Monthly Archives: May 2015

Telwyn at GamingSF asks a question that I've contemplated from time to time: When an MMO gets a sequel, what happens to the original...

Keen Software House has added multiplayer functionality to Medieval Engineers. What's Medieval Engineers? It's the firm's followup to Space Engineers, an enormously successful Minecraft-meets-space-survival...

Did you know that tomorrow is EVE Online's 12th anniversary? It's pretty old! And as is the tradition these days, the developers are celebrating...

Dota 2's International prize purse is approaching $6 million, thanks to crowdfunding efforts centered around the "Compendium," a virtual level treadmill that rewards purchasers with...

If you just saw The Avengers: Age of Ultron and got pumped up over superheroes, then you would do well to take that energy...

Remember Riot's Tribunal? Back in 2011 it was put forth as a possible antidote to toxic player behavior in League of Legends. Three years later,...

All right, bear with us here. We're not great at math at Massively Overpowered. But as it stands, Hearthstone has apparently hit 30 million...

Heroes of Newerth has a new owner, but Michigan-based Garena subsidiary Frostburn Studios says that the five-year old MOBA's 30 million registered players will be...

Justin, Bree, and Eliot from Cards Against Humanity discuss SWTOR's Ziost update, Daybreak's emu deal, the Guild Wars saga, ArcheAge's patch, and Darkfall's retcon, plus mail on MMO mistakes and replacing CoH. Bonus: Justin's Kickstarter tribute song!

Elite: Dangerous players are in the midst of an ARG based around in-game artifacts that were tracked down by a coordinated community effort. Producer...

You know what we miss about birthday parties from when we were kids? That the guest of honor would typically get presents for everyone...

Not every online game can be a winner, but even losers have their purpose as comedy fodder for the tongue-in-cheek player. YouTube comedian TheHiveLeader took...

You have not played enough of Crowfall to form an opinion on how it plays. You haven't. It isn't playable yet. But that doesn't...

TERA fans have been anticipating the game's newest class for a while now -- and today, it's here. Patch 31.04 debuts the Gunner, a...

Happy Revenge of the Fifth! Because this column comes out on Tuesday, I'm a wee bit behind on wishing you a happy Star Wars...

When competing factions end up crashing a space station into the earth and triggering a nuclear war, the result is a hotbed of action,...

After riding a roller coaster of delays the last couple of weeks, Landmark fans can finally hop off with this bit of good news:...

Could it be that Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is starting to look... really pretty? A new in-game screenshot of Avendyr's Pass shows how...

Today's lesson is that you shouldn't cheat in online games. Alas, a Guild Wars 2 character had to die to provide this valuable information...

Do you want a pet? Do you want to take on some contracts? Are you excited to play around with an expanded wardrobe? Is...