game design

So we've gotten another post from a developer saying that they're going to really 100% be better about rooting out toxic players from their...

A new event named The Agency kicked off this week in EVE Online, and it looks a bit like the daily quest systems you...

Fenix Fire CEO Brian McRae is "not having fun either," according to his latest dev blog on the Osiris: New Dawn Steam page. His...

Hearing that something is coming "soon" is the bane of every MMO player; it technically qualifies as a time frame, but it's vague and...

Of all the terminology associated with EVE Online, the one thing that's always made me a bit uncomfortable is to hear players describe PvP as "generating...

It probably won't surprise you to know that we spend a lot of time in work chat behind the scenes of Massively Overpowered discussing...

A world as intricate and fanatically followed as Overwatch is bound to spark a question or two about its mysteries and secrets. In a...

The end of Final Fantasy XIV came quite some time ago, but the game is still going. That's because the launch of the game's...

Of all the headlines to come out of EVE Online over the years, the biggest and most far-reaching have been the stories of massive thefts...

No matter what class you play in World of Warcraft, you're probably certain that the developers hate your class in particular and love some...

Monster Hunter World's reveal caught me completely off guard during its E3 2017 reveal. We'd already had a title announced for the Nintendo Switch, and...

The animals in Wurm Online aren't just there to be captured and/or killed by players. They're meant to act in a plausible manner, avoiding...

What's the most newbie-friendly MMO? According to Pete at Dragonchasers, it's Final Fantasy XIV. He's been pretty impressed by the support structure that the...

EVE Online players have been up in arms this week over sweeping nerfs that are about to hit to high-end farming gameplay styles in the...

The Dreamcast was a brief but shining aberration in the gaming world. Coming along years after Sega had fallen out of its position as...

Whew. All right. Last week had a big old release of news about Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood, and now I'm far more relaxed because...

I was reading a recent Daily Grind article on the topic of unique healing classes and it prompted me to think about the variety...

I've been playing a lot of Ultima Online the past few weeks, but so many times I'll be doing something that is objectively tedious...

With the move to put The Secret World in maintenance mode and shift focus to the rebooted Secret World Legends, one MMO blogger decided...

Could ARK: Survival Evolved finally be launching? That's a question many survivors would love to see answered soon. Unfortunately, we can't provide you with...