Elite Dangerous rolls out The Guardians expansion today - Elite Dangerous is busy rolling out The Guardians expansion today, free for folks who already own the Horizons season pass ($29.99 on Steam) and featuring multi-person crewing, NPC ferrying, new…
Shroud of the Avatar explains its skill decay death penalty - These days, most MMO players don't think about death penalties as much more than a time and/or small repair cost for gear. When it comes to Shroud of the Avatar,…
Star Citizen dishes on alpha 2.6 progress and procedural planets - This week's Star Citizen Around the Verse is ostensibly a check-in with the Frankfurt team, but there's quite a bit of teasing for 2.6 as well. "Alpha 2.6 has been…
Shroud of the Avatar delivers Release 35 to everyone - Remember back when Shroud of the Avatar's releases contained mostly line items like "implemented the most basic form of crafting" and "included a single wolf you can fight with your…
Hero’s Song schedules alpha launch for next Monday, followed by early access in November - While Hero's Song might not have raised as much money with its recent Indiegogo campaign as the studio hoped, players who did pay $15 or more into the game did…
Creating Crowfall is ‘part exploration and part iteration’ - Despite what some players might assume, developers do not begin with a game design document that can and will never be changed. It's a fluid process that, as Crowfall's J.…
Dogma: Eternal Night on project funding and making NPCs come alive through dialogue - Dogma: Eternal Night has a new dev blog out this week on something a lot of people never notice because they're too busy clicking past it: dialogue windows. In roleplay…
Divergence Online survival sandbox prequel Divergence: Year Zero hits Steam early access - Stained Glass Llama, the studio behind indie sci-fi sandbox Divergence Online, has put that game's infrastructure to work in a brand-new game that launched last week on Steam's early access platform.…
Shroud of the Avatar reworks its roving encounter system - There are plenty of dramatic combat scenes in Shroud of the Avatar with a defined purpose, but bandits and wolves are rarely polite enough to simply wait their turns and…
Chronicles of Elyria on layaway, weather, customization, and pants - "While the pants look a little silly, they do go to show you how much customization is possible with the crafting system," says Chronicles of Elyria's latest Kickstarter update about gear…
Gloria Victis overhauls animations, promises playable female characters ‘soon’ - Gloria Victis has a new video out today showcasing its overhauled combat and movement animations, done by one of the animators who worked on Geralt's animations in The Witcher 3.…
‘MMO-lite’ Tuebor makes plans to move from Steam early access to launch - "Tuebor is a 3rd person, cross-genre, competitive, multiplayer, action game set in a post apocalyptic, dystopian future." So reads the Kickstarter for Strength in Numbers Studios' "MMO lite" Tuebor. Unfortunately,…