PAX West 2017: Ship of Heroes on exploration, community, and recapturing the magic of City of Heroes - Sometimes MMORPG players might get the feeling that game companies will let just about anything slide in order to keep the most revenue streaming in, but that's not the case…
PAX West 2017: Dual Universe demos its persistent, seamless, sandbox universe - If you were hoping that another title would pick up the idea of a voxel world and run with it, you're getting your wish. I met with Jean-Christophe Baillie, the…
Pantheon’s visionary perception system explained - You might have heard that Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is being developed to reflect an older era of MMORPG design and to rethink many of the modern systems that…
City of Titans plans 2017 pre-alpha, crowdfund to ‘take things to the next level’ - City of Titans studio Missing Worlds Media has just posted a recap of its presentation at last week's PAX West and a status update on the game. "For City of…
No, Star Citizen’s 3.0 alpha isn’t ready yet, but here’s how to ‘breathe’ while you wait - 3.0 when? We still don't know. Star Citizen's Eric Kieron Davis begins the latest Around the Verse with a Burndown segment, noting that the team's reduced the must-fix list down…
Camelot Unchained wows DragonCon attendees with thousands of battling bots - Camelot Unchained wasn't in attendance at PAX West last week, but it had a good reason: The team was at DragonCon instead for a presentation of its large-scale battles. So…
AdventureQuest 3D revamps the Greenguard Forest - Even as AdventureQuest 3D continues to press forward with its development, it hasn't resisted looking back to see what older content could use a dose of revise-and-revamp. Next on the…
Crowfall explains the concepts behind skill trees and time banks - Do you like dragging yourself out of bed at three in the morning because something has finished in a game and you need to immediately address it? Probably not. That…
Choose My Adventure: Many kinds of lost in Shroud of the Avatar - One of the first things I did in Shroud of the Avatar was get kind of lost. The last week's activities were largely similar. Only now, it was a different…
Shroud of the Avatar is running another free trial until September 27 - Curious about Shroud of the Avatar but not curious enough to drop money on the title first? Now you can try it out and save your cash, as the game…
MMORTS War of Conquest is live on Kickstarter now - Are you eager to form a nation, fight your friends, and wage a war of conquest across the land? Then perhaps you'd like to check out War of Conquest on…
Albion Online alters resource respawns and rune rewards - Resources matter in Albion Online, and major changes to the respawn rates of resources is going to shake up the game's economy significantly. The latest patch to the game (live…
Worlds Adrift patches its free Island Creator, releases founder packs today - MMO builder types, today's Worlds Adrift update is aimed squarely at you. Bossa Studios just released a massive update to the Island Creator -- that's the world-building tool that is…
OrbusVR is bringing market stalls and messages to its second closed beta - Thus far when playing OrbusVR, players have had no ability to send private messages to one another. As a result, you've had to rely on context clues; perhaps your friend…
PAX West 2017: Watch the full Ashes of Creation panel - This past weekend at PAX West, Ashes of Creation made sure to drop a few announcement bombs on its community that showed up to check out and support the game.…
Shroud of the Avatar rolls out R45, in spite of losing a week of work due to a software bug - Shroud of the Avatar rolled out another release on Thursday, imbuing the game's 45th update with what it's calling a huge amount of work on worldbuilding, including The Sword of…
PAX West 2017: Ashes of Creation documents its event showing - We have to admit that after years of MMOs being downgraded on the exhibit floor of PAX, it's great to see some titles getting a nice showing this year at…
PAX West 2017: Ship of Heroes’ demo trailer outlines testing for 2017 and 2018 - During the superhero MMO panel last night, Ship of Heroes' CEO, Casey McGeever, demoed the game in a new trailer that heralded several announcements for the game: It's planning a…