Moonlight Sculptor merges servers tomorrow, previews content update
The future of mobile MMO Moonlight Sculptor is one of merging servers and extra layers of existing content according to the game's most recent post. Server merges will be happening on Tuesday, August 17th, while the game's next regular maintenance will happen that following Thursday, August 19th. Exact timing for both events will be announced […]
War Thunder's Summer Landing event offers rare vehicles for completing achievements
What War Thunder player doesn't like getting free vehicles? The game is all about military vehicles blowing one another up, so presumably having more choices in that regard is a welcome thing, which means that the Summer Landing event is going to be very interesting to players as it's handing out six rare vehicles for […]
Profane shares another alpha roadmap update, plans to test character creation soon
PvP MMO Profane is back on its Twitter trip, this time offering another update to its alpha roadmap and a quick rundown of the various development milestones made by the team at Insane Studios. Some of the updates called out in the Twitter thread include work on basic combat and the weapons systems, which should […]
RuneScape opens the Senntisten mini dig site and hands out free action bar presents in latest update
Last week RuneScape talked up the small scale Senntisten Archaeology dig site that was coming today, so it stands to reason that this week's news letter is all about the content's launch. The new content is available to subscribers who have an Archaeology level of 60 or higher and offers six excavation spots across four […]
How to make 18-year-old Star Wars Galaxies look pretty on one rogue server
If you read my trip through Star Wars Galaxies Legends for Choose My Adventure, you already know I made a lot about the help that the Napyet Gaming YouTube channel provides, and for good reason; the channel is full of extremely helpful guides for new players as well as some thoughts on the game, all […]
Path of Exile's next patch makes a number of changes to Expedition vendors
Either sometime today or later this week, Path of Exile will be getting its next patch, but as of yesterday players are able to check out the patch notes for the update, which features a fairly long list of updates for the Expedition League. Among these changes are the addition of item level 86 goods […]
Atlas previews plants and spider mounts arriving in the game's next major patch
So, Atlas fans, what do you want from the next major patch? Small clan support? Well, that's not in there. Major bug fixes? Uh… well, hopefully. Better ship customization? Improvements to the core gameplay loop? More player customization? Well… Look, let's start this post over. Hello, Atlas fans! What you're getting in the next patch […]
City of Titans' flight travel power is getting good tester feedback
There is no superhero travel power as iconic as flight — and none that is as important for a superhero MMO to get right. City of Titans knows this, which is why it's been soliciting feedback from testers on its flight mechanics following the power's introduction into the build. On the whole, this first pass […]
Brazilian police have arrested a suspect in the murder of an Overwatch voice actress
PC Gamer is reporting the shocking news that Brazilian voice actress Christiane Louise has been murdered and that police have now arrested the suspected killer. Christiane Louise would be best known to our audience for her role as the Portuguese-language version of Mercy in Overwatch, but the site also notes that she had roles in […]
Blade and Soul 2 offers a quick look at sword versus axe one-on-one PvP gameplay
There have been plenty of videos coming out of Blade and Soul 2, but a vast majority of them have been pre-rendered CG animations, with only one trailer actually showing active gameplay. That trailer count has increased to two now, as the game has offered a new video with some 1v1 PvP action. The video […]
Project Gorgon teases its August patch, with five new non-combat skills
It's been a month and change since we peeked into Project Gorgon, and if you just follow the game on Twitter, you will have missed all the stuff Elder Game has apparently been posting in its Discord since then. Back in July, the company collected questions for a Q&A – yes, in Discord – and […]
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft's burning of Teldrassil plot wrap-up is terrible
Fair warning: This post contains spoilers for the current World of Warcraft plotline for anyone who has not finished up the latest parts of the covenant campaign. If you have not finished the campaign and do not want to read spoilers, you should avoid this post. These spoilers are stupid. But it does contain spoilers. […]
Bless Unleashed PC counts a million downloads on PC since its Steam launch
So, how is Bless Unleashed doing since its PC launch earlier this month? Well, apparently, as it's now claiming 1M downloads on PC alone. "Neowiz and Round8 Studio are thrilled to announce that Bless Unleashed has already seen over one million downloads on PC. Since the game's August 6th launch on Valve's Steam platform, the […]
