Raph Koster on how Ultima Online pushed the MMO industry forward
Game Designer Raph Koster continues to ponder the significance of Ultima Online on this, the 20th anniversary of the MMORPG's historic release. In a...
Jagex disqualifies botfarming winner of $20K Old School RuneScape tourney
Last weekend, Jagex held its annual RuneFest event in London, where the studio demoed its mobile edition and teased plenty of upcoming content for both...
Final Fantasy XIV Stormblood launches 4.1 The Legend Returns in October
Did you think that the final boss of Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood was difficult? You'll probably be singing a different tune when you face...
WildStar briefs players on October plans, including new primal difficulties and Shade’s Eve
Attention, cupcakes and other sweet confections: WildStar has plans for October. You could probably guess that Shade's Eve would return again, of course, because...
Choose My Adventure: Into the desert of Guild Wars 2
My first week of playing Guild Wars 2 again was interesting, in no small part because it's rare for my playtime to be so...
Marvel Heroes gets Age of Apocalypse on consoles, while Gaz is working on a new game
Marvel Heroes has had a fairly quiet summer following the Omega showdown earlier this year, but there's a clear reason for that: Gazillion is...
Kritika Online moves to full launch on Steam with today’s Fractured Memories patch
Lots of big stuff is happening today for Kritika Online. First of all, the game's servers are going down at 9:30 a.m. EDT to...
Diablo III will get absolutely no announcements at this year’s BlizzCon
Blizzard really cares about the Diablo III fanbase and the overall Diablo franchise. So what if it gets less attention than other franchises? So...
The Daily Grind: What would an old MMO have to do to win you back?
Something odd hit me recently. As I was sitting and planning my MMO play schedules, I realized that whatever announcements about expansions we get...
Battle Bards Episode 106: Early access themes
Instead of looking back at MMORPGs this week, the crew of Battle Bards launches forward into early access! What would a show about music...
Hyperspace Beacon: Outside-the-box features to look for in a SWTOR guild (or any MMO guild)
On my server in Star Wars: The Old Republic, there are more guild advertisements than chatter in the general channel on the starter planets...
Ultima Online’s F2P mode launches spring 2018, limits housing, boats, and banks
Two decades after launch, Ultima Online is still going strong, and as we reported over the weekend, soon - spring 2018, to be exact...
Elite: Dangerous players are putting together fragmented accounts of fighting the Thargoids
One of the first players to encounter the Thargoids in Elite: Dangerous provided a video of the encounter, and the bad news is that...
Perfect Ten: How MMORPGs become so darn complicated
MMOs are complicated. This seems like a fairly non-controversial statement; there are more or less complicated games, but they all tend to be complex...
World of Warcraft hotfixes include an account-wide Argus unlock
How many alts do you have on World of Warcraft? Be honest, we won't judge you (and can't hear you anyway). Because unless the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO would you like to (re)visit before the end of the year?
Every time we come around to fall, it hits me that we're on the downhill slide to the year's end. Fewer months are left...
Check out the central player hub for Monster Hunter World
If you haven't guessed this from the title, Monster Hunter World is about hunting monsters. On a world. Exactly what it says on the...
Armored Warfare deep-dives the role of Armored Fighting Vehicles
The latest development diary on the Armored Warfare site is trying to answer a remarkably unclear question: What are Armored Fighting Vehicles? It sounds...
SWTOR plays the nerf-and-buff game with Assassins, Shadows, Sages, and Sorcs in 5.5
The latest set of class changes for Star Wars: The Old Republic are like the circle of life. Deception Assassins and Infiltration Shadows? You've...
Kritika Online opens up its test server for its next update
The next patch for Kritika Online is on its way, and this time you get to try it before you... well, play it. (You're...
