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Corepunk embraces being a ‘traditional MMORPG’, shows off alpha gameplay
Last December, Corepunk blasted onto the MMO scene – and into our top list of MMOs to watch this year – when Dutch studio Artificial Core revealed the game as an isometric Unity-based MMORPG with a...
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Not So Massively: My top 10 favorite ARPG classes
I love me some ARPGs, but in any RPG your enjoyment will depend so much on finding the right class. A game that felt like a slog with one class can be a delight with another. Today I’d like to take a...
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Diablo III adds random elemental power discharges for Season 21
If you’re still waiting for Diablo IV, you are still going to be waiting for quite some time. That’s just the reality of the situation. If you’re waiting for Season 21 of Diablo III, however, you’ll...
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Blizzard celebrates 20 years of Diablo II
It brought us memes, it brought us Necromancers, it brought us farming for loot, and it theoretically brought us a showdown against evil creatures once more. Diablo II was a pretty significant game...
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Diablo III has launched Season 21, Trials of the Tempests
Not that Diablo III was ever a calm and peaceful game at the best of times, but with the advent of Season 21, it’s about to get even more frenetic than ever. The new season, dubbed Trials of the...
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Not So Massively: Online ARPGs are the pizza of gaming
I spend a lot of time thinking about online ARPGs these days. It’s always been a genre I’ve enjoyed, and since taking over the Not So Massively column last year, I’ve made a special effort to spend...
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Desert Oasis: Black Desert’s outlook in the lead-up to Crimson Desert
I’ve played nothing but the Black Desert season servers in the last month. It’s such a fresh breath of air, and it’s something I didn’t even know I wanted. There’s so much good stuff going with for it...
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Diablo III prepares its next season and item changes for public testing on...
The dawn of another season in Diablo III will soon be upon us, but before that is the daybreak of an upcoming PTR session to test out the next season’s content as well as a variety of legendary and...
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The MOP Up: Wakfu’s great server merge
Wakfu has finally set a date for its server merges. French servers are consolidating on October 14th, while international shards are coming together the day before that. “It is now technically possible...
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Not So Massively: Reflections on Blizzard, one year after the Hong Kong fiasco
Almost exactly a year ago, I declared that the Blizzard I loved is dead, in reaction to the Blitzchung/Hearthstone/Hong Kong fiasco. Twelve months later, that story has largely faded into the mists of...
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First Impressions: OARPG Torchlight III just hasn’t click-clicked with me yet
Since it never hurts to be honest, I should say upfront here that Echtra Games’ decision to radically retool Torchlight III from a F2P MMO to a buy-to-play multiplayer experience greatly disappointed...
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Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that you can play on the Nintendo Switch
Nintendo hasn’t held the title of “serious gamer console” in a while, with specs that lack the sheer graphical and processing muscles of the Xbox and PlayStation. Yet it’s always surprised the gaming...
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Diablo III Season 22 introduces shadow clones and a fourth Kanai’s Cube slot...
The seasons keep rolling on in Diablo III, with the ARPG’s 22nd season, Shades of the Nephalem, confirmed for Friday, November 20th. As the season’s name suggests, the wrinkle this time around is the...
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Diablo III has opened the unholy doors of Season 22
How is it that we are already at the 22nd season for Diablo III? No matter, we need to be killin’, not ponderin’! The fields of Diablo III will run especially red with the blood of your foes, thanks to...
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Wolcen team teases first Chronicle, Bloodtrail, with Diablo III-esque seasons
In the months following its release, the developers of Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem pursued an aggressive schedule of fixes and balance changes, an initiative dubbed the “Second Dawn,” but since Second...
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Diablo IV works to ‘get itemization right,’ promises something ‘chunky’ for...
When you come to a Diablo game, your brain is often just craving one thing: those loot explosions. Gear is a major source of those juicy endorphins, and it’s a part of the game that Blizzard knows it...
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Diablo Immortal kicks off technical alpha, confirms that it’s free-to-play
Queries about telephonic ownership aside, Diablo Immortal still has the attention of many who would dearly like to see an official Diablo on a mobile device. The Blizzard-NetEase project dropped a...
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Blizzard offers a plethora of game discounts with its holiday sale this year
We don’t really like advertising sales consistently here on Massively Overpowered because we already have actual advertising on the site and that costs money. But this year’s sales from Blizzard are,...
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Retro-style Diablo event The Darkening of Tristram returns to Diablo III this...
Hands up — who among you were there to enjoy the original launch of Diablo in 1997? I myself didn’t get onto the Diablo train until its sequel in 2000, and by then it was a monster of a franchise (no...
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The MOP Up: Red Dead Online gives free haircuts and booze to all
It’s a new year, pard’ners, and that deserves a round of drinks. And haircuts, too! Yeah, you’re looking a little shabby there! Red Dead Online is ringing in 2021 with a full honor reset and a crew...
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