Yearly Archives: 2016
Starcraft’s Dehaka is on deck for Heroes of the Storm
Primal Zerg pack leader Dehaka is looking to extend his galactic conquest by invading Heroes of the Storm. The legendary character is currently being...
The Stream Team: Dishing out keys to open Das Tal’s alpha doors
Last time MassivelyOP's MJ delved into Das Tal, she was giving away alpha keys. And that's precisely what she's going to do this time...
Camelot Unchained’s new patcher, Friday Night Fight Nights, and new pics
Camelot Unchained's weekly update has arrived, and the team is still crunching away. Mark Jacobs delivers news on several ongoing projects:
An early alpha version...
WRUP: Camp in a lake of fire edition
Go camp in a lake of fire. Go find a lake of fire and camp there. Not on the shore, on the lake itself....
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best character creation process?
I don't know about you, but I love a great character creation segment before getting into any RPG or MMORPG. Don't rush me; let...
See Andy Serkis mimic zero gee for Squadron 42
There's a theory out there that Andy Serkis was actually born in a full motion-capture suit as part of an educational series for expectant...
Betawatch: Landmark is getting storytelling and further wipes (March 18, 2016)
The loss of EverQuest Next is bad news, but Landmark appears to be poised to absorb the strength of its fallen sibling with its...
The Stream Team: Facing Path of Exile’s first Ascendancy trial
MassivelyOP's MJ got to sneak into Path of Exile's new Labyrinth courtesy of the alpha server, but now she has to earn the right to...
Diablo III polishes legendary gems in next update
Blizzard's all-seeing eye has turned its attention to legendary gems as one of the foci of the upcoming Diablo III Patch 2.4.1. Basically, the...
Das Tal’s ‘March Mayhem’ alpha event kicks off today
Das Tal has implemented a big patch just in time for its long-planned March Mayhem test event.
The patch focuses on resource distribution intended to...
Star Citizen touches base with all of its teams’ progress
You know those NASA-type movies where the flight director pings all the various departments looking for updates on whether or not to launch? Well,...
Guild Wars 2 team streams ‘Building Online Spaces for a Massive Community’ panel from SXSW
If you're not at GDC or SXSW this week, then you might be feeling a bit left out of the video game industry hoopla,...
ARK poop as planned suicide, and new dinos will add to the pile
If you learn nothing else today, you'll have this: ARK: Survival Evolved's poop was designed as a suicide measure. Seriously. According to Studio Wildcard...
Landmark’s next big update arrives Monday, wipes claims and characters
Daybreak has been amping up communication about Landmark this past week following the news that it's plotting a spring launch for the sandvox MMO...
Perfect Ten: Why MMORPG studios don’t just reboot their games
Last Friday's WildStar news made me sad. I'm sad because there are two games at war within that title. One of them is a...
Earthrise: First Impact rears up on Steam Greenlight
Hands up if anyone here remembers Earthrise. The post-apocalyptic MMO had a disappointing run from 2011 to 2012, ending with its closing by Masthead Studios due...
The Division promises that a new update is coming next week
After many delays, The Division is out and in the hands of players everywhere. The development team has posted a quick state of the...
Pantheon hopes to ‘bring back the magic’ of classic MMOs ‘without the tedium’
Gamers Nexus has a timely video interview with Pantheon's Brad McQuaid that might allay the fears of those watching the development of his old-school MMO.
"The main...
See the new Warcraft movie trailer and poster
Warcraft's June 10th movie premiere is coming a lot faster than you'd think, and the promotion machine for the fantasy film is well underway....
Black Desert is working on ghillie suit countermeasures
Community Q&A sessions are pretty popular these days, but usually they involve developers selecting questions and parceling the answers out accordingly. This Black Desert...
