The top winner of this year’s Guild Wars 2 Friend/Ships contest is getting a trip to Gamescom 2019
Fancy a free trip to this year's Gamescom in Cologne, Germany? Then you're gonna want to take stock of ArenaNet's latest Guild Wars 2...
Final Fantasy XIV fans assemble the community tier list… for daddies
It's the day before the second Final Fantasy XIV fan festival ahead of Shadowbringers, which means that the community is hard at work. Is the hard...
Legends of Aria pulls controversial item from in-game store as dungeon patch and anti-gank spell go live
This week we've been covering the unfolding concern over Legends of Aria's newly instituted in-game store, specifically the release of a power hour potion...
Storyboard: Can you diverge from lore in MMORPG roleplaying?
All right, this is new for me because most of my titles do not contain dirty lies right in the question used to kick...
Ubisoft apologizes for boorish shutdown reference as Division 2 looks ahead to private beta
Back in October, Ubisoft made the bold claim that it was actively avoiding becoming "openly political in games," specifically referring to The Division...
Camelot Unchained’s newsletter looks at the small parts building larger things
If there's one theme to the latest Camelot Unchained newsletter (and as always, it's a lengthy newsletter), it's the reality that there are lots of...
Ship of Heroes upgrades to Unreal Engine 4.21 for a plethora of features
Upgrading versions of game engines is never terribly interesting. The one advantage for Ship of Heroes in this regard is that the nature of the...
Fallout 76 is now a gift with controller purchase in Germany as duping crackdown hits legit crafters. I am so tired.
Last week, we ran a poll on Fallout 76 that picked up on rumors that stores across the globe, from the UK to Australia...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever been to a concert in an MMO?
Slightly embarrassing story time: One of my favorite things to do in classic Star Wars Galaxies was sing. Yes, musicians and dancers were technically...
Massively Overthinking: The boring MMO development between bookends of hype
If you watch MMOs being developed for long enough, one truth becomes evident: It's kinda boring.
I started thinking a bit about this last week...
Battle Bards Episode 137: League of Legends’ hero themes
What’s your hero’s theme? If you play League of Legends, you know the answer to that already, because every hero in that game has...
City of Titans says it’s completed the rebuild of its alpha test server
City of Titans had a rough 2018. The Kickstarted City of Heroes spiritual successor was meant to release its "issue 0" alpha by the...
Escape from Tarkov devs apparently abused DMCA to target more than one YouTube critic
Back in December, we covered trouble brewing in the Escape From Tarkov community, as Russian developer Battlestate stood accused of abusing DMCA takedowns against...
Vague Patch Notes: How to recognize MMO lies from quite a long way away
One of the most consistently weird elements of covering MMOs is that there's a very simple and yet incredibly odd metric of knowing if...
Legends of Aria players grumble over perceived pay-to-win items in new cash shop
Yesterday, Legends of Aria players were startled to see the new cash-shop in the early access version of the game. Upsetting players even more...
Bethesda scrambles to deploy Fallout 76 hotfix in the wake of its botched patch debacle
The last patch for Fallout 76 didn't go so well, to say the least, as it reintroduced a whole slew of previously fixed bugs...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMOs that turn you off just based on history?
We were having an interesting discussion in work chat the other day about EVE Online involving Brendan and me. Brendan, obviously, is the expert on...
Albion Online teases its upcoming randomized PvE dungeons throughout the game world
The next update for Albion Online is offering new paths to treasure just spawning in the world, although you're going to have to fight through...
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds now has an app for tracking kills around streaming players
If you're rushing into battle in PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds and shooting away, you may realize only belatedly that you gunned down a well-known streamer's character in...
Perfect Ten: MMO arguments we need to put down
You know what I hate? No, not just botting. No, not people with more cash to spend on game development than sense about whether...