Opinion: Free Guy is a great watch – particularly for MMO fans
I don't wind up writing a whole lot of movie reviews. This isn't because I don't watch a lot of movies or don't think about movies a lot, but just because, well… Massively Overpowered is an MMO site, and there's not a whole lot of space for me to talk about movies on a regular […]
WildStar's Stephan Frost shares the depressing 'flat circle' of MMO development
Former WildStar lead Stephan Frost piped up on Twitter this past Friday to share a story. This isn't just any story, but rather all stories of MMORPG development, from concept to release and beyond. In summation, he says that this "flat circle" brings around the same problems, struggles, and fallout of development again and again. […]
The Soapbox: World of Warships' aggressive monetization incited a mass-exodus of content creators
Gaming monetization has been a topic of intense conversation ever since box copies of software diminished in favor of persistent online experiences. Subscription services entered the scene but presented the problem of a monthly commitment to the unknown. Then we got swarmed with free-to-play titles and the introduction of cash shops and designs intended to […]
Amazon Game Studios retracts policies that claim rights to games made by workers after hours
Nobody is going to accuse Amazon Game Studios of being a house of ideas, considering the studio has already been exposed as a place where trends are chased and games get cancelled the moment they're unpopular. This notion was reaffirmed when a software engineer at Google shared a part of a contract AGS employees have […]
Elyon outlines equipment and gear enhancement, opens pre-download for CBT2
The video series all about the systems in Elyon continue with a look at equipment and enhancement. Equipment comes in one of five tiers from common to legendary, and each piece of gear has stats, a number of slots that represent how many times it can be enhanced, a random effect in some cases, and […]
The Daily Grind: Does a class' style or playstyle matter more to you in MMOs?
Consider this my ode to the Guild Wars franchise's Mesmers. I love everything about them but how they play in practice. I love how they look. I love how their skills look. I love the idea of dancing around with illusions and riddles and light weapons and fancy outfits. But I've never loved how they […]
MMO Week in Review: Astellia Online gives up, Guild Wars 2 gets classy
Classy as in elite specs, that is. Yes, Guild Wars 2 fully revealed its first three End of Dragons elite specs this week, making fans of the Mesmer, Necro, and Guardian happy. Or not happy; it's really hard to tell with GW2 players. Meanwhile, Astellia Online threw in the towel, Blade & Soul set a […]
Battle Bards Episode 199: World of Warcraft tavern tunes
At the start and end of a long day of adventurin', the Battle Bards love to kick back with a frosty mug of (ginger) ale or a stein of (root) beer at their favorite taverns. And what watering holes have better music than World of Warcraft, which actually released a full album of it? In […]
The MOP Up: Warface's Hidden War is revealed
This week, Warface kicked off its Hidden War season: "The season update adds a new PvP-map called Ruins for capture mode where players can use traps against their opponents to change the map topology and gain a tactical advantage. Two new series of weapons and a set of armor complement the collections of players. Soon, […]
Lineage W is yet another mobile version of the MMO series 'strategically developed for global users'
At this point, the Lineage series is going to undergo so much mitosis that it will finally become a multi-cellular organism that will randomly wander the world and unleash massive AOEs on the planet. Until that time, there's word of another mobile entry in the MMOARPG series known as Lineage W. And as the lede […]
The Stream Team: Firing up the transdimensional steam engine of Voidtrain early access
When news of the early access survival sandbox Voidtrain crossed our desk, it perked a few ears in the staff. One of those perked ears belong to MOP's Chris, which is an anomaly because survival sandboxes usually aren't his bag, but who doesn't love trains? Interdimensional ones at that? Join him at 12:00 p.m. EDT […]
Destiny 2 covers changes coming to armor and mods in Season 15
Last week, Destiny 2 offered players a look at PvE changes due for Season 15, and this week the game's newsletter focused in on armor and mod changes that the new season will be bringing. The post goes through a variety of adjustments, including some tuning to Exotic armors that refund Super energy and buffing […]
One Shots: Flying into bugs at 90 mph
Flight may look cool on the superhero travel powers selection screen, but what they don't tell you in the shop is that it comes with a whole bunch of drawbacks: neck cricks, sun damage, collisions with amateur drone conventions, and a face full of bugs smacking into you at 90 miles per hour. You keep […]
The Daily Grind: What's the dumbest thing you've seen an MMO dev do on social media?
