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Star Trek Online, Star Citizen, and Elite plan Leonard Nimoy tributes

Justin Olivetti - March 1, 2015 25

While players hold solemn vigils for the late, great Leonard Nimoy, MMO developers are working quickly to place tributes in-game to the actor who...

Crowfund: Crowfall easily passes its fundrasing goal

Justin Olivetti - February 27, 2015 65

Call it Crowfund. In only a few short days, Crowfall has passed its $800,000 crowdfunding goal -- and there looks to be no end...

Guild Wars 2 will implement first-person POV in March

Bree Royce - February 26, 2015 73

File this one under things we didn't see coming: ArenaNet has just announced that it will fulfill a long-running fan request by adding a first-person point-of-view...

Ultima Online is working on a new expansion

Jef Reahard - February 24, 2015 36

Broadsword has today announced that it is working on a new expansion for the classic Ultima Online sandbox. Time of Legends, the devs say in a new...

Crowfall is launching a Kickstarter campaign tomorrow

Bree Royce - February 23, 2015 207

"Throne war simulator" Crowfall has been tick-tocking its way down a 40-day timer for the last, well, 39 days. Now ArtCraft Entertainment has foreshadowed tomorrow's big...

MMO Week in Review: February 22, 2015

Bree Royce - February 22, 2015 27

Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered's Week in Review! Up-and-coming...

EverQuest Next severs ties with Storybricks

Justin Olivetti - February 21, 2015 372

Daybreak continues to trim its asset portfolio, as the former SOE studio has cut loose artificial intelligence software company Storybricks from the EverQuest Next...

Any Kill Bill references you want to make here may or may not be apropos. It's a fine line.

The Daily Grind: Are you optimistic about WildStar’s future?

Eliot Lefebvre - February 20, 2015 291

I'm sure this won't serve as a grand surprise to anyone reading this, but I've been thinking a lot about the future of WildStar...

Yes, you can push people off cliffs in Crowfall

Bree Royce - February 19, 2015 131

The folks behind "throne war simulator" MMORPG Crowfall have released two new archetypes today. The first is the Elven Frostweaver, a ranged DPS reminiscent of...

Guild Wars 2’s Revenant is powered by legends of the past

Justin Olivetti - February 18, 2015 61

Ever since hearing about Guild Wars 2's ninth and newest class at PAX South, we've been dying to know more about the Revenant. Well,...

Minsc and Boo will headline Neverwinter’s sixth expansion

Bree Royce - February 18, 2015 59

Perfect World has just announced that Neverwinter's sixth expansion, Elemental Evil, is set to launch on March 17th. In what PWE is calling the game's...

Crowfall thinks you play games to crush… voxels

Bree Royce - February 17, 2015 119

Crowfall developer ArtCraft Entertainment has announced today that the game will employ the Voxel Farm technology platform. If that name sounds familiar, it's because Voxel...

MMO Week in Review: February 15, 2015

Bree Royce - February 15, 2015 9

Were you too busy gaming this week to pay attention to MMO news? Get caught up every Sunday evening with Massively Overpowered's Week in Review! Daybreak...

Daybreak teams reassure MMO players, deflect DDoS attacks

Jef Reahard - February 14, 2015 95

More assurances are coming your way from Daybreak Games, this time from reps of each of the studio's games. "Absolutely nothing" has changed, according to...