character creation
The MOP Up: Tera’s expansion launches in Europe (November 22, 2015)
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...
WoW preps patch 6.2.3, teases Gnome Hunters
Ready to timewalk back to the days of World of Warcraft's third expansion? Or are you just looking forward to being able to use...
Martial arts MMO Moonlight Blade is freaking gorgeous
So, Moonlight Blade looks pretty awesome. How do I know? Well, because Steparu has thrown a couple of the game's G-Star videos up on...
The Game Archaeologist: The PLATO MMOs
In tracing the history and pre-history of MMORPGs in this column, we've spent a lot of time outside of the 2000s and into the...
Battle Bards podcast listens to MMO character creation music
Battle Bards, the world’s first and only MMO music podcast, returns to listen to the oft-neglected character creation themes. What music do composers create for...
EVE Evolved: Could achievements save EVE’s new player experience?
EVE Online has always been a very long-term game, with players setting goals that often take months to achieve and forming friendships over the...
Happy Halloween from TERA! Who wants a ‘Lost Isle’ promo key? [All gone, thanks!]
TERA is one of those rare MMORPGs that seems to do better the longer it runs, and today, it's celebrating Halloween in a big...
TERA replaces new player zone, offers returning vets a helping hand
How do you feel when your MMO completely redoes its newbie experience? That's a question that TERA players are going to have to ask themselves when...
WildStar struggles with lag, bugs after F2P conversion [Updated]
It's been a long and stressful day-and-a-half for both WildStar players and Carbine, as the game's free-to-play patch resulted in horrendous lag, lengthy queues,...
The Stream Team: Diving into Devilian
Do you want to see what Devilian's alpha is like? You're in luck: MassivelyOP's MJ is heading in to check out this new fantasy...
The Stream Team: Peeking behind WildStar’s beta doors
MassivelyOP's MJ was all set to sneak you behind WildStar's closed beta doors to give you a peek at what's going on for the...
Chronicles of Elyria dev blog: Aging, offline leveling, and the business model
Announced earlier this year, Chronicles of Elyria is a startup sandbox in a sea of such sandboxes, but some of its features are rare even...
WildStar plans quality-of-life improvements, midnight relaunch
WildStar's massive free-to-play transition and patch is less than a week away, which means that Carbine is getting to the end of its revelations. Today...
MMO Burnout: Star Wars Uprising
When I heard that Disney's first foray into the new Star Wars gaming universe was a mobile-only RPG, it made me sort of angry....
BLESS shows off character customization in video
Fans of robust character generators will appreciate the range of customization available in BLESS. With the final Korean closed beta less than two weeks...
SkySaga’s latest alpha patch adds playable monkeys and a dinosaur zone
Alpha 5 for SkySaga has landed -- and the monkeys have hit the fan.
Playable monkey characters are only the surface for this massive game...
Valiance teases its character creation progress
In-development superhero MMO Valiance Online updated its website today with a few pics showing off its character creation system. The textual description refers to the...
WildStar’s changing its tutorial and character creation
WildStar lead designer Brianna Schneider has penned a lengthy dev blog examining the title's early game improvements. The impending free-to-play conversion will feature a...
Gamescom 2015: WildStar F2P beta is now live!
The announcement that WildStar developers Carbine Studios plan to make the MMO the latest addition to our ever-growing free-to-play piles happened a while ago...
Saga of Lucimia posts character creation video on Twitch
The Saga of Lucimia promises to be a sandbox MMO with absolutely no solo content. None whatsoever. And it's aiming to accomplish this with...
