Massively Overpowered

A friend asked me to come with her guild to run some endgame raid or another. I don't remember what it was. Whatever raid had this guy as an end boss. The only thing I remember about it was that this guy was there, and then I said that everyone should stand back while my Jedi defeated him with...

As one or two people have pointed out, MMOs are multiplayer by their very definition -- and massively so. Yet even if you're in a large crowd, you can still feel very alone. I was reading a post by a blogger in which he was expressing how lonesome he often felt in-game and frustrated by not being able to...

It's been a busy week for the folks at Blizzard. We've gotten a quartet of videos for Overwatch characters showing off early gameplay, and Heroes of the Storm slipped into that fabled open beta state. Then NCsoft goes and makes a big splash by announcing that Blade & Soul is finally coming over here after an enormous delay. I tried...

It's no secret that appropriating cars is a major component of GTA Online; besides giving you a set of wheels for those moments when walking simply isn't the safest option, it's also a way to pad your wallet. As a car lover, MassivelyOP's MJ loves taking various vehicles for a spin. And there are so many awesome cars out...

BioWare community manager Eric Musco posted a brief update on the Star Wars: The Old Republic forums yesterday concerning trolling and win-trading in Season 5 PvP. "Since we started communicating about win-trading and the actions we were going to take, nearly 90% of the previous reports and related win-trading activity have stopped," he wrote. Musco says that BioWare sent out...

A couple of days ago, The Repopulation announced that it was launching in Q4 2015. The dev team also put a new trailer on YouTube, though it escaped my notice at the time. No matter, though, because it's just as interesting on May 22nd as it was on May 20th, as you'll see if you click past the cut. The...

Surely by now you've heard that Blade & Soul is heading west. You probably even read our hands-on impressions from a recent NCsoft event. You may not have seen the inaugural Blade & Soul livestream, though, which is what I'd like to direct your attention to now. The hour-and-20-minute presentation is hosted by NCsoft's Julianne Harty, Mark Hulmes, Omeed Dariani,...

Tychus is now on the nicotine patch. Blizzard has removed the cigar from its depiction of the Starcraft II character in its upcoming Hereoes of the Storm, setting off a minor internet conniption. "We know smoking is bad, everybody does," one Reddit poster wailed. "BUT! It's not Blizzard's job to make sure we don't do it anyway. It's an iconic...

Allods Online is looking to join the not-very-exclusive Steam club by going through the greenlight process. Right now the game is up on Steam Greenlight for a yay/nay decision from the community, after which its fate on the platform will be decided. Allods is hard at work preparing Patch 6.0.1 for release on June 4th. The new update will contain...

Dungeons & Dragons Online is not one of the biggest titles on the market, but it was one of the first major subscription games in the west to make the switch to free-to-play. It's also one of two games based on the original tabletop roleplaying franchise, which makes it a bit of an oddity in that few IPs have...