The Soapbox: Evaluating gaming monetization through the lens of Nintendo’s mobile history
Bloggers and journalists throughout the online gaming industry have been talking about monetization a lot lately. It's not just lockbox/gachapon scandals, or their relationship...
Massively Overthinking: Taking risks in MMORPGs
Last weekend, Brendan wrote a great column on how to stay safe from gankers in EVE Online, noting that the newbies are commonly given...
World of Warcraft’s 7.3.5 begins testing as allied race, environment, and zone scaling spoilers abound
So the latest raid for World of Warcraft is out now, but perhaps you don't have a regular raid group. What will you do...
City of Titans shares details on creating its mission lines
There's already a lot of lore floating around for City of Heroes-inspired indie MMORPGÂ City of Titans, but all of the lore in the world...
Crowfall takes a skittering look at spiders
If you're the sort of person who runs screaming from a room and vows to burn the whole house down over the barest glimpse...
Leaderboard: Is Destiny 2’s marketing brilliant or just plain nuts?
So this morning I'm dishing out cheese crackers for my kid, who was up all night barfing. (If my posts have typos today, it's...
Choose My Adventure: Secret World Legends and the mystery of the level-based curse
Would you believe that I sort of forgot about levels altogether in Secret World Legends? It's true! I remembered that they were a thing...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs with PvP-focused factions allow cross-faction interaction?
I'm on-board for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth focusing on the factional conflict, but there's a side of the factions in WoW that...
Battle Bards Episode 110: Acoustic guitar
The Battle Bards are quite familiar with the power of the strummed guitar and lute, knowing that such simple instruments can bring down walls,...
Skyforge is out for the Xbox One
Who says that Sony fans get all of the good exclusives for this particular console generation? After all, you can now play a god...
The Soapbox: Inconvenience is not immersion in MMOs or anywhere else
Inconvenience is not immersion.
This strikes me as something rather ridiculous to type; to mildly paraphrase Dan Harmon, it seems like should be one of...
Destiny 2 stream is canceled in the wake of player rage as a free trial surfaces
So, let's recap the Destiny 2 saga. First, there was a leveling scaling problem wherein players discovered that the game was now slowing leveling...
The Daily Grind: What should MMOs do to facilitate your return?
Over the past weekend, I picked up Hearthstone after a year or two away from the game. I certainly didn't remember where I left...
Global Chat: Saying goodbye to Marvel Heroes
Few people are happy to see an MMO go down, especially in the manner that Marvel Heroes is going from a popular and well-liked...
Path of Exile shows off the interactions of new skills and support abilities
Part of the fun of Path of Exile is setting up combinations of skills, support skills, and items in order to create a constant...
ROKH updates fans on the process of examining and improving the game
Another four-week silence from the ROKH development team has been broken by the latest update on the state of the game. The last lengthy...
Clicker Heroes dev on abandoning the free-to-play model for the sequel
If you've never played Clicker Heroes, you can pick it up for your phone or on Steam right now; it's a lightweight little idle...
Revelation Online: ShadowBlade brings Assassin, new class training, and class changes
Do you want to skulk in the shadows in Revelation Online? The new ShadowBlade expansion for the game lets you do just that with...
Raph Koster on the cost of making games from the industry side
All of this talk about the price of making games and the price of playing games thanks to Star Wars: Battlefront II has meant...
SWTOR’s double event won’t make today’s 5.6 patch (but the trailer is now live!)
The bad news is that the Star Wars: The Old Republic double event has been pushed back slightly. It was supposed to start today,...
