Yearly Archives: 2016
Choose My Adventure: Crafting catastrophes and dungeon doldrums in Blade & Soul
Hello, friends, and welcome to the fourth and final installment of Choose My Adventure with Blade & Soul. Last week, as you may recall...
Final Fantasy XIV adds David Bowie Easter egg to latest patch
If you have the vaguest interest in music whatsoever, you were probably a bit heartbroken when David Bowie passed away in January. The man...
SamuTale lets you explore a sandbox world as a samurai
"Boundaries" and "limitations" are not words that the makers of SamuTale like to incorporate into their design philosophy. This upcoming sandbox MMO seems to...
Dungeons and Dragons Online starts its 10th anniversary celebration
All hail Dungeons and Dragons Online, which is now being inducted into the MMO 10 Years Club! To celebrate a decade of the game's...
Black Death pushes back its early release
Hope you weren't expecting to contract the virtual bubonic plague any time soon. The grim medieval survival game The Black Death announced yesterday that...
Neverwinter enhances its mount system with stables and insignias
You can always tell when a Neverwinter content release is nigh, as Cryptic will unleash a flurry of dev blogs. The latest? A look...
The Daily Grind: What MMO had the best revision to an existing system?
There have been very few total relaunches in MMO history, so marking Final Fantasy XIV as having one of the best isn't exactly disputed....
League of Legends introduces mobile friend app, standardizes penalties
Why else do you play League of Legends if not to make friends? And when you attain such friends, isn't it important to be...
The Stream Team: Killing all the Coyotles in HEX’s Castle Crayburn
As MassivelyOP's MJ works her way through HEX's PvE campaign, she's constantly running into those horrid Coyotles. Last time, her battle may have taken...
Battle Bards Episode 69: FFXIV Heavensward
The Battle Bards are taking an airship back to Eorzea to cover the soundtrack to the first expansion to Final Fantasy XIV, Heavensward. How...
Allods Online’s New Order will be broken up into four seasons
Does anyone else find it slightly ominous that the Russian-created Allods Online has an update coming out called "New Order?" Will all MMOs soon...
Trinium Wars bringing three classes out for its early access next week
Trinium Wars is preparing to kick off its early access program next week on March 2nd. When prospective players take their first steps into...
The Repopulation spinoff Fragmented is hunting for a few good testers
The Repopulation lead dev Joshua Halls says that Above & Beyond has opened closed testing for Fragmented to selected applicants. Interested gamers should fill...
Daybreak walks a fine line with EverQuest II’s TLE server
A developer update on the status and future of EverQuest II's time-locked expansion server illuminates some of the difficulties that the team is facing...
ArcheAge’s February update brings costume sythesis and a tougher Mistsong Summit
It might not be the largest content update that's ever graced ArcheAge, but the game's February update does have a few items of note...
Camelot Unchained’s Mark Jacobs explains CSE’s Beta 1 ‘hard crunch’
City State Entertainment has announced on its livestream that it's entering a "hard crunch" mode to deliver RvR-centric crowdfunded MMORPG Camelot Unchained according to...
Celebrate Crowfall’s Kickstarter birthday by plastering its logo in the real world
A year ago, Crowfall ran its successful Kickstarter. Now that it's been a year, the team behind the game wants to commemorate the event,...
WildStar’s PvP plan means server consolidation on PvE worlds
WildStar Game Director Chad "Pappy" Moore has big plans for reigniting the PvP flame in the beleaguered sci-fi MMO. "Increasingly over time the majority...
Scarlet Blade will sunset next month
We're genuinely sorry to report that Aeria Games has announced an impending closure for the notoriously suggestive MMORPG Scarlet Blade. Aeria broke the sad news earlier today:
"Scarlet...
The Division releases 60 FPS trailer, doom simulator ‘Collapse’
Let's get that Division hype rolling! Ubisoft has posted a new trailer showcasing the game's visual quality in 60 frames per second. Not impressed by graphics...
