Chris Neal
Book of Travels fixes ‘weird’ lamp posts, invisible endeavors, and NPCs walking away from conversations
It's generally bad manners to walk away from someone while they're interacting with you, and that's doubly so for NPCs in Book of Travels...
Elite Dangerous seeks the ‘thoughts and feelings’ of players about the ongoing Thargoid War
How do you feel about the aliens that are attacking the galaxy of Elite: Dangerous? In a gameplay sense, not necessarily about the aliens...
Ubisoft’s third quarter report sees sales up, net bookings down, and live games ‘perform solidly’
The third quarter report for 2022-2023 from Ubisoft is out, and it has some interesting figures for armchair financial followers, as well as some...
Roblox ends 2022 with over $2 billion in revenue but nearly $1 billion in net losses
The 2022 fiscal year has wrapped up for Roblox, and once again it's a year of contradiction, as the company reported over $2 billion...
Subreddit founder who started the 2021 Gamestonk craze sues Reddit over his ouster
One of the many, many weird stories to come out of 2021 was the one about Gamestonk, a memelord-led stock market charge that ballooned...
Star Citizen focuses on the creation and integration of lore in latest dev stream
This past Friday saw yet another developer broadcast from Star Citizen release for the lore hounds of the space sandbox, as several members of...
Diablo III’s next season launches Friday with skill tree-granting altars
The end of January saw public testing of Diablo III's Season 28 get underway, but if you missed that testing window then you can...
Valheim confirms a March 14 early access release to Xbox consoles
Have you looked in jealous contempt at Valheim's upcoming hat toggle because you play on the Xbox One or Xbox X|S systems? Do you...
The Stream Team: Heading into the new hunting grounds of Wild Hearts
MOP's Chris hasn't really met a giant monster hunting game he didn't like, and just last week saw a new one arrive in the...
The Elder Scrolls Online previews Necrom’s Arcanist class in action in latest video
We're still plucking out the juicy bits from IGN's Fanfest trailerpalooza from last weekend (juicy to us and our readers, anyway), which brings us...
Guild Wars 2 disables, then re-enables, its WvW objective scaling rewards system during a live test
Earlier this week, Guild Wars 2 wanted to run a test for WvW that involved an objective scaling rewards system that was intended to...
Closers continues to celebrate its fifth anniversary and announces plans for a mobile version
The five year anniversary celebration of Closers, which first kicked off in late January, is continuing on with a second round of festivities still...
Natural Selection 2 enters maintenance mode, Spellbreak returns as an official ‘community version’
We once more have to report on some semi-sunsets in our corner of the gaming sphere, although as the headline suggests, it's not all...
The Stream Team: Reacclimating to Star Citizen after months of hardware hiatus
MOP's Chris hasn't had the opportunity to actively play Star Citizen on account of his machine not being exactly up to scratch. Thanks to...
Mobile co-op multiplayer RPG Echoes of Mana announces a May 15 sunset
Echoes of Mana is not a game that we've really touched on here but it does fall within our sphere of interest: The mobile...
Genshin Impact brings back a spring festival and adds two new characters to the roster March 1
Before you know it, spring will be in bloom in our portion of the globe, but players of Genshin Impact will know that the...
Star Citizen plots its next steps for server meshing by way of a multi-day in-house dev summit
Star Citizen creative lead Jared Huckaby knows what's up: In this week's episode of Inside Star Citizen, he girds viewers' loins for the video's...
Destiny 2 runs down Lightfall’s new ritual weapon, character boosts, interactive trailer, and 24-hour maintenance
Lightfall looms ever closer to the horizon of Destiny 2, which naturally means that the game's weekly newsletter is once more all about the...
Post-apoc shooter MMO Ashfall targets a 15 day-long open beta window for the second quarter
If you've been following the development track of Ashfall, you know that news has been primarily about offering gameplay previews and not too much...
Team Fortress 2 promises ‘a full-on update-sized update’ for its next summer event
By all accounts, Team Fortress 2 is just another cog in Valve's wider automatic money printing machine, devoid of any of those pesky things...