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The latest update for EVE Online is all about making the game pretty. Make it look better. Higher ship texture resolution with better compression,...

There are times when No Man's Sky can be a remarkably beautiful game. It gets even prettier with the new Prisms update, which adds in...

For those of you who have forgotten my experiences with DC Universe Online, I found it one of the most obnoxious and unpleasant games to...

I recognize that I may be biased here, but it always surprises me how good Final Fantasy XI actually looks. Sure, there are a lot of...

I'm not really over Peria Chronicles, but one of the things that attracted my interest to the game was the loveliness of its cel-shaded graphics...

Gosh, City of Heroes is still a wonderful game... but boy, it really does show its age when I look at it now. The downside...

Herein lies the great contradiction for the underground zones of Neverwinter: The designers want you to feel as if you're hopelessly lost within an endless...

Whether or not you're tired of Arathi Basin and Warsong Gulch in World of Warcraft, those two battlegrounds are old. They're the oldest ones in the...

You don't want to know how much time I've spent carefully decorating my characters' living spaces in Final Fantasy XIV. Or maybe you do;...

When your game maintains an aggressive schedule of streaming, it can be a bit of a problem when your usual streaming host isn't available...

We haven't seen the character creation for City of Titans just yet, but you know that's going to be an important part of the...

The team behind Conan Exiles has been working hard over the past week, but a lot of that work has gone to the art...

Do you have strong opinions on the flow of lava? It's possible you're a trained scientist who knows when it looks right or wrong,...

How your character looks affects your enjoyment of an MMO. This is almost a tautology; you spent time in the character creator, obviously, so...

Casting spells has been a cornerstone of World of Warcraft since the game launched, and while the models and particle effects have gotten better,...

Are there furnishings you wish were in Final Fantasy XIV but keep not getting added? Perhaps you can take matters into your own hands...

There was an old joke among myself and some of my friends playing World of Warcraft about how it was convenient that bosses are...

The bright side for environmental artists working on Neverwinter's next module is that so much of the content takes place in familiar areas. That...

The UI matters a lot in an MMORPG -- at least if you're going to be staring at it pretty much constantly while you're playing...

One does not play League of Legends in a quest for diverse play environments. This is kind of the nature of the MOBA; you...