The Daily Grind: Do you have a love/hate relationship with an MMO?
For the most part, my MMO gaming world is pretty black and white. If I enjoy a game, then I'm playing it. If I'm...
Global Chat: Tripping over colors in MMO play
Have you ever thought about what it would be like to play an MMO while affected by colorblindness? A guest writer over at Epic...
City of Heroes dev answers more lore questions for game’s anniversary
City of Heroes is dead; long live City of Heroes! The superhero MMO would have been 11 years old next month but for an...
Star Citizen’s sound designer weighs in on sound in space
In space, no one can hear you scream. Or yell, or fart, or blow up another ship. Sound doesn't travel well in a vacuum,...
Frontier crowns its Race to Elite winners
Appropriately, the winner of Frontier's Triple Elite competition is a Commander by the name of Onepercent. He played for 1,029 hours between December 18th...
World of Warcraft gears up for WoW Tokens and arena championships
Can you part with real money more easily than you can part with hours of time to farm up gold in World of Warcraft?...
Players seek world record for longest Hearthstone turn
By setting up a chain reaction of around 240,000 arcane missiles targeting a player who cannot be killed at the moment, two players have...
Sword and Bored: Newbie zone
Mo loads into the game, unwittingly joining his first open PvP server and meeting new "friends."
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite game to decompress with?
Moving is absolutely awful, as we all know, and I would be very happy to never move ever again. Once my computer was all...
Shroud of the Avatar talks dev events, a community app, and more
Shroud of the Avatar's latest update is typically meaty. It features the usual footnotes related to in-game tweaks and changes as well as blurbs...
Revival says it will feature ‘graphic sex’
Those of you with sex on the brain may find the latest Revival dev post enlightening. Before we get to the bumping and grinding,...
One Shots: Memories of those long lost
Sometimes we start silly, and sometimes we start weird, but today we're going to start somber and reflective. Reader Becca made a discovery that...
The Daily Grind: Did you play Cabal Online?
I've got a question. It's not a burning question, mind you, but it's one I've been meaning to ask for a few days now....
The Daily Grind: How important are different body types in MMO character creation?
I know it's a pain for the art team to have to figure out how to get gear and weapons to fit different shapes,...
The Secret World begins #IAMTSW contest series
The Secret World's forum game is finally upon us, and as promised, it looks to be a doozy. Funcom will be running several weeks...
EverQuest Next opens up the Qeynos Foundation Museum contest
EverQuest Next is getting ready to lay the groundwork for the city of Qeynos, and the design team is turning to Landmark to make...
WoW Factor: The design slide from start to present
After more than a decade of operation, a curious thing has happened to World of Warcraft: It's circled back around on an awful lot...
Trion says it ‘missed the mark’ with ArcheAge promotion
Yesterday's revelation that Trion was handing out significant gifts to former ArcheAge players to entice them to return to the game -- gifts in...
ArcheAge patrons perturbed at Trion’s gift to former players
When's the last time we had a good ArcheAge controversy? Actually who cares, because Trion has stepped up to the plate with a new...
Final Fantasy XI halts updates this year with one last storyline
How long should a game last? Final Fantasy XI has had an impressive run, but its glory days are indisputably past. That's why Square-Enix...
