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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...

Yesterday, while talking to some friends in Final Fantasy XIV, I noted that 750,000 gil for an item I only wanted for cosmetic purposes...

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...

To focus more on building a game and not wrestling with tools, the Ashes of Creation team has been working with the Unreal Engine...

Today's Daily Grind is inspired by two things: a longtime commenter, Agemyth, who proposed the topic, and the eastern version of Devilian, which raised eyebrows...

Rebuilding a game's models is hard and somewhat grueling work. Luckily, you can get some of the same impact at times by just providing...

There are a lot of artifact appearances in World of Warcraft: Legion, at least in theory. If you're not into pushing forward with PvP...

We've seen the landscapes of Snail Games' upcoming Dark and Light, but just landscapes alone aren't enough to make a game. What's a landscape...

We live in an era when most designers have noticed that we like to control what our characters look like as well as how...

Each of Crowfall's archetypes tends to be associated with a specific gender because the game's archetypes are a bit more comprehensive than simply classes....

Last week Perpetuum Online dropped Patch 3.8 on players -- and life will never be the same again. Well, it'll be very similar, actually,...

We can quibble about the quality and variety of content in MMORPGs, but I think most of us would agree that visually, online games...

Gaea's Wail is a Druid spell in Crowfall in which the Druid summons a spectral bear to attack people. This is, quite obviously, the...

One of the big elements of Camelot Unchained's design philosophy is the difference between its three factions. It wouldn't make a lot of sense...

If you feel like Heroes of the Storm is lacking in powerful spellcasters, your reasoning isn't particularly solid, but you can take heart in...

How pretty do the environments of Shroud of the Avatar look? According to the most recent development update, very pretty. The entry opens off...

Every Star Trek series has its iconic ships, and for Star Trek Online, the factional flagships fulfill those roles. Those flagships have recently received...

I've had some time to think about Blade & Soul, and I'm still not sure exactly what I want to say about it. I...