survival
Conan Exiles shows off new Blood and Sand goodies and announces a return to normal decay values
Are you ready for Blood and Sand? Well, more blood and sand than there already is in Conan Exiles, which looks like a place...
Funcom’s Joel Bylos steps down as creative director for Conan Exiles
There's been a changing of the guard over in Conan Exiles world: Joel Bylos has left the creative director's chair of the survival sandbox...
Choose My Adventure: Rediscovering the simple joy of flight in No Man’s Sky
Boy is it good to be back here.
I'll be honest, not much of what I did while flying around in No Man's Sky was...
PWE’s co-op shooter Remnant From the Ashes has officially launched
My guild chat channel is buzzing this morning over a game at least one friend likened to Hellgate, but in a good way: I'm...
Studio Wildcard’s co-founder talks about how ARK: Survival Evolved stays sustainable without microtransactions
We've all been beaten over the head with lots of news regarding predatory microtransactions practices, and there's certainly plenty of evidence that would lead...
The MOP Up: Nexon’s Project V4 aims to be the best-looking MMO in your pocket
Nexon gave a preview of Project V4 at a media preview event lately, and this fantasy MMO looks like one of the most shiny...
Fight or Kite: Guild Wars 2’s best PvP mode isn’t what you think it is – it’s minigames
One could certainly argue that Guild Wars 2’s primary focus is that of a PvE, story driven game. Hell, I’d make that argument. Yet,...
Sandbox MMO Project C solves bugs – and adds one on purpose – in its latest pre-alpha update
Still keeping an eye on Project C? That's the SpatialOS-based open-world persistent sandbox MMO by Darewise, the same company that along with studio Nvizzio struggled...
DayZ will be censored globally over Aussie ban, and nobody will say it’s because drugs, but it’s probably because drugs
Remember last week when we mentioned that DayZ was running into regulatory problems down under? The reigning Australian games rating board - the newly...
MMO Business Roundup: Threats on Square Enix, Netmarble’s weak Q2, and Steam’s Workshop scammers
Welcome back to another roundup of business tidbits relevant to the MMO industry!
Square Enix: First up, another edition of why we can't have nice...
Massively Overthinking: Morality and compelling choices in MMOs
The most recent episode of The Psychology of Video Games podcast touches on a subject we don't tackle very much: moral choices. It's an...
Studio Wildcard announces Genesis DLC and season pass for ARK Survival Evolved
The Sony leaks earlier today have now been proven true: ARK Survival Evolved is getting new DLC called Genesis, bundled up in a season...
MMO Business Roundup: Riot’s diversity ‘progress’, NetEase’s esports arena, DayZ down under, and Twitch threats
Welcome back to another roundup of what's going on in the business of making online games! Let's start with the most controversial of the...
Perfect Ten: MMOs of the apocalypse
It's the end of the world as we know it -- and for some reason, we are still gaming. I guess that your investment...
Legends of Aria hits Steam early access today with the PvP patch, a sale, and a free month of sub for loyalists
Legends of Aria's big day has arrived - or will when the gates open today around 3 p.m. EDT.
A few weeks ago, Citadel Studios...
Rust’s latest update brings a resource-harvesting excavator online
In survival sandboxes, it's all about them resources, and I'm hard-pressed to think anything would be better at harvesting resources than a gigantic rig...
H1Z1 opens wide the landscape of its new Outland map
Smaller size, muscle cars, and a place for pretty much every type of battle royale playstyle (though I always thought "shoot people, don't get...
Conan Exiles disables avatar summoning – again! – after players abuse exploit to… dupe gods
Dangit people, some of y'all just can't resist an exploit, can ya? Apparently an exploit with avatar tokens in Conan Exiles is causing such...
The Survivalist Soapbox: Astroneer’s moon landing update is a time-limited online event done right
I could definitely write a Why I Play on Astroneer (and maybe I still will!) because there are so many reasons this game just...
Sandbox MMO Boundless just got a massive post-launch farming update
It's been entirely too long since we checked in on Boundless, the Square-Enix backed voxel interplanetary survival-crafting MMO that hit Steam late last year,...
