Massively Overpowered

I'm still enjoying ARK: Survival Evolved quite a bit, and as such I figured I'd set up a dedicated server for the MassivelyOP community. It's been up for a few days now, but it's largely unexplored since a grand total of five people have ventured onto it as of yet! If you're looking to engage in some dino-themed survival sandbox gameplay, click past the...

As WildStar is preparing to make the grand transition to free-to-play in the west this summer, it's simultaneously making in-roads into Asia with an upcoming Chinese launch. The duties of handling WildStar's China operations will go to Giant Interactive, which has previously handled titles such as Allods Online. Giant will oversee the closed beta test, with plans to begin in...

Let us tell you a story. The story begins with the recent E3 Humble Bundle, through which Wargaming handed out not only access to World of Warships' closed beta test but other goodies including a Russian Murmansk battleship. Initially the ship was supposed to only be for beta testing fun, but Wargaming soon posted on the forums that it would...

Trion Worlds decided to engage in a bit of image-based teasing yesterday, leaving players with nothing more than an image an a tagline. Some eagle-eyed fans have noted that the teaser image does seem to have a counterpart, though: The Ominous Devil Guy from the teaser image is nearly identical to one of the story silhouettes for Korean-born game Devilian...

Happy Friday! Today's Daily Grind question was penned by Kickstarter donor Iain Leishman, and it's exactly the kind of juicy question that makes me want to kick back and chat all day in the comments, getting no work done at all. Darnit. Here it is: Does an MMO need an endgame, or should Guild Wars 2's style of "endgame" be imitated, regardless...

There are more dangers in The Secret World's Orochi Tower than MassivelyOP's Justin and MJ faced during their last trip inside -- more than just experiments gone awry, bunny assassins, and immortal demons. There's the tower itself! Or more precisely, there's the computer that runs the tower: Aimee. And she's a handful to deal with. Tune in live at...

This week's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter donor TheChiHawk, and it's coming from an unusually not-so-massive corner of gamesdom for us: Are there any MMORPGs that employ a Left 4 Dead 2 type of "director feature"? It occurred to me that I still play L4D2 somewhat regularly because it continues to be fun due to the random...

Star Trek Online lead systems designer Phil Zeleski has penned a new dev blog concerning fleet veteran heavy destroyers. These tier six vessels will be added to the game in an upcoming update and may be obtained by players who are 1000-day veteran subscribers or lifetime subscribers. They cost 20,000 fleet credits and one fleet module. They gain 10 percent...

Crowfall has published another installment of its combat chat video dev blog. Featured are designers Thomas Blair and Tully Ackland, who spend nearly six minutes answering combat-related questions from the crowdfunded title's community. Most of the discussion centers on DoT effects, projectiles, and the stamina system. Today's vid is part one of two, with the second part scheduled for next week....

World of Tanks players are quite familiar with their heavy armor -- but what would it feel like to actually be inside those terrifying death machines? Wargaming invites you to find out, as the studio has created virtual reality tours with the help of Google for Tankfest 2015. Google 360's technology allows you to watch the videos as you would...