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Hi-Rez Expo 2017: SMITE introduces Morrigan, Celtic pantheon, and massive plans for season 4
Hi-Rez will take the floor of Hi-Rez Expo 2017 today to detail everything coming to SMITE's fourth season of play, which is expected to...
AdventureQuest 3D previews its new bank vault
Inventory woes in AdventureQuest 3D might not be going away anytime soon, but they should be lessening come next week's patch thanks to the...
Perfect Ten: Biggest MMORPG surprises of 2016
Back at the beginning of December, I posted a list of what I considered to be the biggest MMORPG stories of 2016. However, there...
Shroud of the Avatar is in the final stretch before launch
Shroud of the Avatar is planning to hit the ground running in 2017, sprinting right on to the full launch of the game. The...
Valiance Online clarifies alpha and Steam launch plans
Back in October, Valiance Online announced that it was superjumping onward from pre-alpha to alpha and revealed that it'll use a free-to-play model, or...
Star Trek Online’s Borg come home for the holidays
What are you hoping to see in your stocking come Christmas morning? If you're like most geeks, chances are that you are hoping against...
Winter festivities arrive in Black Desert today
It's Christmas in Black Desert! Or at least it will be once the extra maintenance is over.
Kakao is kicking off the winter festivities today...
Heroes of Newerth adds a new hero, ranking system, and wipes away all demerits
Ho ho holy crap, Heroes of Newerth is getting a massive patch just in time for Christmas. The game's 4.0 update not only adds...
Neos Land starts light pre-alpha testing
The doors have been opened -- albeit only a crack -- to admit the first few testers into Neos Land. NeoJac announced that last weekend...
Pokemon GO confirms rumors with Generation 2 update, 7800-store Starbucks rollout
The Starbucks leak is at least partially true: Niantic has confirmed that Pokemon Go has teamed up with the coffee company. Starting at 2 p.m. EST today,...
Mech_Con 2016: MWO skill trees, game modes, and MechWarrior 5: Mercenaries
As one might hope for from a convention, Mech_Con 2016 was a time to not only hang out with other fans and meet the...
Shards Online updates players on permadeath and targeting
It's been a while since we've checked in on Shards Online, so let's talk about death. No, not the game itself, but death within...
The MOP Up: Hearthstone cruises down some Mean Streets (December 4, 2016)
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...
Maplestory’s V: Limitless arrives along with downtime compensation
Black Desert fans weren't the only ones waiting extra long for their servers to return to service today after a major update: Maplestory players...
Vets can now play through EVE Online’s new player experience
Following the Ascension expansion -- and the free-to-play conversion that seems to have been a success for getting warm bodies back into EVE Online...
The Exiled begins its closed alpha today, and we’ve got keys!
The closed alpha for The Exiled -- the game formerly known as Das Tal -- has begun!
From December 1st to December 21st, early backers...
Hearthstone patches up for Mean Streets of Gadgetzan tomorrow
The streets of Gadgetzan are not mean right now in Hearthstone. (The game where they originated doesn't even have streets, just packed-dirt paths.) But...
UK watchdog group dismisses gamer complaints over No Man’s Sky advertising
Back in September, we reported that UK watchdog group Advertising Standards Authority was investigating No Man's Sky following "several" -- we now know it...
Take a gander at Forsaken Legends’ art update and arena video
If you were too busy stuffing yourself with turkey this past weekend (and then sleeping it off), you might have missed the new Forsaken...
ARK: Survival Evolved passes certification with its PlayStation 4 version
Good news today for dinosaur fans with a PlayStation 4; it looks as if the PS4 version of ARK: Survival Evolved has successfully passed...