Chris Neal
Wolfy is totally a pink wolf and not someone who just adores his avatar so much that he's lost touch with reality. He's been playing games since the days of Atari 2600 and when PCs had to be booted up in a specific sequence. He can be found in a variety of different MMOs and multiplayer games, including Final Fantasy XIV, Dauntless, Black Desert, and many others.
Palworld vows to keep servers online ‘without regard to cost’ (despite monthly cost of nearly half a million dollars)
Getting professional server hosting for an online multiplayer title ain't cheap, and that holds true for Palworld developer Pocketpair, which is paying out the...
Final Fantasy XIV’s open beta for Xbox X|S starts February 21 – here’s how to get in
This time it's for real instead of a mistakenly early announcement: The Xbox X|S open beta test for Final Fantasy XIV has locked down...
The Stream Team: Moving a first timer through the next round of Final Fantasy XIV’s Pandaemonium raid
MOP's Chris is once again helping a friend through Final Fantasy XIV content! Last week he and his husband joined their good friend Ollie...
NosTale prepares for more Undercity, specialist card tweaks, and possible server merges in the first half of 2024
Yes, even a smaller MMO like NosTale is kicking out roadmap jams here in the first months of 2024, which makes for a very...
Sky Children of the Light’s Days of Fortune returns with dragon costumes and races to mark the Lunar New Year
The Lunar New Year celebrations are continuing to proliferate across MMO and multiplayer titles, and that includes the more upbeat multiplayer world of Sky:...
Open Perpetuum is bringing land mines, new weapons, and T4 balancing sometime in ‘Marchish’
Markish your calendarsh because the Perpetuum emulator Open Perpetuum is going to be releasing Patch 31 sometime in "Marchish." When is Marchish? We're notsh...
Old School RuneScape adds Desert Treasure II and Scurrius cheevos, previews Varrock and Varlamore rewards
It's yet another set of granular updates and upcoming content previews for Old School RuneScape, with Jagex bringing new achievements to earn for existing...
Voxlands is a multiplayer boxy blend of FPS, RPG, and survival coming to February’s Steam Next Fest
It's time once again to take up several sub-genres, toss them in a pot, and whisk until they smooth into a new title. This...
Lost Ark discusses designing the lore, sound, and systems of the Voldis region
The month of December was all about Voldis for Lost Ark players, as the new continent and its various features dropped on fans of...
‘Supermax open world survival’ title SCUM removes garage locks, releases vehicle skins, and seeks player opinons
One of the things we always ask for in our Betawatch column is for readers to let us know if a game in testing...
Aion Classic EU confirms Executioner class, new instances, and level cap raise for the first half of 2024
The roadmap bug continues to proliferate across our genre, as Aion Classic EU shared its own 2024 roadmap last month in snazzy video format,...
The Stream Team: Joining in on the Nightingale stress test
MOP's Chris is going to add his weight to the one-day stress test of Nightingale today, and at the same time he's going to...
Minecraft claps hands with H&R Block to premiere a ‘tax-themed gaming experience’ February 3
Nobody likes doing taxes - heck, we're pretty sure that CPAs don't like doing taxes and it's their literal job - so it's really...
Destiny 2 director Joe Blackburn vacates his position for ‘a new adventure outside the walls of Bungie’
After nearly a decade of working at Bungie and four years as game director of Destiny 2, Joe Blackburn has left his position, moving...
First Impressions: Palworld copied all the right homework to graduate as its own enjoyable game
You know how the back of a box of Hamburger Helper or other boxed dinner mixes encourage you to toss in extra ingredients to...
Star Citizen discusses alpha 3.23 EVA updates, lines up multiple events and a new free trial for February
Star Citizen is a game that's mostly about internet spaceships, but sometimes players need to engage in some extra-vehicular activity, or EVA for short....
Former devs of The Day Before recount a workplace of employee fines, shifting whims, and ‘pure megalomaniacal chaos’
However badly managed The Day Before may have looked upon its disastrous early access release, the reality was reportedly much worse than anyone could...
ARK Survival Ascended is launching a streamlined way to get player-made items in February and April
Mod support is already a thing in ARK: Survival Ascended, but the survival sandbox is bringing a little bit more streamlining to the custom...
War Thunder celebrates the Lunar New Year with dragon decals and a free Soviet tank
2024 is the Year of the Dragon according to the Chinese Zodiac, so it stands to reason that War Thunder is celebrating the Lunar...
After nearly eight years, Dual Universe says physical Kickstarter rewards are en route
Dual Universe completed its Kickstarter crowdfunding drive in October 2016. Some of those backer tiers included physical schwag that would be mailed to player...
