Chris Neal
Pax Dei outlines changes to gathering, crafting, and looting coming in November 5’s Proving Grounds update
Pax Dei has about a week and a half left to go before its Proving Grounds update goes live, and while the biggest features...
Trine studio Frozenbyte is still working on 2021 sci-fi sandbox Starbase
The public testing of features for sci-fi building sandbox Starbase that first started in July and picked back up in September has continued to...
MMO Business Roundup: Lockboxes, SAG-AFTRA, child safety, and another ABK union rally
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news! It's a bit of good news and bad news this time around, so...
The Stream Team: Checking out the spooky haunts hiding in Throne & Liberty’s Halloween event
It's time for an all-new Halloween event on OPTV! Today, MOP's Chris is hopping into Throne and Liberty in order to check out as...
Old School RuneScape tests run energy changes and shares community server dev progress
Old School RuneScape is positively flush with information this week, with Jagex kicking out multiple dev blogs about what it's got cooking across the...
Rumor: Guild Wars 2-themed digital CCG is called Lion’s Arch Guild Wars Arena – and it’s coming to Steam
Those sneaky sleuthy Redditors appear to have uncovered something that ArenaNet and NCsoft appear to be preparing to unveil. A SteamDB update shared by...
New World discusses the design, lore, and mechanics of its Nightveil Hallow event
Halloween has descended on New World this week, but perhaps you're curious about how this event came together from a lore and design standpoint....
Sea of Thieves outlines plans to temporarily remove features and address bugs plaguing Season 14
The season of Making Mischief in Sea of Thieves has instead resulted in making headaches for Rare Ltd. and making players grumpy, as the...
Black Desert adds Halloween events to mobile, a spooky boss fight on console, and class updates to PC
The spookytimes are continuing to spread across Black Desert as both BDO Console and BDO Mobile players can enjoy their seasonal fun in this...
Destiny Rising talks down fears of a stamina mechanic after a UI screenshot makes the rounds
Earlier this month, NetEase officially confirmed the existence of Destiny: Rising, a mobile version of the looter shooter that was initially leaked by Bungie...
My Time at Evershine’s Kickstarter ends successfully with nearly $3M raised from gamers
The appetite for the multiplayer RPG My Time at Evershine was already pretty apparent when its Kickstarter campaign met its goal within 30 minutes,...
Throne & Liberty delays its Halloween event update’s deployment over a ‘critical stability issue’
If you were among those eager to get some Halloween fun times going in Throne and Liberty, you're unfortunately going to have to wait...
Lineage II kicks off Halloween Festival events across all three versions of the MMO
The great thing about Lineage II having three different versions on our side of the globe (presumably) is that means there's three times the...
Albion Online details new journal categories for guilds and islands coming in the Horizons update
While most players are likely looking very sternly at the worrying cash shop bundles arriving on the same date as the Horizons update, Albion...
Dreamhaven-pubbed co-op roguelite Lynked Banner of the Spark enters early access
Are you ready to take on adorable-sounding enemies known as Combots, befriend similarly adorable-sounding Unibots, and play with friends together in a colorful-looking co-op...
The Stream Team: The further escapades of two cats dressed in pirate costumes in Cat Quest III
MOP's Chris and his best friend are dressing up like pirates! OK, technically they are pirate cats in the co-op RPG Cat Quest III,...
Fntastic pulls the plug on Escape Factory crowdfunding, shifts instead to another prop hunt game
If we're all very honest, the crowdfunding drive for The Day Before developer Fntastic's obstacle course platformer Escape Factory was very likely never going...
World of Warcraft DPS players stage group finder protests over recent balance changes
When World of Warcraft kicked off its latest patch, it was ostensibly focused on the MMORPG's 20th anniversary, which is pretty understandable. However, there...
Age of Empires Mobile brings massively multiplayer strategy sieges to mobile devices in its global launch
There's possibly a market out there for a mobile version of a venerated strategy series, right? We're not really capable of answering these questions;...
Palia opens up the plushie trading system and adds new decor with today’s Fall’s Flourishes update
Do you remember when there was a school-wide trading market for collectibles? Baseball cards, Micro Machines, Garbage Pail Kids cards; they were totally a...