Massively Overpowered

Wondering why the Land of Britain developers have gone quiet? Probably not, as we hadn't covered the title before today. Regardless, we have an answer to that question, as the game has apparently been swapping to Unreal Engine 4 and has a few new screenshots for fans to look at. They're all in the gallery, naturally. The conversion to a...

The team behind Star Wars: The Old Republic posted a single image with a simple hashtag: #FallenEmpire. No further explanation or extrapolation was offered. You can check out the image yourself on the official site at a higher resolution than what's here (and with no cropping), but that doesn't answer the question - what are we looking at here? Speculation...

Let's try to walk through this particular sequence of events; it isn't pretty. EverQuest puts a new patch update on the test servers with some minor but important shifts to how the game plays. That's a good thing, naturally. Then someone takes a peek at the in-game cash shop and notices that the items there are... cheap. Too cheap....

Last week, Firefly Online announced that it had scooped up almost all of the old Firefly cast members to voice the multiplatform online-but-not-really-an-MMO. Cue internet nerdgasm! I am impressed that the game is managing to dodge so many of the usual problems of IP-driven games; you're playing not Mal or Zoe but a pale imitation of them as the captain...

It's been a big week for competitive play in MOBAs. League of Legends opened the registration on its European Battlegrounds tournament and lifted the restrictions on item gifting. S2 Games' new casual MOBA Strife has now launched for free on Steam's Early Access programme, while the developer's original MOBA, Heroes of Newerth, has released a set of 8-bit themed skins in...

Goblinworks rolled version seven of Pathfinder Online's early enrollment out to backers last week. The update adds holdings and outposts, though CEO Ryan Dancey says that they will be "iterated substantially" with new features and polish over the next couple of early access revisions. Version seven also tweaks targeting, crafting times, resource replenishment, ranged attacks, monster hit points, and more.

Steam has knocked 66% off The Secret World's asking price. Funcom's spooky modern-day horror thriller is currently $10.19 on Valve's storefront through April 27th. Alternatively, you can pick up The Secret World: Massive Edition for 60% off ($23.99) and you'll receive the full base game as well as issue five, six, and seven.

Do you like Guild Wars 2? Do you like PvP? If you answered yes and yes, the fact that ArenaNet has announced its third Tournament of Legends PvP event may interest you. Or it may not, in which case you can safely skip the remainder of this post. The tourney is open to players of all skill levels and it features five-person...

Raph Koster isn't done talking about Star Wars Galaxies yet, and that's good news for fans, aspiring designers, or really anyone who realizes that MMORPGs can do more. Koster's latest blog post focuses on Galaxies' dynamic world, which he describes as ahead of its time given its detail, complexity, and the fact that DVD drives weren't widespread when the title shipped in...

TERA is adding the Gunner class in its May 5th patch. The fantasy MMO is also arriving on Steam that same day. The Gunner is a ranged DPS archetype that makes use of AoE attacks, arc cannons, and summoned constructs. The Gunner is not playable by all of TERA's races and genders. You'll need to be a female Castanic or...