Yearly Archives: 2016
Betawatch: Eternal Crusade’s entry into early access (January 29th, 2016)
In the grim darkness of the future, there is no more launch or beta or alpha testing, just early access for eternity. Fortunately, Eternal...
Camelot Unchained’s new website is live
The Camelot Unchained team was back to work to work this week, confirming that City State's brand-new (and much more mobile-friendly) website is up and...
Crossout enters its next phase of testing complete with factions
If you've ever played a game focused around vehicle combat and thought "hey, this would be better with Mad Max-style customized war vehicles," you...
Get Fractured Space for free on Steam this weekend
If you desire something a little different than the standard fantasy fare in your next MOBA, you can give Fractured Space a spin for...
The Secret World increases membership rewards
Today's Streaming Ones dev livestream announced a big change coming to The Secret World's membership benefits in February. Game Director Romain “Tilty” Amiel emphasized...
Skyforge’s next major update makes sweeping changes to the Resistance system
Knowledge may or may not be power in the real world, but it's certainly a powerful part of Skyforge in the next major update....
H1Z1 lets its zombies dress themselves
Zombies aren't known to be on the cutting edge of fashion -- more like the rotting fringe, if you ask us. Still, they want...
How MMO studios wield ‘YouTube influencers’
Kotaku has posted what it's calling "a behind-the-scenes peek at what it looks like when YouTubers shill for game companies." Perfect World Entertainment, well-known to...
ARK adds a trio of new creatures and SWAT gear
Prehistoric animals continue to stomp, run, and scamper into ARK: Survival Evolved. The survival title will be adding three new creatures over the next couple of...
Giveaway: Pick up a Forsaken World Volos pet and gift pack from PWE and MOP
Forsaken World's latest expansion, Awakening, went live earlier this week, and to celebrate, Perfect World has granted Massively OP a thousand key bundles to hand...
Blade & Soul plagued by chat bugs after maintenance
NCsoft's Blade & Soul is having a rough maintenance day.
Players are reporting numerous issues since the game's latest update, most relating to chat. Earlier today, the...
WoW Factor: Why Legion’s alpha/beta label is a hair worth splitting
The Legion alpha is back, and it is still an alpha. And I want to to stress, not for the first time, that I...
Waitlisted for The Division’s beta? ‘Check back tomorrow,’ says Ubisoft
Were you assuming that handing over a stack of cash would secure your spot in The Division's beta this weekend? Well, that much is...
Star Wars: The Old Republic’s story stream talks about resuming romance and future story developments
The next chapter of Knights of the Fallen Empire is coming out in early February, and it's reintroducing a major character to players of...
Marvel Heroes 2016 launches today with new story chapter, visual updates
Marvel Heroes is about to reinvent itself as Marvel Heroes 2016. And it's even 2016! What a coincidence!
Launching today, the upgrade will download for...
Trove makes major business model adjustments
RIFT isn't the only game under Trion Worlds' umbrella that's reevaluating and adjusting its business model to become more profitable. Yesterday, the Trove team...
Divergence Online abandons Steam sales over ongoing review harassment
Update: We have continued our reporting on this story here.
Yesterday, an eagle-eyed reader noticed that Divergence Online had seemingly been pulled from Steam and...
The Daily Grind: Could a time travel MMO work?
A week or so ago, we reported on the release of an eastern title called Dark Era that was largely unremarkable save for the...
Modders turn Fallout: New Vegas into an online co-op game
Fans of the Fallout series have been asking for an MMO or online game for years, and there was much disappointment online when the legal dispute between Bethesda...
Massively Overthinking: The cynicism of modern MMO Kickstarters
This week we've been abuzz about Smed's Hero's Song Kickstarter cancellation - the KS more than the game, mostly because the game is happening...
