Chris Neal
UK government will ‘consider legislation’ unless game companies add parental controls to lootboxes
The UK's Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) has seen enough evidence related to the harm that lootboxes have on children and...
Star Citizen talks about alpha 3.17.2 features and overall persistent universe development
There's another Star Citizen Live video and this one is unsurprisingly about the alpha 3.17.2 patch that's coming to Star Citizen at some point...
Black Desert PC unveils the Drakania awakening, takes entries for invite-only ‘early access’ on July 22
It was only a matter of time until the recently introduced Drakania class of Black Desert got her awakening, and that time is fast...
Old School RuneScape previews its Tombs of Amascut raid
If you're a regular follower of developments for Old School RuneScape, you have probably seen the many, many, many preview posts for the upcoming...
The Stream Team: The continuing adventures of a Guild Wars 2 neophyte Elementalist
MOP's Chris is coming back once again with some more Guild Wars 2 leveling of his freshly minted Elementalist. This time around, he's breaking...
Halo Infinite’s campaign co-op is available for testing until August 1
Playing with friends is fun - and it's the crux of the kinds of experiences we report on here - but most of the...
World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight alpha removes gendered body type text, briefly adds selectable pronouns
There are a lot of features present in the first alpha test of World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, but one feature that wasn't highlighted directly...
Embers Adrift catches followers up with beta progress in latest video
If you haven't been following up on the weekly discussion and gameplay preview livestreams coming from Embers Adrift (or you have other things to...
Kakao Games invests in Korean studio Redlab Games to create a play-to-earn mobile MMO
Kakao Games is looking to dive deeper into the play-to-earn cesspool, it appears. The publisher has reportedly invested an undisclosed amount into Korean studio...
Way of the Hunter is a multiplayer hunting sim arriving to PC and console August 16
If you're the sort who wants to hunt for wild game but isn't too keen on the actual killing of animals, or if you...
Destiny 2 celebrates summer as Bungie addresses healthcare, racial justice, and its acquisition by Sony
We're deep into the summertime here in the northern hemisphere, and Destiny 2 is preparing to mark the season by bringing back its Solstice...
The Stream Team: Creating horrible monstrous abominations in Chimeraland
There's a newly launched MMO called Chimeraland that we've been covering for a little while now, and in it players can apparently consume creatures...
Dauntless adds a new Behemoth variant, new hunt passes, and more legendary lantern amps
Have you ever wanted to fight an ambulatory crystalline mountain? Want to? Now you can in the latest patch of Dauntless, which has the...
Sea of Thieves delays Season 7’s release to August 4 in the interest of applying polish and tightening tech
Last month saw Sea of Thieves make a whole lot of noise about Captaincy arriving to Season 7 - the game even made a...
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen shows off locations, mineral nodes, and terrain improvements
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen has got a whole smorgasbord of eye candy to share in its most recent video update, with nearly 50...
Star Citizen hypes up extra alpha 3.17.2 features in forum posts as it crests 4M created accounts
The weeks leading up to Star Citizen's alpha 3.17.2 release (whenever that may be) have been peppered with weekly hype posts by CIG, which...
Retro dungeon crawling MMO Mythic makes its free demo Mythic Origins fully available
Last month the MMO Mythic crossed our desk; it's a retro-styled roguelite MMO that promised an "infinite procedurally generated labyrinth" full of puzzles, monsters,...
Embers Adrift discusses crafting refinement and role/weapon combinations
Embers Adrift is once again eager to share more talk about talking. The sandbox MMORPG has put out its regular livestream that's chock-full of...
ArcheAge makes it easier to breathe underwater, harder to kick people from dungeons
It's the sad fact of life that sometimes you're going to need to punt someone from your dungeon PUG. Maybe you've got an aggressive...
SMITE’s midseason update adds Nickelodeon cartoon skins as pros and fans agitate for in-person esports
SMITE players of a certain age might be taken with the MOBA's midseason update, which has the centerpiece of several Nickelodeon cartoon character skins...