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PAX East 2017: Naoki Yoshida on Final Fantasy XIV’s new jobs, old jobs, and future patches
It would be fair to say that Final Fantasy XIV fans treat Naoki Yoshida like a rock star, and he carries himself like one:...
EverQuesting: The Domino effect on Daybreak and EverQuest II
Yup, it's true. It was a sad day when Emily Taylor confirmed that she was indeed leaving Daybreak. When John Smedley's tweet popped up...
No Man’s Sky reaches 1M players in its Foundation era
Love it or hate it, No Man's Sky was the buzz around the video game water cooler last year. And while the space exploration...
Blizzard is considering WoW competitive raiding e-sports again
If you were annoyed by the apparent subsumption of World of Warcraft art and lore panels by other games' e-sports at last year's BlizzCon,...
Here’s how that H1Z1 TV broadcast deal went down
Were you scratching your head over last week's announcement that H1Z1 would be bringing its upcoming PvP tournament to the CW network? We were...
Pokemon Go: 650M downloads, update cadence, and Ingress 2.0
There's lots going on with Pokemon Go right now, thanks in part to the official Pokemon Day that kicked off the week. Here's a...
Final Fantasy XIV fans mine out more Stormblood details from Japanese interviews
If you're a Final Fantasy XIV fan, you're used to getting bits and pieces of information based on what has or hasn't been translated...
EVE Online saw big bump in players and profits in 2016
Don't count EVE Online as over and out just yet. The long-running space sandbox reported a remarkably good year for 2016, posting an increase...
The Game Archaeologist: Earth and Beyond
Personally, I prefer science fiction over fantasy nine times out of ten, even though most of the MMOs that grace my desktop are fantasy...
Marvel Heroes has totally overhauled summoners
As part of Marvel Heroes' Black Bolt patch last night, Gazillion made a number of major changes to the summoner characters. Previously, Gaz says,...
We may have already known about Overwatch’s next hero… for months
The next Overwatch hero is a quadraped Omnic named Anchora, and she appears to be a tank. This isn't a new announcement, though; it's...
Elder Scrolls Online: Deep-diving Morrowind’s PvP battlegrounds
At last week's Elder Scrolls Online press event, I sat down in the ESO Live studio to talk to the PvP designer in person:...
Elder Scrolls Online: Deep-diving Morrowind’s new Warden class
Along with a new expansive 30-hour long story, Elder Scrolls Online: Morrowind will introduce us to the game's first new class called the Warden,...
Elder Scrolls Online: Setting up the Morrowind story
Last week, I trekked out to Baltimore to visit ZeniMax Online Studios and get a first glimpse at Elder Scrolls Online's upcoming chapter/expansion, Morrowind. After all,...
The MOP Up: Hearthstone gets ready to banish dozens of cards (February 19, 2017)
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...
Star Citizen free-fly, 3.0 release interview, and Around the Verse
Valentine's Day may be over, but the chalky candy hearts and five-foot teddy bears remain. You know what's one other thing that's still around?...
Blizzard: WoW Tokens are ‘harmless’ and ‘make people happier’
In a new interview with Glixel, World of Warcraft Game Director Ion Hazzikostas opened up about the creation and use of WoW Tokens in...
Pokemon Go expands with 80 new critters, but the old tracker is never comin’ back
Pokemon Go players -- there's still a few of you out there, right? -- are in for a treat this week as the game...
Conan Exiles gets spotlighted for nudity and for its digital comic
The long-standing joke, for ages, was the man who adamantly explains to others that he purchases Playboy magazine for the articles, not the pictures...
PSA: Make sure you submit character feedback in Marvel Heroes by tomorrow
In case you're among the players still unimpressed or even downright unhappy with Marvel Heroes' biggest patch ever -- now a few weeks distant...
