dev diary
SEED elaborates on how and when it will moderate its community
If you're in a sandbox MMO where people are generally meant to work together and your community draws in a pretty varied number of...
Survival MMO Population Zero previews world design and exploration
Need a break from watching the news in horror? Population Zero's dev diary might do the trick. Developer Enplex Games has a new one...
New World details how players will battle the PvE baddies known as The Corrupted
So, you can't just gank everyone you see in New World anymore. That means there's no sense of danger, right? Yeah, not so much....
Book of Travels’ skills aren’t the same-old, same-old
When you think of skills in MMORPGs, you most likely envision combat abilities. Fighting, after all, is 90% of what MMO design seems to...
Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s Visions of the Past Steel and Fire
Just three short months ago, ArenaNet teased us in its 2020 content preview for Guild Wars 2 with a new type of story content...
New World’s latest video dev diary covers weapons and specializations
If you're eagerly looking forward to New World, you will want to watch the video below. Then you will hear the first words spoken...
Survival sandbox Population Zero outlines its new 168-hour cycle and account progression
You arrive to the wilds of Population Zero. You have seven days to live. Go. That's, in an extremely unrefined nutshell, the basic gameplay...
Daybreak’s new EverQuest and EverQuest II boss Jennifer Chan addresses players in new dev blog
Last week, Daybreak's Holly Longdale stunned players of EverQuest and EverQuest II when she announced she'd be leaving the Daybreak team she's headed up...
PlanetSide 2’s big Escalation update is live as EU server migration is underway
It's finally happening: Escalation is about to go live for eager PlanetSide 2 players.
We've been covering this update since February, when Daybreak and Rogue...
You’re going to have to work to get a home in New World
If you've already called the movers to lug your stuff into New World when it (supposedly) launches this spring, you might want to reschedule....
Guild Wars 2 dev blog teases Steel and Fire’s storyline – and the Eye of the North
ArenaNet has just one week to go before the latest entry in the current Saga, Visions of the Past: Steel and Fire, hits the...
EVE Online makes moons prettier and introduces market order changes in its latest update
EVE Online has kicked out another update which has a couple of features that players have likely already been expecting. If you haven't been...
Minecraftian sandbox MMO Hegemony launched, hit a snag, and delayed even more
After its initial two-week delay, the sandbox MMORPG Hegemony went live this weekend, though not without issues such as instance crashing and database overloading,...
PlanetSide 2’s Escalation is really truly launching, this time on March 11
Back in February, Daybreak and Rogue Planet Games were talking up PlanetSide 2's Escalation update, at one point meant to launch February 19th, then...
Perfect Ten: Pet peeves of doing MMO journalism
In many ways, Massively Overpowered is a dream (side) job for us. We get to write about something we love and have it published...
New World lays out its argument for three-sided PvP
Don't count New World's PvP side down-and-out just yet. Amazon Game Studios made a strong case this past week for why the MMORPG's faction...
The Daily Grind: What does a new MMO have to do to get your attention?
Last week, we reported that Population Zero is gunning for a May launch as a buy-to-play title. While I'm always intrigued by the debut...
Dual Universe shares the tech being used to optimize performance going forward
In a sandbox game with procedural generation and voxel building, there's a lot of moving parts that can very likely bog a player's PC...
Book of Travels’ first dev blog covers multiplayer endeavours
Despite (or perhaps, because of) being a small, quiet title, Book of Travels is one of our most anticipated MMOs for 2020. As they...
OrbusVR offers a peek at the new areas coming with the Mini Story Pack DLC
Just in case you missed January's announcement, the virtual reality MMO OrbusVR is getting its first DLC in the form of the Mini Story...