Monthly Archives: April 2015
Lord of the Rings Online announces 8th anniversary awards
Lord of the Rings Online turns -- wow -- eight years old this month, which means that the game is not only throwing an...
RIFT’s Echoes of Madness update arrives on April 15
RIFT players salivating for Update 3.2 won't have much longer to go: Trion Worlds announced that Echoes of Madness will be launching on Wednesday,...
EverQuest II’s latest forum and Reddit drama
EverQuest II players concerned about alleged excessive forum moderation after a suspension of one of the community's more prominent supporters and the studio focus...
MMO Mechanics: How strong communities are barriers-to-exit
MMOs occupy a unique position in our game libraries because they include a wide range of clever mechanics that keep us logging in day...
One Shots: Early morning ride
It's been a long tradition (from before my tenure) to use a black-and-white version of the first picture of the week for the header...
The Daily Grind: What sort of characters do you have a tendency to play?
As a roleplayer, I have a lot of different character types that I've played, lots of different archetypes and the like. However, taking any...
Make My MMO: April 11, 2015
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, we said goodbye to Descent Underground's fundraising campaign. It was a fond farewell, though, since the sci-fi space shooter reboot topped...
World of Tanks turns four, celebrates with XP and cash shop discounts
Did you know that World of Tanks is celebrating its launch anniversary this weekend? Yep, it is, and Wargaming is throwing a fourth birthday bash...
NCsoft invests $5 million in Canadian mobile studio
Is NCsoft scaling back its western MMO operations to focus on mobile development? That's the takeaway from reports at VentureBeat and Gamasutra concerning the...
Final Fantasy XIV Heavensward’s spoiler-filled trailer
We're going to tell you this right up front: if you haven't yet done the patch 2.55 story quests and don't want to be...
The Stream Team: Giving away more Guild Wars 2
What? Massively OP's MJ has another copy of Guild Wars 2 to give away, you say? And this is a deluxe edition? Well hot...
The Game Archaeologist: Roleplaying dreams in Underlight
After years of digging into the field of classic MMOs, I know there aren't too many undiscovered titles that haven't been brought to my attention...
Star Citizen releases alpha 1.1.1 and a design blog on breathing
Cloud Imperium had a busy Friday, as the firm released Star Citizen Alpha 1.1.1 to backers and also published a couple of notable blog entries....
WRUP: Hourly content update edition
Over the past few years, we've seen developers fall more and more in love with the idea of making faster and smaller updates to...
Champions Online leaves Cryptic North for Cryptic Studios
Big (but not bad) news for Champions Online: The superhero title is relocating along with its team back to its original development studio.
Senior Game...
The Daily Grind: What promised yet undelivered feature sticks in your craw?
There are few things more annoying than a developer promoting an upcoming feature or change and then never delivering on it. Four expansions later,...
Betawatch: April 10th, 2015
Would you like to talk about Black Desert? Stuff's happening with the game. You can learn how to hunt whales, white or otherwise, and...
Cabal 2 has a leather class fetish
Don't you dare think for a second how strange it is that MMOs segregate the player population not by who they are but by...
Sci-fi shooter Project Genom begins alpha testing
Why can't intergalactic colonization ever go smoothly? There always seems to be at least one continent-shattering war that has to happen before the first...
Hearthstone unlocks Molten Core wing
Hearthstone players will be treated to a blast from the past this week by visiting Molten Core as part of the Blackrock Mountain adventure...