dev diary
First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga prelude, Bound by Blood, now live
It was just two short weeks ago that ArenaNet invited its fans to Seattle for the announcement of the continuation of Guild Wars 2's...
Discord is shutting down its Nitro subber games after one year of operation
After a year of attempting to bring a little something extra to the service in the form of a catalogue of games for purchase...
Smuggler’s Fortune brings the cash shop and the Black Market to Sea of Thieves
It's time to go shopping in Sea of Thieves! The Smuggler's Fortune update has gone live for the piratical sandbox, offering players a couple...
Star Trek Online Awakening is officially live today, starring Discovery’s Anthony Rapp
Star Trek Online Awakening is formally launching on PC today, with Star Trek Discovery's Anthony Rapp's voice and visage at the helm of the...
Torchlight Frontiers’ ninth alpha update will introduce item enchanting and a lucky tree
Luck doesn't grow on trees, except for the world of Torchlight Frontiers. The in-development MMOARPG has shared some features of its next alpha update,...
Ship of Heroes pushes character creator beta to later in 2019, says its toons are more advanced than City of Heroes’
With summer drawing to a close, Heroic Games is barreling ahead on Ship of Heroes' character creation tool beta, which was originally aimed at...
Flameseeker Chronicles: What we saw (and what we didn’t) in Guild Wars 2’s Icebrood Saga announcement event
This past weekend’s announcement of Guild Wars 2’s continuation of the Living World story, entitled The Icebrood Saga, was met with all of the...
Prosperous Universe explains new free-to-play model, vows to avoid microtransactions
So Prosperous Universe has officially gone free-to-play. But why? What makes a commerce-centric MMO open its doors to possible exploitation from free accounts? What...
Mankind Reborn shares new Union City, gameplay improvements, and alpha roadmap
Anyone remember Mankind Reborn? It's a cyberpunk sandbox MMO that looks to be a spiritual successor to the sunsetted Face of Mankind; we touched...
Atlas’s new lead designer admits the MMO has ‘struggled to find its sea legs,’ plots new course
If you put any great measure of weight to Steam user reviews, the fact that Atlas is sitting on mostly negative reviews at the...
DC Universe Online shares plans to adjust weapons and artifacts
The so-called Precision meta needs some work if a dev blog from the folks at DC Universe Online is to be believed. In order...
Aion NA offers a closer look at the new Vandal class
August 21st will see the arrival of the new Vandal class to Aion in North America among other things, but all we really could...
Camelot Unchained continues work to make NPCs behave properly and look good doing it
Last week, the folks at Camelot Unchained were focusing on making sure their NPCs were dolts when it comes to moving around in a...
City of Titans talks about how Momentum and Reserves mechanics change the face of combat
There are two systems being developed for City of Titans that kind of work hand-in-hand with one another, at least in a sense that...
Bungie’s weekly update touches on Destiny 2’s Armor 2.0, cross save, and ‘Dresstiny’
When you look good, you feel good, and no more is that true than playing dress-up with your favorite MMO avatar. The folks at...
Legends of Aria explains the new professions system it launched with Steam early access
Still fresh off its Steam early access launch last week, Legends of Aria has posted a new dev blog all about the Professions system....
Ashes of Creation is revivifying its standalone Apocalypse battle royale mode – on Steam
In November of last year, Ashes of Creation company Intrepid Studios startled both Kickstarter supporters and general MMO watchers by announcing that its battle...
Sandbox MMO Project C solves bugs – and adds one on purpose – in its latest pre-alpha update
Still keeping an eye on Project C? That's the SpatialOS-based open-world persistent sandbox MMO by Darewise, the same company that along with studio Nvizzio struggled...
Sea of Thieves drops Dark Relics update, preps Gamescom showing
Every other day this month can belong to WoW Classic, but today? Today is Sea of Thieves' day and everyone else can step off....
Perfect Ten: Creating the worst MMO ever
Here at Massively Overpowered, we learn about some games, folks. We learn a whole lot about a whole lot of games! We know MMOs....
