Massively Overpowered

Each week Massively OP's MJ and the Minions get a few steps closer to their EverQuest II goal: completing all Nektropos Castle Heritage Quest steps at the very same time! There are just three undead standing in the way for Restoring Ghoulbane, and War and Wardrobe only needs two tasks finished. Could this be the stream they wrap everything...

Elite Lord of Alliance, or ELOA if you'd prefer, has begun its initial beta test. Webzen sent out a press release earlier today that touts the hack-and-slash game's "triple battle stance system." The system apparently allows players of each class to switch between three stances in real time and thus make use of 24 skills per stance to solve...

Wow, so, where to start with this week's Stick and Rudder? I guess I picked the wrong time for a vacation, and shame on me for forgetting the CitizenCon date! In any case, Star Citizen acquitted itself pretty well last weekend by most accounts, and whether we're talking about Squadron 42's A-list cast reveal, our first real look inside...

Give players a wide range of player housing tools and you're going to get some interesting results. Perhaps one of the most fascinating creations you'll see all week is an "impossible maze" created on one of WildStar's housing plots by player IDestina. Why is it impossible? It's a two-story gigantic maze that happens to be made out of translucent glass...

Justin and Bree fête Ascent's James Hicks discussing Star Citizen, Wurm Online, Ultima Online, WildStar, Daybreak's mystery game, Elite: Dangerous, RIFT, and Funcom.

A mystery box arrived on my porch today containing a cryptic message... ... and a tree. Unfortunately for this lovely tree, I don't have my Sylvari's green thumb. Fortunately for me, this tree has exactly zero... ahem... thorns. So thanks, ArenaNet! Be-leaf me, I'll try not to let it die before launch. So who's hyped for Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns!?

BlizzCon 2015 is less than a month away, and fans of World of Warcraft, Diablo III, Hearthstone, StarCraft II, Overwatch, and Heroes of the Storm have much to look forward to when the convention opens. To help you suss out what might be revealed and what will be discussed during the two-day event, there's the new convention schedule, which covers both...

Anyone reading this column regularly understands that I have a bit of a tiff with ZeniMax because of the way it's handled the leveling process in Elder Scrolls Online. And I honestly don't think the devs are going to really change anything. However, I would like to give credit where credit is due. With the Orsinium DLC, ZeniMax might have captured...

Chapter 2 of Star Wars: The Old Republic has been completed. MJ's Imperial Agent is free from the brainwashing programming of Imperial Intelligence. But a big question remains: Who gave that information to the Republic and why? It doesn't require any amount of brainwashing to get MJ's Agent to do what you would like her to do. When she comes up...

An MMORPG is going to put any set of network architecture under an incredible amount of strain. It's going to dropkick your netcode and force your development team to react quickly to a plethora of issues. So if you want to make it work, eventually you need to bite the bullet, turn on the servers, and let them run...