ArcheAge’s latest patch introduces the feared leviathan
The kraken? Oh, the kraken in ArcheAge was so last week's terrifying sea foe. Now the fantasy sandbox has a new threat emerging from...
E3 2015: Blade & Soul’s ‘full-access F2P’ model and hands-on
Long before NCsoft officially announced that Blade & Soul was heading west, fans were eager for the chance to get their hands on the game...
One Shots: Primitive GPS
There's no shame in being lost, especially if your MMO doesn't include an on-screen map. Anyone remember the olden days of using graph paper...
E3 2015: Torchlight Mobile is a new Torchlight, not Torch-lite
When Perfect World and Runic Games announced last week that Torchlight was stretching out into the mobile market, it caught many folks quite unawares. (It's...
E3 2015: Hands-on with Sword Coast Legends
I'm more an MMORPG player than a Dungeons & Dragons tabletop gamer, but I'm familiar enough with D&D to be intrigued by the addition of...
E3 2015: SWTOR Knights of Fallen Empire rumors are true
BioWare teased that things would change for Star Wars: The Old Republic on June 15th. And it's true. The rumors we reported on this...
One Shots: Bagpipes in the woods
I can't say that I'm the biggest fan of bagpipe music, although I do harbor a certain fascination for any musical instrument that looks...
See World of Warcraft’s oldest surviving screenshots
Here's a treat for MMO history buffs. Dave Wilson, who works at Blizzard doing recruitment marketing, posted a series of captioned pictures on Twitter...
PvE sandbox Villagers and Heroes is reborn tomorrow
When I last checked in on indie PvE sandbox Villagers and Heroes a year ago, the Steam launch was busy rocking the game with dramatic...
One Shots: The infinite summons
One of the stranger Final Fantasy tropes is that the more powerful a summoned creature is, the longer it would take for any given...
Aion’s Upheaval begins on June 17th
At a time when players are leery of being nickle-and-dimed, Aion is releasing yet another completely free expansion. Also known as patch 4.8, Upheaval...
Marvel Heroes celebrates its second anniversary with Doctor Doom
Dust off your capes and adjust your ruby-quartz visors, for tomorrow is Marvel Heroes' second anniversary and all are invited to join in the...
One Shots: Reflections of me
One fun in-game photography trick is to use reflections, mirrors, and glass to offer a different -- and sometimes more artistic -- vision of...
WildStar is going free-to-play this autumn
Critics, current players, former players, people who had briefly heard about the title from friends and family - a lot of people didn't think...
One Shots: My imaginary friends
Here's a fun thought: What if we aren't actually playing MMOs? What if we're just sitting in front of blank screens, creating fantasy worlds...
LOTRO Legendarium: Eight years, eight pictures, eight stories
I might be a little tardy in doing this, but every spring since I started to write about Lord of the Rings Online, I've...
Blade & Soul hits western shores this winter
Remember when comic books had little call-outs on the front cover proudly proclaiming that something happened because the readers requested it? I always thought...
Valiance Online plots its strategy going forward
What's going on in the super-powered world of Valiance Online? Quite a lot, actually. The spiritual successor to City of Heroes posted a list...
Voxelnauts Kickstarter melds VR, voxels, and sandbox gameplay
What do you get when you stick a sandbox, voxels, and VR into a blender? You get Voxelnauts, a new voxelbox -- actually, they're calling...
One Shots: Nothing to see here, move along
Do you ever stop to realize just how much weirdness we see and dismiss every day as MMO gamers? If a fraction of the...