The great thing about social media is that it can be a great medium for people to communicate in real-time and let everyone know what you're thinking. The worst thing is… exactly that. But however bad it is when you accidentally say something that a bit more thought would have told you that it was […]
EVE Online creates the Fleet Up program to support IRL community events, starts testing its Mac client
Some people are starting to feel confident enough to meet up and gather in real life again, whether it's for smaller get-togethers or some larger events like, say, a community-run meetup for fans and players of EVE Online. CCP Games is hoping to facilitate and support player events for the spaceship MMO, and it's willing […]
World of Tanks celebrates 11 years with new tank presents and the return of Frontline
Dang, does it feel as if World of Tanks has been around 11 years already? Apparently it has, otherwise celebrating its 11th birthday would be a really weird flex. Anyhow, Wargaming got you a present. You're not gonna say no to a present. "World of Tanks' August Heat is hotting up even more with their […]
ZeniMax goes into detail on Elder Scrolls Online's latest graphics upgrades
If you haven't heard this already, Elder Scrolls Online is about to roll out some very nice graphical and performance upgrades to both its console and PC editions when its Waking Flame DLC drops at the end of the month. It's the sort of announcement that prompts several follow-up questions, which is exactly what WCCFtech […]
Book of Travels explains how its skills work for players in new video
Skills! Who doesn't like skills? People who don't have any skills, that's who. Book of Travels will have skills just like any other game, although some of the uses of those skills will be quite different from how other games use them. A new video explains how the game's skills are meant to work, with […]
LOTRO Legendarium: Exploring Lord of the Rings Online's choose-your-own-ruleset
Earlier this summer when Lord of the Rings Online kicked off its second batch of progression servers — the slow Treebeard and speedy Shadowfax rulesets — I wasn't on board with it. I hadn't really returned to LOTRO yet, for one thing, and felt as though I had gotten most of what I wanted from […]
Guild Wars 2 deep-dives elite specs, previews August 17 balance changes
If you were looking to find out more about the three elite specs that were revealed by Guild Wars 2, then you might want to set aside about an hour of your time to check out a beta preview livestream that talks all about the classes. The stream effectively provided a deep dive into the […]
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The Daily Grind: What SWTOR class story and combat style will you combine with this year's expansion?
The announcement of Star Wars: The Old Republic's upcoming expansion certainly seems to have called more than a few lapsed Jedi and Bounty Hunters back to its fold. I've seen a lot of renewed excitement in BioWare's MMORPG because of Legacy of the Sith, but not because of anything to do with the continued story. […]
Betawatch: Ship of Heroes rolls out its public mission beta event
It's time for Ship of Heroes to go full-on into beta testing for a while as it runs its mission beta event. If you're curious about how the game feels at this point doing actual content? Good news, we've got a whole write-up for you! There's also discussion from the developers about strategies and difficulty […]
Bless Unleashed plans weekend events, patches fixes to frame-limiting and chat
Bless Unleashed's newly launched PC version is a flurry of activity and events this weekend. First, Round8 is running a "push" event that essentially rewards players for logging in. If you log in each day this weekend within the right time periods, you'll walk away with a reward chest and as many as eight tickets. […]
Final Fantasy XI has kicked off its Return to Vana'diel and discount campaigns
Why not come back to Final Fantasy XI? The developers will be your friends! Well, maybe that's a bit far to go, but it's a remarkably active game for a title that was supposedly in some kind of maintenance mode at one point, and that will never stop being hilarious. And you can laugh right […]
Ragnarok Origin opens NA preregistration and teases free Tesla giveaway
Ragnarok Online is a classic MMO that doesn't get nearly the attention it deserves, but maybe it will get its day in the sun again as Gravity Co. is rolling out a mobile entry in the franchise called Ragnarok Origin. Pre-registration for North America has begun already, and it's running a pretty unusual giveaway: If […]
