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Tarisland discusses updates to fishing gameplay as it celebrates over 1M pre-registrations
Fishing is one of the best in-game activities that an MMO can provide and I will not be taking questions on this matter, yet the fishing in Tarisland left something to be desired according to beta tester feedback, so that's led Tencent to make several adjustments to the activity to render it less annoying and less challenging.
In general, all...
‘If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing,’ say gamers reviewbombing the remaining The Crew games
Ubisoft's self-inflicted wounds continue their slow damage-over-time effects as the company that responded to the Stop Killing Games initiative by killing The Crew 1 even more quickly is now being targeted for reviewbombing by angry The Crew players.
We first caught wind of the uproar thanks to the Accursed Farms twitter account - Accursed Farms being the Ross Scott-led channel...
Massively on the Go: April showers didn’t bring Pokemon GO May event flowers
April was a rough month for Pokemon Go, as the game failed to deliver on Earth Day - an event Niantic used to champion - and added a battery-draining feature, all compounded by the avatar update debacle, storage bloating event, terrible Community Day pick, another boring Kanto event, and Hatch "Day" somehow being worse than before.
With all that, you...
ArcheAge’s player-run rogue servers are booming as the retail MMORPG’s sunset is looming
Now that fans of ArcheAge know for certain that their sandbox will be shutting down in June, there are some who are perhaps looking to the emulation and rogue server communities to keep living in their preferred game world. It's with those folks in mind that we have decided to circle back and see how things are doing for...
Fight or Kite: Pax Dei’s alpha is equal parts survival gameplay and grind-fueled crafting
In my experience, I’ve found "survival game" and "grindfest" are synonymous with each other in all but the rarest of cases. There just seems to be a faction of gamers who really do not want anyone to be able to play and succeed in a reasonable period of playtime. You must work and expend your precious life time before...
Star Citizen allows third wave of testers to alpha 3.23’s PTU, talks about upcoming UI changes
Now that access to the PTU of Star Citizen is linked to overall account activity, players have been waiting for their turn in line to check out alpha 3.23. That enforced patience is being rewarded this week, as CIG has confirmed that Wave 3 backers can now get in.
The patch notes for the latest PTU build emphasize a focus...
Choose My Adventure: Necro Kitty proves to be a reasonable Elder Scrolls Online tank
I've had some minor grouping experiences in The Elder Scrolls Online before. I was around for some of the game's early days when people were running through public delves, steamrolling through enemies at an absolute mad clip. And as I wrote earlier, I had some similar sort of experiences in the few public dungeons I've been in in Blackwood....
Blizzard recaps #SomeChanges coming in today’s WoW Classic’s Cataclysm prepatch
Everyone's long since given up on #NoChanges, right? We've all just accepted that World of Warcraft Classic was never #NoChanges and was always going to be #SomeChanges and that even the #NoChanges people were OK with dramatic #SomeChanges as long as they reinforced ahistorical narratives and/or gatekept undesirables? Fabulous, then we're all on the same page, and you'll want...
New World Q&A talks fresh start servers and regaining the trust of the community via quality
New World's Amazon crew is back with another Forged in Aeternum Q&A this week, headed up by game director Scot Lane and senior gameplay engineer Scott Geiser, who are joined by creative director David Verfaillie, and this one starts with a bit of bad news: This episode will mark the last Q&A before the big mystery announcement in June....
Blizzard laid off prolific World of Warcraft writer and lore queen Christie Golden
Among the many people affected by Blizzard's massive layoffs in 2024 was Christie Golden, the rare games writer whose name a whole lot of MMORPG players will recognize whether or not they play Blizzard games. That's because it's Christie Golden who penned 13 World of Warcraft and five StarCraft novels and worked with the IP for 25 years. Wowhead...
Lord of the Rings Online’s Update 40 pack is meant to be an alternative to city questing
The third round of testing for Lord of the Rings Online's Update 40 is underway this week, and players are starting to get a feel for how this patch will change their future questing options.
According to Standing Stone Games, the Neaths side quests are meant to be an alternative to going through Umbar if so desired: "With this content...
The Daily Grind: How do you define ‘old-school’ MMORPGs?
One of the topics that comes up every year come award time is how we decided which MMORPGs are old enough - whether by style or by age - to constitute being a "classic" MMO and therefore eligible for awards like "best classic MMO." Anybody telling you this is an easy call is lying, and you can spot it...
The Stream Team: Warframe’s Mastery Rank 11 jumping puzzle test
There' s a little flashing icon constantly taunting Massively OP's MJ in the upper right of her HUD in Warframe. It's a reminder that her Mastery test for rank 11 is still incomplete. The incomplete has nothing to do with the fact it's a jumping puzzle mixed with a bit of shooting. To dispel this wildly crazy notion, MJ...
Evercore Heroes, back from the dead, talks new game flow and the rationale for rebirth
Now that we know Evercore Heroes is returning from its competitive team vs. team PvE origin to a co-operative roguelike, there might be some people wondering how the game got to this point. If you're the sort who is looking for that kind of briefing directly from Vela Games, then this dev blog is for you.
As one might expect,...
Starbase returns from radio silence with plan for new navigation, territory control, and PvE
In May of last year, we expressed some concern about Starbase, the sci-fi crafting sandbox from Frozenbyte, particularly since it received little more than an itty-bitty patch in May of last year; after that, things have been mostly quiet past an announced in-game event last February. Now as we near the end of April, Frozenbyte has elected to awaken...
Reign of Guilds promises to expand dev headcount, seeks player patience in early access
When the PvP sandbox Reign of Guilds opened its early access doors at the beginning of this month, developer Atlant Games admitted that it wasn't quite as ready as it would like to be. Now that the game has been out in the wild for a few weeks, the studio is taking stock of it all and addressing what...
Bellwright’s first week of early access sees daily bug fixing and mostly positive reviews
It would appear that Donkey Crew knows it has eyes trained on it after its last shoulder shrug of an early access game launch: The co-op medieval survival sandbox of Bellwright, which went into early access last week, has been extremely busy over the past few days as it put forth bugfix patches every single day.
As one might expect,...
BitCraft shares an in-game preview of early skills and character progression
Since the month of April has been alpha testing month for sandbox MMORPG BitCraft, Clockwork Labs appears to be eager to continue showing off actual gameplay footage from within the build as opposed to earlier videos that were mostly featuring two dudes talking. So it continues with the game's latest peek, which highlights the early game's skills and progression.
Every...
The Quinfall demonstrates the utility and danger of player caravans on the landscape
If and when you find yourself exploring the world of The Quinfall, you're going to want to figure out how to get around efficiently -- all the more so if you are transporting valuable goods from one corner of the map to another. That's why Vawraek Technology published a five-minute video outlining how mounts and caravans will work in...
Viking-themed ‘survival tribe builder’ Aska enters early access June 20
It looks as if the self-described "multiplayer Viking survival tribe builder" Aska is ready to move forward from its latest closed beta into its new frontier, as it has confirmed plans to begin its early access on Steam on Thursday, June 20th.
For those who haven't been following along our coverage of this one, Aska sees up to four players...
