Massively Overpowered

Monday's blurb about NCsoft and its AI research was sort of interesting, don't you think? The Korean firm isn't the first MMO company to highlight advances in artificial intelligence, though. Heck, Star Citizen was talking up its AI a year ago. What about you, MOP readers? Do you care about AI advances in your games, or would you prefer that developers...

Remember how hot the vehicular combat genre used to be, especially in the '90s with titles like Twisted Metal? Apart from the short-lived Auto Assault, we haven't seen a big resurrection of this type of gameplay in the MMO space. However, that could be due for a change with the debut of Crossout by Gaijin Entertainment, the same studio behind...

Veines is a pretty nice place to visit in Skyforge. It's a quaint little settlement nestled amidst forests and high cliffs with a beautiful lake, a Reaper of Death infestation, lovely ruins, and plenty of friendly people. Although that second one seems like something that the player characters should probably take care of, seeing as the residents are under...

It seems like it's been a while since Age of Conan last got a major update, but for its anniversary the red carpet has been rolled out once again. Shadow of Vanaheim is new content offering new quests and locations that scale to character level, with new armor pieces and vanity items available through the adventure. You can buy...

With Marvel movies and television shows coming out left and right (and the comics, of course), hitching your game to this hot property is a good way to ensure a prosperous future. And prosperous Marvel Heroes has been doing just that, throwing new heroes, costumes, events, and promotions at players even as more gamers throng to the action RPG. We...

Just because Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade will be primarily a PvP title doesn't mean that it's going to section itself off in tiny little instances. On the contrary, Behaviour Interactive recorded a livestream recently in which the team discussed how it will create an open world over which players can fight and conquer. The main landmass in Eternal Crusade will...

Just when you thought The Repopulation was doomed to be in eternal testing, Above and Beyond Technologies announced that it's releasing. This year. This winter. For real. The studio said that it's targeting a launch window of Q4 2015 for the science fiction sandbox and that the game will be "feature complete" sometime this summer. Speaking of completing the game, The...

Another day, another Reddit drama, although the one swirling around ArcheAge appears to be coming to a middle. In a message titled Transparency is key, and so is freedom of speech, the mods who outlawed pay-to-win discussion on the ArcheAge subreddit earlier this week have now apologized... to those who erroneously thought they were banning accounts. They're not banning you,...

When Guild Wars 2's expansion was announced, most of the questions on our lips were permutations of "What's the new level cap?" and "What new gear will we get?" This expectation of vertical progression is so deeply ingrained in the genre's audience that some players just assumed that ArenaNet would follow in the footsteps of other MMO giants such...

There's no reason to ask about whether or not you're looking forward to World of Warcraft's next major patch; if you're playing the game, you are, and if you're not playing the game, you're kind of not part of the discussion. But are you looking forward to getting yourself some new pets? That's a different question, and it's the...