AdventureQuest 3D invites players to celebrate Friday the 13th with new content at the House of Oddities
Regular players of AdventureQuest 3D know that Friday the 13th is something of a beloved holiday in the game, and while the Camp Gonnagetcha content will still be making a return next week, the game is seeking to start a new tradition focused entirely on the House of Oddities. This new "seasonal" content will see […]
New World kicks off the Tales of Aeturnum series with the Angry Earth
It's going to be a little longer until you get to try out New World, but the development team is doing its bets to keep you entertained with a new video series, Tales of Aeturnum. The whole idea here is to show off the lore and setting information behind the game's various enemy factions, with […]
Project M is a mobile shooter from NetEase that strongly resembles Valorant
As the old expression goes, if you can't beat 'em, make something extremely close to what they're making in order to infringe on the market share of 'em. That seems to be the motivating philosophy of NetEase's Project M, which looks enough like a mashup of Valorant on a mobile platform that you could be forgiven […]
The Elder Scrolls Online promises 'a peek at what is on the horizon' at digital QuakeCon 2021
Bethesda will be hosting the digital QuakeCon 2021 event on its Twitch channel next week, and fans of The Elder Scrolls Online are apparently going to want to tune in to the event, as there's promise of some details, reveals, and more slated for the MMORPG's portion of the show. ZeniMax Online studio head Matt […]
Nexon CEO blasts crunch and the 'charade of launch timing'
It's Friday, which means it's time to play one of my favorite weekend games: Check out what a top-tier gaming executive is saying about the industry. Today's subject is Nexon CEO Owen Mahoney. Readers will recall that Nexon posted its second quarter earnings earlier this week, admitting that it had performed poorly because of a […]
Mortal Online 2 will launch early access October 26 – apparently with a sub
Yesterday, Mortal Online 2 developer Starvault announced in its Discord that it's planning a final stress test for the beginning of September with an early access slated to launch October 26th. But what has everyone on Reddit and the Discord buzzing is the revelation that the early access will be accompanied by a mandatory subscription, although […]
Star Citizen talks about the development of 'Jumptown 2' and Arena Commander updates
PvP is probably one of the larger portions of entertainment for players of Star Citizen (or one of the larger pain points, depending on who you ask), and the latest episode of Inside Star Citizen is all about PvP, talking up how PvP is overall good for PvE players since it helps the devs balance […]
Elyon talks up its skill system ahead of the MMORPG's second closed beta test
Skills. Skills skills skills skills skills. Skills for kills and thrills. Skills that go boom. Skills that go zippity-zappy. Skills that don't have any actual visual effects but provide boons because they're passive. Skills in Elyon. A video about skills in Elyon. Skilly skill skills. Skill time, skillets. As one might expect, classes in Elyon […]
Crowfall plans a new system for initiating sieges, shares another roadmap of content updates and additions
Crowfall's ACE Q&A livestream for the month of August has come and gone, and the devs are looking ahead to the RvR MMO's next major update. This new patch for the game will introduce a handshake system for initiating keep and castle sieges, which should hopefully prevent players defending a location from logging in en […]
Vague Patch Notes: The lesson hidden in the Astellia shutdown
A couple years ago, an MMO launched named Astellia. It was fine. It wasn't bad. It wasn't good. It was just fine. It was perfectly acceptable as a buy-to-play game, but a lot of people were waiting for the free-to-play conversion right out of the gate. It had nothing to stand up and make you […]
Mythic Legions Tactics: War of the Aetherblade is a multiplayer optional tactical game based on a toy line
So there's apparently a line of action figures known as Mythic Legions that has something of a large following; created by Four Horseman Studios, it's designed around the land of Mythoss and features six inch-tall, highly articulated, and very detailed figures, if the looks at some of them are anything to go by. We bring […]
