Massively Overpowered

It's been a long tradition (from before my tenure) to use a black-and-white version of the first picture of the week for the header here at One Shots. It's interesting to me to see how much a screenshot changes when the color is stripped from it; sometimes it becomes more interesting and sometimes you lose the lustre that color...

As a roleplayer, I have a lot of different character types that I've played, lots of different archetypes and the like. However, taking any random one of my characters, there's like an 80% chance that said character is either dual-wielding or using an enormous two-handed weapon in heavy or medium-to-heavy armor. I'm aware of the concept of characters who...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we said goodbye to Descent Underground's fundraising campaign. It was a fond farewell, though, since the sci-fi space shooter reboot topped its $600,000 Kickstarter goal with just over three hours to spare. Also this week, Star Citizen updated us on the progress made in March, showed off a new dev studio, released alpha version 1.1.1, and addressed...

Did you know that World of Tanks is celebrating its launch anniversary this weekend? Yep, it is, and Wargaming is throwing a fourth birthday bash that's ongoing through Monday, April 13 at 7:20 p.m. EDT. Participating players will get bonus XP as well as the opportunity to play anniversary missions and receive discounts in the item mall.

Is NCsoft scaling back its western MMO operations to focus on mobile development? That's the takeaway from reports at VentureBeat and Gamasutra concerning the firm's $5 million investment in Canadian mobile maker This Game Studio. "This is part of our desire to work with some of the best mobile game developers in the world," said NCsoft senior VP Michael Chang. "You...

We're going to tell you this right up front: if you haven't yet done the patch 2.55 story quests and don't want to be spoiled, do not watch the Heavensward trailer past the break. It's very closely tied into the end of Final Fantasy XIV's most recent storyline and reveals more of what players can look forward to in...

What? Massively OP's MJ has another copy of Guild Wars 2 to give away, you say? And this is a deluxe edition? Well hot diggity dog, that's more than enough reason for her to delve deep into the lands of Tyria! Not only that, but there are tons more sights for her to see, vistas to experience, mobs to...

After years of digging into the field of classic MMOs, I know there aren't too many undiscovered titles that haven't been brought to my attention (even if I haven't covered them all yet). But it was a plea on Reddit for a gamer asking for help to remember an older MMO that took place in a "shared dream world" that...

Cloud Imperium had a busy Friday, as the firm released Star Citizen Alpha 1.1.1 to backers and also published a couple of notable blog entries. The first was penned by Chris Roberts and it concerns version numbering. Since the dev team is gearing up to release bigger chunks of Star Citizen beyond the Arena Commander dogfighting module, Roberts says that...

Over the past few years, we've seen developers fall more and more in love with the idea of making faster and smaller updates to their games. Clearly, the reason people are disappointed with a given patch has nothing to do with the content of the patch and how much it adds and everything to do with the speed of...