Massively Overpowered

Lots of clan-related stuff is happening in Wargaming titles this week. In World of Tanks, there's a new clan rating interface, and the devs have tweaked early expedition tasks so that they now have a higher probability of occurring. "Some scenario task prizes have increased," according to a website update. Finally, challengers battles will "now be fought tournament style,...

Crowfall producer Gordon Walton features in a new interview at MOTD Media. If you're a big fan of the crowdfunded PvP MMO, you won't find anything here that you didn't already know. If you're on the outside of the fandom looking in, though, the piece might be worth scanning in order to see what all the buzz is about. Crowfall's design is boiled...

Another week, another reveal of the next elite specialization reveal for Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns. If this new piece of teased concept art is any indication, we're going to soon learn about the Necromancer's elite spec. The Necromancer came up as one of ArenaNet's examples of elite specializations back when the studio first started to talk about Heart...

Last week wasn't the biggest for Shroud of the Avatar, but the game's most recent newsletter does have a couple of points of interest for the burgeoning community. Portalarium announced that it chose 24 fan-nominated names to become official street names in the game, something that the studio said it will do more of in the future. Players will soon...

While out hunting his foe, the skeptical crab, Mo meets new friends!

In response to the heated debate over alleged heavy-handed moderation and undue studio influence on the League of Legends subreddit, a group of players have protested by forming the so-called Riot Free sub. The new sub states that it is "an alternative subreddit for League of Legends where there are no conflicts of interest and no ethical dilemmas." Part of...

So, what's the best group composition for endgame raiding in World of Warcraft? It looks like it's Death Knights. Just a bunch of Blood-spec Death Knights. Sure, you have no healing or DPS, but a group consisting of 10 such Death Knights was able to down Blackhand in Heroic Blackrock Foundry without needing any of those other roles. Have...

This past week, I did what I needed to do before Final Fantasy XIV's expansion Heavensward launches: I finished the main scenario questline on my second character. Considering that she needed to be Dark Knight more or less a month ago, I think this was very necessary and am glad to be done with it. For those of you...

If you're anything like me, you found out that Destiny's second expansion does not actually contain a literal house of wolves and got very sad. No, House of Wolves just contains lots of people who need to be shot by the player characters and a whole lot of story to explain why they need shooting. Oh, and many ways...

Good news if you've purchased or are thinking of purchasing Elite: Dangerous from the game's website: Frontier said that it will be offering Steam keys to all owners, including Kickstarter backers. The studio is also working to connect Steam and Frontier accounts for those who prefer to play through Valve's service. "We know a number of long-time players and backers...