Massively Overpowered

One thing is for certain: Tahm Kench is not going to be winning any beauty contests in League of Legends. Fortunately, abilities matter more than looks for this fishy river devil. The MOBA's newest challenge is a solid tanking beast who uses his tongue to lash out at enemy targets. He can also swallow most anything and anyone in the...

Daybreak CEO John Smedley generated a lot of press yesterday with a series of angry tweets directed at Lizard Squad's Julius Kivimaki. Today, Smedley opened up on Reddit and explained why he's so upset that Kivimaki has apparently skated through the Finnish justice system with a two-year suspended sentence. "He's been involved for years in every kind of terrible thing...

Path of Exile's meaty Awakening content update hits the servers tomorrow, and while the patch will add plenty to the game, there's one thing that it will be taking away: reserved names of long-inactive characters. Grinding Gear said that it will be freeing up names from characters that haven't been touched or played in a while. While the number of...

It's hard to love a game when you don't know what's going on behind the scenes, and it's frequently possible to feel as if nothing is happening simply because you aren't hearing about it. APB: Reloaded players took to the forums to express a dissatisfaction with the game's pace of updates (or lack thereof) and communication, and the game's...

Well, there's at least one game developer who hasn't sold his soul to F2P. That would be Markus "Notch" Persson, otherwise known as the creator of the best-selling PC game of all time (Minecraft) and lesser known for his early involvement with MMO sandbox Wurm Online. Persson, responding to a troll tweet from Duke Nukem 3D developer George Broussard that equated anti-F2P...

This autumn's Knights of the Fallen Empire won't be shaking up just the narrative foundation of Star Wars: The Old Republic but its group content as well. A new developer diary posted today outlines all of the changes and improvements that BioWare is planning for instances when the expansion hits. Story mode flashpoints will get a solo mode and be...

Confused over Echo of Soul's nebulous launch status? Fortunately, it's going to be a lot more clear-cut going forward, as the fantasy MMO has left its non-wipe state open beta to officially release as of the beginning of this month. The launch comes right around a major content patch for Echo of Soul that adds in two additional dungeons and...

Trion's voxelbox Trove leaps from open beta to formal launch today, putting that extra server capacity Trion prepped last month to good use. "At launch, Trove features 9 playable classes; challenging procedurally generated dungeons, landscapes, and lairs; a limitless supply of loot; and a deep crafting system," Trion says in its press release, touting the creation system in particular. "Since open...

As testing proceeds for Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns, PvP players will undoubtedly be interested in getting some time in with the brand-new desert borderlands map. This WvW map will replace the old borderlands maps and offer a tighter, more exciting experience. So do you want to see it? One tester has stitched together a bird's eye view of...

Back in my World of Warcraft and RIFT days, I spent an awful lot of time in dungeon runs as a healer. I even still function as a flashpoint medic in Star Wars: The Old Republic when our healer isn't pulling his or her weight. It wasn't that I sought out healing roles to begin with, but that my...