EVE buffs up the Encounter Surveillance System to encourage player fighting even after taking out PvE bounties
The upcoming new Dynamic Bounty System for EVE Online gives players a reason to fight PvE pirates and earn bounties, with the game's multiplier...
Pirates of the Burning Sea’s new operators released a new launcher, patcher, and website, with plans for a legacy server
One of the feel-good stories of 2019 came from the corner of the MMOverse belonging to Pirates of the Burning Sea, when the remaining...
Choose My Adventure: Exploring a new world and new bugs in No Man’s Sky
My goodness how things have changed.
I have had a brief peek at No Man's Sky once before, but only the barest peeks, so being...
Whatever happened to Valve’s digital card game Artifact?
Valve's digital card game Artifact launched in much the same way that the Soviet R-16 test-launched at Baikonur. Since then, back in May the...
MechWarrior Online’s CM promises more community input and a ‘rough outline of a plan’ for updates
Another news story about MechWarrior Online roughly two weeks since our last report? Yes, believe it or not, the lines of communication appear to...
The Daily Grind: How do you feel about character boosting in MMOs?
To clarify right off the bat, I don't meant elo boosting as in MOBAs; I mean using character boosts, either paid or otherwise, in...
Massively Uplifting: Supporting small businesses, grieving through games, and lending helping hands
Did you go trick-or-treating? There's still time! Here, have a handful of warm fuzzies! Take some full-sized good deeds! October has been full of...
Final Fantasy XI announces its November update with a newbie channel and more story
The Voracious Resurgence continues along in Final Fantasy XI, and the game's November version update will start in on the second chapter of this new...
Hellgate: London rogue server London: 2038 enters beta
If you take a look back at the extremely bumpy history of Hellgate: London, the fact that the game has got yet another lease...
Wisdom of Nym: The implications of Final Fantasy XIV Forspoken
So we do actually know the title of the next Final Fantasy XIV expansion now, even though we don't. Technically this has not yet been...
Global Chat: How World of Warcraft can be peaceful
A recent article about the revised leveling process in World of Warcraft caught my eye, because MMO blogger Kaylriene spoke about how it's really...
One Shots: Cooking with arsenic
In the apocalypse, cooking shows are a lot weirder -- and deadlier. But just because your co-host accidentally drank that bubbling green liquid and...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever gotten into MMO lore speculation?
When you play Star Wars: The Old Republic, there is a certain sort of lore speculation that holds that in 3000 years none of this...
PSA: The online memorial for Meridian 59’s Brian Green is this afternoon
It's been a long year, so you're entirely forgiven if you forgot that we lost Brian "Psychochild" Green this past summer. Green was the...
WRUP: Wither bird edition
he came to me
he came to me though I was afraid
my fear and anxiety have ruled my life and it has been so consuming
upon...
The Daily Grind: What MMO boss quote can’t you get out of your head?
There's one thing to be said about running the same dungeons and fighting the same bosses in MMORPGs repeatedly: You absolutely end up memorizing...
Betawatch: Spooky scary Bless Unleashed closed betas
Yes, I know, Bless Unleashed isn't scary... except for the specter of the original Bless that hovers in the background. Oooh, there's a closed...
Afrofantasy MMORPG The Wagadu Chronicles just funded on Kickstarter for almost $200K
Twin Drums and its fans have done it: The Wagadu Chronicles just fully funded on Kickstarter to the tune of €163,910 (around $191,400 US)...
Naïca releases a gorgeous pixel art trailer ahead of its equally pixelated open beta
The open beta for Naïca starts on November 10th. We've covered that before, of course, along with all of the things that the game...
The MMO Cartographer: In the Echo of Echo of Soul
How much would you pay to play a game that has been shut down as a free-to-play game and then re-released as a buy-to-play...