Monthly Archives: April 2015
Fantasy city-builder Elvenar launches
Sometimes you reach a moment in your life where you have to take a side. With the launch of the fantasy city-builder Elvenar today,...
Diablo III’s Patch 2.2.0 adds and improves items
Health potions are one of the core elements of Diablo III, but they're not actually interesting to stock up on. The game has thus...
WoW Token prices fall on the first day of operation
Have you been holding on to your hat during the first day of WoW Token sales? Did you think that 30,000 gold was a...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Four fabulous Guild Wars 2 vistas worth visting
Guild Wars 2 makes me tick because the creatives at ArenaNet have laid such a unique and amazingly vast world at my character's feet, filled with...
Wurm Online player deified, founds a religion
What have you done with your online life lately? We bet you haven't ascended to godhood and convinced other players to follow a new...
Lineage II’s Infinite Odyssey expansion coming this month
Mark your calendars, Lineage II fans, because on April 22nd you're getting a new expansion. It's called Infinite Odyssey and it will coincide with...
Skyforge’s beta is surprisingly satisfying
I can safely say that what I got when I first fired up Skyforge was not, in fact, what I had been hoping I...
Phantasy Star Online 2 has a crossover with Tales of Zestiria
One of Phantasy Star Online 2's big hooks is doing crossovers with other major game franchises. The latest of these mashups is with Bandai...
Ghost in the Shell Online shows off game modes and characters
The first beta test for Ghost in the Shell Online is just around the corner, and it's going to feature a lot of shooting....
Here’s how to jury-rig a VR alternative for Elite: Dangerous
If you've had dreams of flying spaceships in the third dimension but were too poor to afford an Oculus Rift, then one clever gamer...
Beta players are welcomed back to a freebie Elder Scrolls Online weekend
The Elder Scrolls Online would like beta players who never bought the game to come back and see the game in its new buy-to-play...
WildStar shows off its next raid, Initialization Core Y-83
WildStar is bringing a new raid into the game, Initialization Core Y-83, and it's pretty different from its previous raids. Not fond of attunement...
Sanctions force World of Warcraft, Diablo III ban in Crimea
When gamers are caught in the crossfire of international politics, bad things can happen.
Due to US sanctions against Russia, World of Warcraft and Diablo...
The Daily Grind: Where do you stand on MMO emulators?
Emulators. They're a touchy, murky, grey-area subject for many people and one that we don't touch on a lot here on the site due...
Global Chat: Are MMO players too mean to game developers?
Is it too easy to forget that MMOs, like all video games, are made by people just like you and I? Belghast over at...
Neverwinter’s Elemental Evil is now available, insert Minsc and Boo joke here
For some reason it feels like we've been writing about Minsc and Boo for months. In any case, I guess we haven't been writing...
New Ascent patch has gas, terraforming
Sometimes a news post comes along that you're just meant to write. For me, it's this little ditty about Ascent. For one thing, I'm...
DCUO releases new munitions power set
DC Universe Online released its 13th power set today. Munitions "allows players to master over-the-top explosives, powerful ballistics, and large weapons," according to a...
EVE Online fan calculates an 18% drop in subscriptions
There used to be a time when CCP would eagerly release every new subscriber milestone that EVE Online hit, but that era has passed....
GamersFirst is patching APB’s Easter event ‘bad experiences’
GamersFirst has posted a brief blurb on the heels of last Thursday's APB Reloaded patch. The devs are responding to player feedback and, more...