPC shop interface sometime in the "next few weeks." Inventory space will be expanded via additional...

Are there a million reasons to play Elder Scrolls Online? ZeniMax thinks so, which is why it's come up with a new #MillionReasonsToPlay marketing campaign. The firm is spreading its message across its social and community channels, and it hopes that ESO players will do the same by sharing all the reasons they enjoy Tamriel. "It can be as mundane as relaxing with a...

The developers of Worlds Adrift currently have three types of creature in the game. Yes, just three. If that sounds like a rather small number, it gets better when one realizes that those three creatures are meant to behave in a rational and useful manner, like actual animals looking for food and avoiding harm while exploring the procedural landscape....

Marvel's All-New, All Different initiative is coming to Marvel Heroes. Entertainment Weekly has a new trailer that introduces team-up and character costumes for Spider-Gwen, Jane Foster's Thor, and more. The website says that X-23 and Scarlet Witch will get new costumes that may be purchased, while Carol Danvers' new digs will be freely available to everyone who owns Ms....

Mo learns there's a fate worse than falling through the world: dealing with customer service!

If your Christmas wish list includes adding Aion to your Steam library, you get an early present this year! NCsoft Associate Brand Manager Sean Orlikowski shared with us that the North American version of the PvPvE title will release on Steam this Thursday, October 29th. A platform for keeping all your games together (not to mention screenshots all in...

Every game has stuff in it that's dummied out. There are ideas that the developers brought to a certain point without ever finishing, and that's fine. But Final Fantasy XIV has an entire development line for the game that never went beyond the very early concept stages, a set of planned updates that were unceremoniously canned when the game...

I've had the whole weekend with Heart of Thorns now, and I'm progressing very nicely in both the story and masteries. I've still yet to unlock an elite specialization, but I'm not actively chasing Hero Points at this stage because I'm putting so much effort into event chaining, furthering my personal story, and grinding experience. There's so much to do...