Massively Overpowered

After several delays, Shadowrun Chronicles, the rebranded form of what was originally being developed as Shadowrun Online, launched on Steam a month ago. Now, a month out, the studio behind the game is bankrupt. The company has apparently already been assigned a liquidator, which raises serious questions about the future of the game after a month of operation. One of...

Age of Conan fans will soon have a new raid in Dragon's Spine to dive into. Palace of Cetriss, which will have both a Tier 6 progression version and a "friendlier" one for the more casual player, is meant to give a greater challenge and even rival world boss fights for those who are level 80. After the uproar from...

Progress on the revived Otherland project has been running quiet for most of this spring, but now that looks to change. Today, Drago Entertainment announced some of the improvements that it's making to the Tad Williams MMO for its beta build. First of all, Otherland has added in its clan system, with the ability to create guilds, set up a...

You know what sucks about getting old? Apart from the adult diapers and the dying? Yeah, it's the seeing things you love retconned into things that you don't love. That's basically the opposite of fun, and so it goes here lately with me and MMORPGs. Don't get me wrong; I'm still playing them in the hope that they'll dial back...

No, it's not one of Tony Stark's inventions, but that doesn't mean this reactor is any less intriguing. Upon doing some sleuthing, RiftGrate discovered that Trion Worlds has been holding onto a trademark titled "Reactor" from December 2014 and has updated that trademark with "security interests" as recently as last week. So what could Reactor be? As there are no...

As Kickstarter projects successfully funded via the power of nostalgia have proven, gamer loyalty can burn strong even decades after experiencing titles that make such a profound impact. For a subset of players, the Ultima franchise will forever be one of the most influential RPG series in existence, which is why thousands of them have migrated over to Shroud...

What would you do if you could bend reality to serve your will? Probably become a superhero and fight deathmatches against giant gorillas and evil masterminds, right? So you and Symmetra are on the same page then. Today we've got another Overwatch beta video for you, this one showing a match through the eyes of the game's Indian warrior. Symmetra...

Still keeping an eye on hyperrealistic sandbox Black Desert? Last night Daum posted a new trailer for the MMO, this one focusing on the Wizard and Witch classes, which apparently are slightly different gendered versions of the same class. According to Steparu, the class is a nuker that scores a teleport, mana shield, and evasion technique. Ice, lightning, and flame...

What is Project EXA? We don't know at this point; all we know is that it's something Bluehole Studio has been working on since 2014 and it's an intriguing mystery. Rumors swirl about the game being tied to Bluehole's last big project, TERA, but they're nothing but rumors at this point. About all we know is, well, there are a...

Ever since the rumors began that WildStar was about to flip the switch on a new free-to-play business model, I've been pondering whether I'll give it another try. Now that we know for sure the conversion is happening this fall, that decision will soon be upon us all. A lot of disgruntled subbers take this position: If the game wasn't worth...