Yearly Archives: 2016
Landmark is giving new players a slice of pioneer territory
Being flat and featureless isn't always a bad thing. For example, if you're looking to build amazing structures without a lot of hassle from...
Make My MMO: Chronicles of Elyria’s $900k goal (March 5, 2016)
Indie MMO Chronicles of Elyria announced this week that it's plotting a May Kickstarter with a $900,000 goal. The game is probably best known...
Get hyped for The Division with these TV spots
"When society falls, we rise."
Are you ready for The Division? It's just a few short days until this entry into the Tom Clancy video game...
Path of Exile expansion popularity causes multiple realm crashes
The good news from this past Friday's Ascendancy expansion in Path of Exile? Apparently it broke the record of player numbers for the first...
Camelot Unchained: Picking flowers, rocking armor, crafting all the things
Camelot Unchained's latest dev update went up last night, and it's predictably dense. Along with the usual list of dev card updates, there's a...
Massively OP’s guide to MMORPG death penalties
In real life, when you die the penalty is... death. You just get that one go at things. But in MMOs, player characters are...
WildStar systems lead Brett Scheinert leaves Carbine
WildStar is one fewer dev strong today now that Multiplayer Systems Lead Brett "Timetravel" Scheinert has left Carbine Studios. He had been with the company since...
WRUP: Is your house robot-proof edition
Is your house robot-proof, dear reader? No. No, it isn't. Of course it isn't! You have never given a single thought to robot-proofing your...
The Daily Grind: What neglected MMO sandbox features do you crave?
Every time I see a new sandbox title cross the news feed, I could probably close my eyes and rattle off a fairly accurate...
Betawatch: Camelot Unchained hits the beta crunch (March 4, 2016)
The Camelot Unchained team is in the midst of a hard crunch period to get the game ready for full beta testing. The good...
Mobile MU: Origins starts second closed beta
For the next three days, the upcoming mobile version of MU Online -- called MU: Origins -- will be running another closed beta. This...
League of Legends’ next character is an evil world-crushing space dragon
You can read headlines, can't you? League of Legends has released a trailer for its next character. It's a dragon. An evil dragon that...
Guild Wars 2’s Colin Johanson leaves ArenaNet; Mike O’Brien takes over as game director
Game director Colin Johanson has been with ArenaNet on Guild Wars 2 for quite some time now, but nothing lasts forever. New game director...
A look at the loot due in Neverwinter’s Maze Engine expansion
Neverwinter's latest dev blog zeroes in on the most important thing in any MMORPG: the players. Just kidding! It's loot.
The Maze Engine expansion will...
The Black Death’s latest trailer highlights merchants and housing
What would a medieval sandbox be without merchants to make money off of all the plague-ridden peasants?
If you said nowhere, then today's Black Death...
The Stream Team: Airlifting ARK’s dinos
Now that MassivelyOP's MJ and the tribe have a quetzal at their disposal, it's time to show off what this behemoth can do. Because...
World of Fishing aims for Steam’s casuals, hardcores, and MMO lovers
Why take up fishing in a traditional MMO when you can take up fishing in a fishing MMO? World of Fishing aims to be...
City of Titans has pubbed video of its ‘functional first pass’ build
City of Heroes-inspired superhero indie MMO City of Titans has hit a major milestone this week: It's created its "first packaged executable that ...
Giveaway: Warframe Sands of Inaros booster keys from Digital Extremes and MOP [All gone now!]
A huge new update lands in online shooter Warframe today:
Sands of Inaros reaches PC players today with a brand-new mummy-themed Warframe, a new quest,...
Steam users finally receive notification about Christmas breach
Remember back on Christmas Day, when some folks were opening gifts and others were unwittingly opening the Steam accounts of other users? We do....
