Massively Overpowered

I've been playing a lot of GTA Online here lately, and while the recently released PC version ups the multiplayer ante over its console counterparts by supporting 30 avatars and a couple of spectators, that's still a far cry from the number that I've arbitrarily assigned as the cutoff for calling something an MMO. I say arbitrarily because of course...

If for some reason you want to play Elder Scrolls Online on a console (I dunno, maybe you hate UI mods and bleeding edge graphics?), you don't have much longer to wait. ZeniMax's themepark MMO officially launches on June 9th. If you're a PlayStation 4 owner, you've got even less time to wait, since the beta starts tomorrow. You'll need...

Do you want more supplemental material to round out your Shroud of the Avatar experience? Do you occasionally walk into your local comic store and flip tables while demanding a Shroud of the Avatar comic? Because if so, that would be insane. It would also be totally unnecessary, as a Shroud of the Avatar comic now exists, and nowhere...

The latest update to Lineage II is pushing beyond all of the its various limitations. Tired of the level cap? It's gone. No, not expanded, just... gone, apparently. Players can also push onward to a new tier of advancement past Noblesse, becoming Exalted and gaining access to new exclusive skills and the like. There are also two new zones,...

Skyforge's third beta test begins today, bringing with it two new PvP zones, a new cave area, and a pair of adventures too. Second-round beta testers are welcomed back to their unwiped characters, but if you haven't gotten to test out those Team Ninja physics in person, then mayhaps you'd like to do so now? We've got 100 beta keys for...

The PvP team at ArenaNet is steadily gearing up for the release of the Heart of Thorns expansion, with the PvP-inclined among the Guild Wars 2 playerbase being treated to a 24-hour open beta Stronghold event last week. I don't know about you lot, but I found the Stronghold open beta experience to be very interesting and perhaps even game-changing...

Club Penguin may not be one of the first games you think about when it comes to virtual worlds, but that's kind of a blind spot; the title has been operating now in the family-friendly market for a decade. Unfortunately, the developers behind the title have taken a bit of a blow now, with Disney reportedly laying off as many...

Former Star Wars Galaxies Creative Director and current Crowfall consultant Raph Koster returned to his blog last night to pen the fourth in his series of SWG retrospectives, this one on the sandbox's living society. To build that society and the diverse people who would populate it, Koster says his team set out to make SWG "care" about player activities by...

This morning's Daily Grind comes to us from an anonymous Kickstarter donor with a deceptively simple question: Which MMO zone is the most relaxing? A lot of people consider dungeons and combat relaxing compared to their real-world daily grinds, but I love my peace and quiet, and sometimes I like to go to places in games that are anything but messy...

The debut of World of Warcraft Tokens into the game's economy has caused quite a stir, particularly after the prices plunged during the first few days. Alt:ernative Chat discussed the economics 101 aspect of the event but ultimately posed a few soul-searching questions for buyers. "Was it worth it?" she asks. "All that time it took to 'make' that money...