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Crowfall devs on stats, emotes, and chat bubbles
Have a spare few minutes in your day to exchange for a little Crowfall enlightenment? Creative Director J. Todd Coleman and Lead Designer Thomas Blair...
World of Warcraft: Legion beta starts this Thursday
Say goodbye to World of Warcraft: Legion's "alpha" phase, boys and girls. Blizzard announced today on a dev stream that the expansion's beta testing...
Worlds Adrift’s deserts aren’t deserted
Don't fall for the mistake of thinking that all deserts are boring and vacant wastelands. In both reality and in the hands of talented...
Betawatch: Chronicles of Elyria racks up the funding (May 6, 2016)
On May 3rd, Chronicles of Elyria started its Kickstarter campaign. On May 4th, the developers were already hitting significant funding milestones. On May 6th,...
Star Citizen’s Around the Verse on Nexus lore and the Javelin escape pod
Cloud Imperium's Sandi Gardiner is joined by Concept Artist Jeremiah Lee for the latest episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse. Gardiner tells watchers...
Crowfall previews the first batch of powers for the Druid
The Druid of Crowfall is not a firehose healer. What does that mean? Well, for one thing, firehouses that die around her stay dead. In...
Conan Exiles gets an official wiki
You still have a while to wait before Conan Exiles releases later this year, but it's not too early to start cramming for the...
Crowfall’s castle siege video is appropriately brutal
Crowfall's latest Siege Perilous footage is brief, but it digs into the flashier parts of castle sieges, with catapults loosing their missiles, explosions knocking...
Story-driven survival game The Wild Eight reaches Kickstarter goal
For some, simply surviving is not enough. Enough players want a story amid the chaos of their survival sandbox games that plot-driven The Wild...
Saga of Lucimia offers a glimpse into the alpha and its world history
There are some MMOs that run pretty quiet during the development process, keeping all of their cards close to the chest. But it seems...
The MOP Up: Allods’ Gibberling Festival (May 1, 2016)
The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...
Betawatch: Shroud of the Avatar prepares for no more wipes
Shroud of the Avatar is into its final countdown as a game without permanence. Sure, the most recent update required a character wipe as...
Chronicles of Elyria embraces ‘earn-to-play’ model
Chronicles of Elyria understands that not everyone can game around the clock, and through a couple of systems the team is striving to make...
Global Chat: What can MMORPG devs do to foster community?
One of the neat aspects of the MMO blogosphere is how writers will often interact and collaborate with each other. Recently, four bloggers ganged...
SkySaga’s alpha 8 phase introduces endgame grouping
Smilegate's voxelbox SkySaga enters its eighth phase of alpha today with a number of new additions, including... endgame. Yes, there's a new tier of...
Shroud of the Avatar makes big changes in Release 29
Shroud of the Avatar is only a few months away from its all-but-in-name summer launch, and as such each patch from here on out...
Albion Online’s Heretics will poach you for your skull if you’re not careful
One of the first groups of PvE enemies that Albion Online adventurers will encounter in the game is the Heretic faction. This is an...
Crowfall reveals the tragic backstory of its trees of life
"In every world and age, storytellers argue the mystery of Gaea’s death. Who is the villain? What was the cause? Every bard sings a...
Eternal Crusade welcomes Unreal Engine 4.11 and shares mo-cap sessions
The next Eternal Crusade patch is preparing to change the game from the inside-out, as the title will upgrade to Unreal Engine 4.11. This...
Exile Online invites you into a dark cyberpunk world
Jonesing for a nice bite of cyberpunk in your MMO diet? Then you might want to keep one augmented eye on Exile Online, an upcoming...
