Ship of Heroes is gearing up to test its ‘big battle capabilities’ this weekend
Valiance Online isn't the only superhero MMORPG in full testing mode right now: Ship of Heroes is also rearing its head this week for...
War Thunder kicks off Operation S.U.M.M.E.R. 2020, World of Tanks Console had a collab event with WWE
What goes best with driving heavily armed and armored military vehicles around? Summertime! Also, apparently, professional wrestling! The summer season arrived to both War...
Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds is live, along with WvW quality-of-life enhancements
Guild Wars 2 is having a pretty packed summer, with the recent arrival of Jormag Rising and a special update for underwater skimmers coming...
Fallout 76 dials back the amount of concrete needed in the ATLAS fortification community goal
Could the Fallout 76 community have gotten 150 million units of in-game concrete to ATLAS? Probably not, so it's a good job that Bethesda...
After a brief delay yesterday, Valiance Online has kicked off its one-week open beta
Do you want a taste of the next generation of superhero MMORPGs? From now through August 16th, anyone who would like to see what...
Superhero MMO Valiance Online’s beta is opening up for PlayNYC this week
City of Heroes-inspired superhero MMORPG Valiance Online surprised everyone when it announced a few weeks back that it'd be opening up its beta for...
GDC Summer 2020: How Astroneer’s crafting balances cognitive load for the player
Long time followers of Astroneer may recall that the game's early development crafting felt cute but incomplete. Despite the game already being in the wild,...
The MOP Up: Sims Online’s rogue server goes sunbathing
FreeSO, the rogue server for the late Sims Online, is getting into the spirit of the season with a whole bunch of beach- and...
Shadow Arena introduces a limited-time battle pass full of in-game rewards and contest entries
Ah, the battle pass. It sure does seem to be the new microtransaction hotness, doesn't it? And now this latest trend in multiplayer gaming...
Unpredictable aliens are invading Ship of Heroes next weekend
City of Heroes veterans no doubt fondly (or not-so-fondly) recall the numerous Rikti invasions that happened in Paragon City over the years. Ship of...
GDC Summer 2020: Roblox, player-generated content, and the ‘metaverse’
Roblox VP of Product Deepak Chandrasekaran held a skill-building talk at GDC Summer 2020 this week titled Building the Metaverse through User Generated Content...
Black Desert celebrates the 2020 Termian Water Park grand opening with an in-game event
Few things say "summertime" quite like a water park, and seeing as how the pandemic is kind of killing the joy a real-life water...
Destiny 2’s Solstice of Heroes late summer event returns next week
If you're still sulking because Bungie delayed Destiny 2's Beyond Light expansion from September to November, well, there's a little something you can do...
GDC Summer 2020: Gachapon reward models in (mostly) free-to-play games
Let's be real: Some of the panel titles at GDC Summer 2020 are unintentionally misleading. For example, the "Evolution of Gacha Systems in Mobile...
Star Trek Online gives out free Lower Decks duty officers, starts summer event
This week, Star Trek's newest TV series debuted. But instead of it being a serious, live-action show, Star Trek: Lower Decks is an animated...
GDC Summer 2020: Pokemon Go’s Niantic offers augmented reality design advice
I was really looking forward to Niantic's AR Game Design 101 panel at GDC Summer 2020 this week because for all my criticisms of...
GDC Summer 2020: What online gaming can (and should) learn from social media’s trainwrecks
The circle is now complete: Social media has mastered skills MMOs and online games haven't, not that social media was paying much attention to...
Final Fantasy XI’s Voracious Resurgence arc is live as Square teases the Sunbreeze Festival
The devs of Final Fantasy XI don't seem to really appreciate what "maintenance mode" is understood to mean, judging by the new pieces of...
The Stream Team: Star-studded fun in Trove’s Lunar Plunge
There's a new Lunar Plunge event in Trove, and there's no way Massively OP's MJ is going to miss the chance to catch some...
Tree of Savior is bringing back high-speed leveling Growth Servers on August 11
If you happened to have missed out on the last time high-speed leveling servers were added to Tree of Savior, then you're in luck:...
