Massively Overpowered

As you've all heard by now, MMO giant Wargaming announced a reboot of the classic game Master of Orion during this year's E3. The company might be known best for its free-to-play war franchises, but it actually started out as a single-player strategy game company with the Massive Assault games, which makes it uniquely equipped to handle this franchise. The original MOO (yes, even the Wargaming team affectionately says "moo"...

In this episode, Larry, Mike, Tina, and Cosmic Engine debate MMO PR blunders, bad cash shops, and drastic patches.

What would you do if someone gave you 143 laptops, an MMO, and an automatic piano? How much trouble could you get into? Square-Enix provided the answer to a question we never thought to ask by creating an "Eorzea Symphony" with said laptops, piano, and Final Fantasy XIV. In the following short video, the team links all of them together...

One of the long-running wish list items for Lord of the Rings Online players has been a cosmetic item system -- something that Turbine previously said was too difficult to implement. However, it looks as though the studio has had a breakthrough on the tech, as it has announced that it will be introducing such a system this summer. Executive...

Skyforge's fourth and final closed beta test begins today, bringing with it two advanced classes, a difficulty toggle, a group finder, and customizable guilds, plus there's the promise of a future open beta now in the planning stages. We've got 1000 beta keys for this round of testing to give out thanks to the fine folks at My.com, Obsidian, and Allods Team;...

One of the questions that I received after my debut Marvel Heroes column was, "Can you explain how to play this game for free?" And sure, I could've been snarky and replied, "You just boot up the game and play without spending money on it," but then I realized that this was asked by one of my friends who...

It isn't all sunshine and daisies for PlanetSide 2, even following yesterday's massive PlayStation 4 launch. For starters, the European servers for all PlayStation versions were taken down soon after the console release due to a technical issue and have yet to be restored. Speaking of Europe, Daybreak said that German law is forcing a fee of about 0.5€ on...

Trove is really leaving beta for real, and to celebrate, the developers want players to break the servers tomorrow. If necessary. Ideally, the servers will handle any load without so much as flinching. But the goal is to have a stress test on June 25th, and if you aren't naturally inclined to flood the game's servers with login efforts...

The kraken? Oh, the kraken in ArcheAge was so last week's terrifying sea foe. Now the fantasy sandbox has a new threat emerging from the deeps: the leviathan. In yesterday's Devouring Depths patch, ArcheAge released the leviathan into the wild. While the creature promises tremendous rewards for those who best it, doing so will require an immense show of naval...

Inclusion has always been a big priority for Guild Wars 2, and that cause has taken another step forward as of yesterday's patch. A character named Sya is in the game now, and if you talk to her briefly, she reveals that you met her before in the Bloodtide Coast, but she was going by her birth name of Symon...