Eliot Lefebvre
Vague Patch Notes: Crime and punishment and intent in MMOs
Last week, we saw Blizzard explain its philosophy behind why some World of Warcraft bugs in which players got to get more stuff than...
Star Trek Online’s patch today continues adjusting patrols rewards
Here's the bad news for today's patch in Star Trek Online: The Delta patrol missions will be providing less experience at the end of the...
Fallout 76 kicks off another cleanup project while planning for 2020
The Meat Week has returned in Fallout 76, but players can already look ahead to the next part of cleaning up Appalachia starting on October...
Eternal Magic moves into open beta today – here’s the new trailer
Good news, fans of optimization: Eternal Magic is moving into open beta today, and one of the elements that it's boasting is that it...
WoW Factor: No, Battle for Azeroth’s story hasn’t paid off by the end of the war campaign
You know, I honestly had expected to do something else for WoW Factor this week, and then I was reminded that the war campaign was...
Second impressions: Astellia Online’s launch version is a solidly average MMO
So... here's the thing about Astellia Online. You remember my first impressions piece? I freely acknowledged that the game was fundamentally a fine title...
The Daily Grind: How important do you think player hubs are in MMOs?
It was really obvious how bad Warlords of Draenor was going to be when the expansion shifted its player centers. There were two cities that...
PlanetSide 2 releases a PlanetSide: Arena cosmetic bundle and back-end improvements
If you're enjoying your time in PlanetSide: Arena and want to get some of that look in PlanetSide 2, the developers will be delighted to sell you...
Wakfu’s latest update, the Return of the Thirsters, is now live
If you play Wakfu but don't follow the associated animated series, you might just think that "Return of the Thirsters" sounds like a vaguely bad...
City of Heroes’ Homecoming rogue servers are now blocking copyright-infringing characters
Players on the City of Heroes Homecoming servers enjoyed a privilege they were never afforded during the game's pre-shutdown run time: While NCsoft was draconian...
Anthem leaves Cataclysm content in the game until the next seasonal update
The first major event for Anthem has ended, but the content hasn't vanished just yet after all. A new post on the official site reveals...
Perfect Ten: The biggest moments in Final Fantasy XIV’s storytelling
As has been noted before, Natusko Ishikawa is a treasure. Reading an interview with her about her work on Final Fantasy XIV's latest expansion reminded...
Cryptic is hiring (again?) for its Magic: the Gathering MMO
The Cryptic-developed MMO based on Magic: the Gathering has entered several periods of long silence from the studio, but the latest post about hiring...
World of Warcraft concludes war campaign with Reckoning cinematic, Aron Eisenberg memorial event is planned
It was pretty clear that all of the threads in World of Warcraft's war campaign for Battle for Azeroth would come together in a face-off against...
Destiny 2 prepares for its Steam jump with maintenance and preloading
It's almost time for Destiny 2 to enter the verdant fields of Steam, and you had best believe that comes along with some maintenance times....
World of Warcraft: Classic is successfully letting some players reconnect with old friends
This is just plain nice to see. Regardless of anything else going on in World of Warcraft: Classic, it's good to see people finding old...
Australian police are investigating crimes linked to an Overwatch esports team
The obvious old joke to be made was that if esports were real sports, they'd be linked to organized crime. Alas, the joke no longer...
Final Fantasy XIV brings back the Moogle Treasure Trove until patch 5.1
Did you think you were just about done with things in Final Fantasy XIV ahead of patch 5.1? Well think again, because the Moogle Treasure...
Closers lets Seth head up to Special Agent status
It's time for another Closers patch, and this one is all focused on Seth. Yes, you're probably getting enough Seth in your life already (although...
Black Desert Online previews a quartet of upcoming Awakenings for the PlayStation 4
On September 24th players who enjoy Black Desert Online on PlayStation 4 will get a wake-up call with the introduction of Awakenings. Fans already familiar...