The Daily Grind: Do you prefer target locks or free aiming in MMO action combat?
In the world of active combat, the mechanics are split between two separate yet equally important combat styles. The first is the open free-aiming...
The Stream Team: Concluding Elder Scrolls Online’s Elsweyr prologue
When you are listening to Khajiiti legends in Elder Scrolls Online, you never get the whole story at once! And Massively OP's MJ needs...
Atlas rolls out new public test server and ‘megapatch’ with multiple PvP and PvE modes
Wildcard's early access pirate MMO Atlas entered a new phase this past week: It's finally got a public test realm.
"It’s here! Our Public Test...
Broke Protocol’s Repair and Rearm update adds vehicle repairing and fixed turrets
Life in the blocky sandbox world of Broke Protocol is about to get... well, maybe not easier exactly, but somewhat more convenient perhaps. The...
Check out Star Citizen’s new ‘environmental AI bounty hunting’ in action
It's still not really ready for primetime after some much-deserved delays, but Star Citizen's 3.5 alpha features a big chunk of content aimed squarely...
Blizzard bribes female employees to track their sex, pregnancy, and moods
Big Brother was so 1984. Now in 2019, it's all about Big Blizzard.
Read this report over at Games Industry based on a new WAPO...
Monster Hunter Online is sunsetting in China at the end of this year
Bad news for the Chinese hunters of Monster Hunter Online: Tencent has announced that the game will be shutting down at the end of...
Crowfall’s Illara campaign – and a wipe – arrives this week
One of the hallmarks of Crowfall is its cyclical campaigns that feature firm beginnings and endings before coming back in different forms. This format...
Hyperspace Beacon: I can’t believe I forgot these things about Star Wars Galaxies
For the last couple of weeks, I've been able to re-experience Star Wars Galaxies. After eight years, I noticed that I might have forgotten...
TERA is rolling back all progress since yesterday’s patch thanks to a nasty economy exploit
Yesterday's TERA Skywatch: New Heights update brought along a bit more than En Masse bargained for, and now the servers will see a rollback...
Desert Oasis: Understanding and critiquing Black Desert’s RNG systems
One of the main critiques readers made about my first Desert Oasis column last month was that I did not mention Black Desert's random...
Blade & Soul’s Legends Reborn is live today as NCsoft merges western servers down to two
It's time to be legendary in Blade and Soul, or at least adjacent to the rebirth of legends. Or something like that, as the...
Perfect Ten: Suggestions to make World of Warcraft Classic feel more authentic
One of the things that I tell people going back to Final Fantasy XI now is that the game is, well, a different animal...
Black Desert deletes Shadow Arena, compensates players, and opens the Egg Hunt
The day has come, folks: Shadow Arena is officially patched out of Black Desert today, after hackers and banwaves and what had to be...
Elite Dangerous announces April 23 update with newbie tweaks and new pilot modules
Frontier has just announced Elite Dangerous' next big update is launching on April 23rd.
"As mentioned in the beginning of March, this year's initial updates...
Albion Online is officially free-to-play today – and already ‘under heavy load’
Fancy getting your peekay on in an actual PvP sandbox? Albion Online is officially free-to-play today, meaning you can swarm the game without paying...
Neowiz’s Bless studio is dissolving and merging back into Neowiz
It looks like Neowiz Bless Studio -- developer of Bless Online, if that wasn't immediately obvious -- is returning to the mothership, so to...
The Daily Grind: What MMO player behavior irks you the most?
One of the best aspects of MMORPGs is also one of its worst on occasion. And yes, I'm talking about the presence of those...
Wurm Online’s massive update brings six months of adjustments online
If you read a claim that an MMORPG update has been six months in the making, it's a pretty safe bet that there are...
The Stream Team: Sailing to AdventureQuest 3D’s Isle of the Dead
If you like islands vacations, there is a new destination spot open in AQ3D! Sail on over to Isle of the Dead and join...
