game design

Back in 2013, I took a walk through the annals of the EverQuest franchise's history. What started as one title not only blossomed into...

EVE Online's recent Into the Abyss expansion has been live now for several months, adding the first ever solo instanced PvE game mode in...

This year kicked off with a bang for EVE Online as rumblings emerged of impending war on a scale that the gaming world had...

If immersion and realism are what you crave in a new MMORPG, take a look at Codename Reality, another new game in our field...

Test servers! They're a great way to get a peek at new content or to actually hammer through any major game-breaking bugs that might...

Earlier this month, BioWare's James Ohlen announced that he was retiring from the company where he'd worked for more than two decades, part of...

A few months ago, I created a new character and ran through the new player experience for an article on how to get new...

Over the weekend, I was chatting with the mom of my son's friend and let slip that I'm a video game blogger. Her reaction?...

Former ArenaNet developer Jessica Price has just made a string of new statements on Twitter discussing some of the issues surrounding the ongoing Guild...

Throughout most of EVE Online's lifetime, players have developed their own third-party applications (and yes, spreadsheets) to help organise and enhance their gameplay. We've...

Ever since the World Health Organization decided it will include its "gaming disorder" classification in its upcoming disease classification manual revision, game journalists, mainstream...

Last week, we reported on an emerging lawsuit lodged over the new Westworld mobile game. Bethsoft is suing Behaviour Interactive and Warner Bros. over what it...

All right. When last I left off my Final Fantasy XI time, it was... wait, June 7th?! What the heck happened? If not for...

By now, many of you probably know that I'm the curator of the MMO Timeline on my personal blog. On this page, I've attempted...

EVE Online's recent Into the Abyss expansion has managed to grip me in a way that few expansions have, providing a challenging new solo...

A trio of companies known best to our audience for their MMOs are gearing up for a big court battle in the streets of...

EVE Online's new Into The Abyss expansion launched less than two weeks ago and I'm bloody obsessed with it! Players have had great success...

For all its early access faults, Bless Online's seemingly endless stream of producer updates and apologies ought to at least help assuage some of...

Raph Koster is certainly a well-known name in the MMORPG industry who has spent his career working on titles such as Ultima Online, Star...

There are just two days to go before EVE Online's Into the Abyss expansion lands on May 29th, introducing its new Abyssal Deadspace solo...