Chris Neal
Jeff Strain’s Crop Circle Games studio shuts down abruptly following employee furloughs
Over the past couple of years we've been keeping a general eye on the opening of Crop Circle Games, a new indie studio formed...
Temtem applies bug fixes and balance tweaks, Temtem Swarm shows off its first playable creature
Temtem - the MMO that's not really an MMO according to developer Crema - has put out a fresh adjustment patch for its ongoing...
World of Warships brings asymmetric battles and the USS Wisconsin in its April update
A fresh content update is on the horizon for World of Warships in mid-April, and it's bringing on a big new ship for fans...
Palworld plans player testing of ‘exciting new content’ and continues its parade of creature feature videos
Pocketpair's survival sandbox hit Palworld, like many other titles before it, is doing the "testing early builds of an early access game" thing. Earlier...
Valorant’s newest non-binary character is capable of messing with players even after death
Generally speaking, when your player character is gunned down in a Valorant match, that's it - you just have to sit there and spectate...
Zenith previews Infinite Realms Season 2 as players reviewbomb the Last City MMO
Zenith continues to look more and more like a tale of two totally different games - the originally Kickstarted MMORPG The Last City and...
Playable World’s Raph Koster refutes claim that his book Theory of Fun espouses a regressive agenda
Reading comprehension is an important skill that one could argue is being lost to the flood of hot takes and those who absorb only...
Wayfinder says disentangling from Digital Extremes caused its lapse in updates and communication
Airship Syndicate's multiplayer RPG Wayfinder continues to stay live, though you'd be forgiven for assuming that might not be the case since it hasn't...
The Stream Team: Running roulettes and discussing Dawntrail dates in Final Fantasy XIV
This Eorzea Sunday, MOP's Chris and his friends have plenty to talk about! Now that the Dawntrail expansion has its launch date, among other...
Last Epoch writes a postmortem about its bumpy online launch and the lessons learned
Things may have leveled off for the online multiplayer experience in Last Epoch, but that certainly wasn't the case in the OARPG's first week,...
Lost Skies’ latest dev blog looks at exploding ship parts, island updates, and a utility item in action
We'll start by pointing out that, no, Bossa Studios' developing PvE survivalbox Lost Skies still has no timeline for testing or release. What it...
Soulframe talks expanding testing access and shows off new gameplay footage at PAX East
Digital Extremes' second game Soulframe is currently in what it's calling "pre-pre-pre-pre-alpha," which suggests that its pool of testers is pretty small. That notion...
Pax Dei elaborates on alpha two’s focus on combat and PvP with updates to several related systems
Pax Dei developer Mainframe Industries is looking to keep the conversation going about its April 23rd second alpha test, which leads us to its...
Warframe debuts new previews for its Dante Unbound, Warframe 1999, and Jade Shadows updates
The devstream from Warframe at this year's PAX East had a lot to show off to fans. That's generally nothing new if you consider...
MMO Business Roundup: Jagex dinged by UK government, Roblox AI tools, and Epic v Apple plods on
Do you hear that? It's the rhythmic tinkling bells of Business Cat's collar as she merrily skips forth with another round of industry stories...
Tencent’s multiplayer zombie survival RPG Undawn ‘flopped spectacularly,’ according to Reuters
Last June, Tencent introduced the world to Undawn, a mulitplayer survival RPG for PC and mobile that tasked players with trying to make it...
RIFT holds a server load test as part of new data center migration, manually reruns the Mech Parade event
This week marks another bit of odd activity in RIFT, which appears to be associated with earlier server merging and server transfers: Gamigo is...
The Stream Team: Roaming further into an astrolabe forest in Nightingale
MOP's Chris was last seen taking his first exploratory sojourns into an astrolabe forest in Nightingale for Choose My Adventure, and today he'll be...
Star Citizen outlines the features and functions of alpha 3.23’s new persistent hangars
As a space trucker myself, I can tell you having the ability to have my own hangar definitely appeals to me, so the newest...
EVE Vanguard’s latest playtest adds a mining laser, resource gathering, and suppression contracts
Playtesting for the EVE Vanguard module within EVE Online is continuing once more this weekend, and it's bringing several new feature updates for those...