Massively Overpowered

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...

I spent a ridiculous amount of time playing Blade & Soul just moving around. Most of the time in a given game, I'm moving around because I'm trying to explore the game world I'm inhabiting. But during my hands-on with the western port of the game at this week's NCsoft press event in California, I found that what drove me to...

There are certain phrases you never really expect to come up over the course of a work day, and boy, "Nexon steals artwork from Blizzard" is high on that list. But it did indeed happen, by all appearances. A promo image from the most recent update to Mabinogi Heroes - known in these parts as Vindictus - featured an...

Do you like people who cheat in online games? Daybreak president John Smedley does not. After 24,837 H1Z1 accounts were banned for cheating (7,000 of them esp hackers banned just in the in the last few days), Smedley took to Twitter to discuss exactly what he thinks about cheaters. In his own words: "You think we don't know these...

While it could have been worse, Funcom's Q1 2015 financials could have been a heck of a lot better, too. In yesterday's financial report, the company announced that its revenues dropped $144,000 from the previous quarter, bringing in $2.77M since the start of the year. Its main money makers are still Age of Conan and The Secret World. However, not...

Remember when comic books had little call-outs on the front cover proudly proclaiming that something happened because the readers requested it? I always thought those were kind of hilarious. "Because you demanded it, here's the latest issue of a comic that absolutely must have been scripted and planned out months in advance, thereby completely putting the lie to the idea that...

I am so not ashamed to admit that, hands-down, Squirrel Girl is my favorite Marvel Heroes character. Not only is she voiced by Tara Strong, but she's oozing in peppy cute attitude. Bushy tail? Funny quotes? Faithful squirrel companions with bows and goggles? Oh, she's got all of that in spades. Yes, I am drawn to cute things in MMOs....

Late last month, the classic Guild Wars transcended its 10th birthday and prompted a flood of nostalgic posts and shared stories. A few MMO bloggers tore their attention away from the current crop of games to talk about what they loved about their initial foray into Tyria. "Not only did GW1 revitalize MMOs in general for me, but it gave...

Sony is apparently ramping up development on its Project Morpheus VR headset, which was announced in early 2014. According to a job posting, the firm seeks game designers, character animators, and level designers who would like an "exciting and rare opportunity to join an ambitious new studio to create original games for PlayStation's VR platform." Development will take place at...

Wargaming has published a dev blog on World of Warplanes' new war caches, which are basically an opportunity for players to finish challenging missions and earn new equipment, consumables, and warbird decorations. The missions are "quite complicated and will require both a lot of skill and a lot of luck," which is why Wargaming has tabbed its localization integrator --...