Jef Reahard
Make My MMO: September 5, 2015
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, not a whole lot happened! In the land of pseudo-MMOs, though, Kickstarter darling and PvE-focused survival sandbox Eco...
Shards Online newsletter talks housing, the economy, and more
Shards Online's latest newsletter is out, and with it an update from project lead Derek Brinkmann. He says that the dev team is currently...
Star Citizen gets weekly and monthly reports, free DragonCon trial
If you're attending DragonCon this weekend, you might see various Star Citizen developers chatting up gamers and sharing their perspectives on various dev panels....
GTA Online is having a Labor Day sale plus bonuses
Rockstar has announced that Grand Theft Auto Online is having a Labor Day sale. No, it's not a cash shop sale, but an actual...
Here are the winners of Guild Wars 2’s emblem contest
Remember Guild Wars 2's guild emblem contest? Well, it's over! And ArenaNet has chosen five winners from more than 500 entries, after a judging...
EverQuest II is throwing a double XP party all weekend
Looking for something to do on Labor Day? If you're not going outside, you could always go to Norrath and enjoy a 100 percent...
Leaderboard: What’s the greatest MMOFPS of all time?
Yesterday's Heroes & Generals post got me to thinking about MMOFPS titles. Heroes & Generals really isn't one, in my opinion, despite its developers...
Stick and Rudder: Star Citizen is starting to come together
Last Tuesday I woke in the wee hours of the morning to install Star Citizen's 1.2 patch. I wasn't battling insomnia or anything like that; on the...
Heroes & Generals releases Xylander patch
Reto-Moto has updated World War II shooter Heroes & Generals with a patch called Xylander. It adds new killing tools for Soviet players as...
EverQuest Next has a big internal playtest today
EverQuest Next is still very much a thing according to Daybreak producer Terry Michaels. On a livestream recorded earlier this afternoon, Michaels said that...
ESPN is hiring an e-sports editor
Remember a year or so ago when ESPN CEO John Skipper created a minor stink in the nerdosphere by pooh-poohing e-sports and intimating that...
The Daily Grind: Why don’t more PvP sandboxes have consequences?
Eco's recent stretch goal reveal tickled my fancy, mainly because I've been ranting about the lack of meaningful criminal justice systems in PvPÂ sandboxes for...
Eco’s proposed death penalty doesn’t mess around
Eco, the global ecosystem survival game that recently blew through its $100,000 Kickstarter goal, has added a player-run criminal justice PvP system as a...
SWTOR vets form new studio, partner with Nexon
Korean F2P giant Nexon announced today that it has entered into a "strategic partnership" with newly formed QC Games. Nexon America will publish and market...
Valiance teases its character creation progress
In-development superhero MMO Valiance Online updated its website today with a few pics showing off its character creation system. The textual description refers to the...
This is how Crowfall has evolved over the past 16 weeks
Crowfall's latest video is a 25-minute affair that shows you how the crowdfunded PvP fantasy title has progressed from stacks of Post-It notes, index...
SMITE tweaks the old gods and the new
SMITE's latest patch is here, and it features a new god (Xing Tian), new skins, new voice packs, new emotes, new avatars, and new...
DC Universe’s Episode 16 launches tomorrow
If you're a DC Universe Online member, you can get your hands on its newest bit of DLC tomorrow. Episode 16 launches for subscribers...
ARK’s tourney championship features a giant ass dragon
Studio Wildcard is hyping the championship round of ARK: Survival Evolved's Survival of the Fittest tourney which takes place tomorrow, September 2nd at 2:00 p.m....
Camelot Unchained’s newsletter recaps August, looks to DragonCon
Camelot Unchained fans, I hope you have a caffeinated beverage and a lot of free time, because the 13th edition of the game's newsletter...
