The finishing touch

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 of it gets backlogged. That’s why there’s The MOP Up: a weekly compilation of smaller MMO stories and videos that you won’t want to miss. Seen any good MMO news? Hit us up through our tips line! Maybe you’ll discover a new game in this space — or be reminded of an old favorite! You can catch up on new MMOs, word on the testing process, smaller patches and updates, in-game events, essential videos, and more, all waiting for you after the break! New Games and Testing Prosperous Universe: The team moves into a new “office” and puts the finishing touches on this MMO’s website. Anthem: BioWare announced that Sarah Schachner (Call of Duty, Assassin’s Creed) will be handling the composing duties for this upcoming multiplayer game. Give a listen to one of the tracks here: … [Read more...] about The MOP Up: Monster Hunter World soars past 10 million copies (August 26, 2018)

It was the mid-’80s, and I was just a kid in love with his family’s IBM PC. Not having a wealth of capital at the time, I relied on hand-me-down copies of software that rolled in from friends and family and probably the Cyber-Mafia. Practically none of the disks came with instructions (or even labels, sometimes), and as such I felt like an explorer uncovering hidden gems as I shoved in 5 1/4″ floppy after 5 1/4″ floppy. Some titles were great fun, some were so obtuse I couldn’t get into them, and some were obviously meant for those older and wiser than I. One game that fell into the latter category was a brutally difficult RPG that smelt of Dungeons & Dragons — a forbidden experience for me at the time. It was just a field of ASCII characters, jumbled statistics, and instant death awaiting me around every corner. I gave it a few tries but could never progress past the first level, especially when I’d keep running out of arrows, so I gave … [Read more...] about The Game Archaeologist: The Island of Kesmai

Fun fact: Did you know that Darkfall: New Dawn has a skill called “eye rot?” Isn’t that all you will be thinking about for the rest of today? It’s an infectious fact! Now that our eyes are twitching, we can try to distract ourselves with the changes to New Dawn’s magical schools with Update 2.1. “The theme of this patch is finishing up on the mechanical changes for magic,” the team said. “Our general goal with magic is to have schools that play differently, as bundles of spells.” As such, the developers have made adjustments to arcane magic, necromancy, and certain signature spells like earthquake, healing chant, come hither, and wall of force. Following this magic-centric patch, the devs will review some of the game’s melee weapons and finish equalizing the magic and physical progression paths. “We are now in the interface phase, still quite a bit to do,” they said. Source: Darkfall: New DawnSHARE THIS … [Read more...] about Darkfall: New Dawn puts the finishing touches on its magic schools

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 of it gets backlogged. That’s why there’s The MOP Up: a weekly compilation of smaller MMO stories and videos that you won’t want to miss. Seen any good MMO news? Hit us up through our tips line! Maybe you’ll discover a new game in this space — or be reminded of an old favorite! This week we have stories and videos from Hellion, Reign of Guilds, Skyforge, Old School RuneScape, War of Rights, Lineage M, Heroes and Generals, Aurcus Online, ARK Park, Dark and Light, Wild Terra, Citadel: Forged With Fire, and Hearthstone, all waiting for you after the break! New Games and Testing Dark and Light: The promised development kit has seen some delays — but don’t worry, it’s still on the way! Lineage M: A global version of this … [Read more...] about The MOP Up: Old School RuneScape puts the finishing touches on Theater of Blood (May 20, 2018)