Massively Overpowered

Your secret dream of becoming a zombie -- yeah, we read your diary -- will get a virtual assist from this month's H1Z1 updates. The survival sandbox is finally making good on plans to gradually turn infected players into zombies. According to the game's early access roadmap, players have two major patches to anticipate in April. The first, arriving on...

Salem might have slipped off of your radar over the past few years. It's a permadeath, open-PvP sandbox that fell into the perpetual beta trap. It also lost its original publisher, which is never a good sign. But no more of that; the game will now officially be launching on June 17th this year. In a Facebook post yesterday, the current...

You can play Guild Wars 2's upcoming expansion PvP mode right now! The Stronghold public beta is today! And then it closes up shop again tomorrow, so if you don't play it today, you're going to have to wait. You should probably do that now if you can. Maybe not if you're at work; your boss probably wouldn't appreciate...

If you thought the first major patch of Warlords of Draenor seemed a bit thin on content, you'll be happier with World of Warcraft's patch 6.2, which is now available on the test server. This patch adds Mythic difficulty for dungeons, a new raid, a new zone, the new Shipyard for garrisons (complete with naval missions), and the conclusion...

Today's Daily Grind comes to us from Kickstarter donor Diskonekted, who asks one of the genre's million-dollar questions: What features or technology from older MMOs are you most surprised to see never expanded upon or commonly implemented into new games? Sidekicking! My goodness. It's a crying shame how few level-bound MMOs have picked up on the brilliance of sidekicking (or mentoring or...

League of Legends finally applied a nerf to controversial champion Nidalee, but players warn that it won't harm her jungling potential. Riot Games has also decided to run this year's World Championship tournament series in Europe and revealed the event venues it will use. Hearthstone's community manager confirmed that modding the game in any way is not allowed and...

Marvel Heroes is cranking up the transmedia synergy by way of a new Daredevil promotion that fits nicely alongside the recently released Netflix television production. Gazillion is currently giving Daredevil players a 50 percent XP boost. Community manager Ryan Collins says that he's also "a bit sturdier" thanks to more powerful unique items and "some small tuning changes." Finally, the firm has...

CCP has published a quick post calling attention to its security and anti-cheat policies in EVE Online. The update is basically a recap of the 52-minute Team Security presentation at this month's fanfest. Highlights include CCP's strict stance on botting and ISK buying, both of which carry temporary bans for first-time offenders and permanent bans for second offenses. The firm...

For many gamers, the hardest ticket to get this year is to November's BlizzCon 2015, as you have to be fast and a little lucky on the draw to snag one when they go on sale. Consider this your heads-up then if you want to make the attempt: BlizzCon tickets are going on sale this week in two batches. The...

We've all known trolls who love to dwell in dank forum posts and shadowy comment sections, ready to spread ill will and spark flame wars just to see the world burn. But what if a tool could be devised to identify such miscreants before they could do much damage? That is one possibility that has arisen from a new Cornell University...