Battle Bards Episode 140: Piano piano!
It’s one of the most powerful and versatile of musical instruments, and now the piano is getting its own featured show here on Battle...
EverQuesting: EverQuest turns the big 2-0
Today is a pretty big day in Norrath: EverQuest turns the big 2-0! Impressive. Twenty years is quite an accomplishment. Even more impressive than...
RIFT datamining adds more evidence for a coming battle pass
Gamigo may have called it quits for RIFT's progression server, but that doesn't mean that the publisher has development for the regular shards. In...
The Daily Grind: When have MMOs successfully put a clever spin on old tropes?
We can all point to the many, many video game and pop culture tropes that infest MMORPGs to both our amusement and annoyance. From...
Betawatch: Ashes of Creation wants itself some big organized PvP fights
So Ashes of Creation is delaying its testing phase, that's not a big deal. The game still has plans for nice big and meaty...
OrbusVR: Reborn previews new dungeons and talent tweaks ahead of final beta test
The folks at OrbusVR have been hard at work since they announced the game's first major expansion/complete overhaul, OrbusVR: Reborn, back in August of...
Old School RuneScape improves its quest panel while providing plenty of sand storage
Do you need help storing sand in old school RuneScape? Good news, then, as the game's latest patch adds in a new Sandstone grinder that...
Population Zero releases world design video ahead of weekend alpha and next week’s update
Ahead of this weekend's alpha play test, the Population Zero developers have posted up a video ostensibly about world design. You'll need to flip...
Albion Online answers questions about randomized dungeons from players
The developers at Albion Online are hyped about the game's new randomized dungeons. That makes perfect sense. But they also recognize that players have...
Champions Online brings in hip new armor for the Circus Malvanum race
It's hip to wear armor in Champions Online. Wait, no, that's not quite what we're supposed to say, sorry; it's that there's a new...
Legends of Aria makes its roadmap public as it preps its experimental test server
Legends of Aria's new community lead has a new letter for the playerbase this week, and while it's not bristling with critical info, it's...
BioWare patches Anthem to buff loot quality at higher difficulties
If you're following the loot saga of Anthem, you might have begun to suspect that nothing BioWare could do would actually make everyone happy....
Star Citizen previews urban dystopia and in-game holidays, drops February studio report
Very few settings in games spark as much joy in me as a glowy rainbow neon urban cyberpunk dystopia, so that makes this week's...
WoW Factor: The good and (very minor) bad of World of Warcraft patch 8.1.5
We've spent three weeks explaining, in no small amount of detail, why people are unhappy with the current state of World of Warcraft. We're going...
Part two of Warframe’s Buried Debts operation is live as community grumbles over events
Part two of Warframe's Buried Debts events is live this week, following up on last week's operation launch. The best bit is that among...
First Impressions: My first three days of survival in Outlaws of the Old West
Back in 1999, I lived out in Colorado Springs and basked in the wide-open spaces, the scenic mountains, the towering mesas, and the feeling...
Guild Wars 2 player builds Super Adventure Box guild hall in tribute to designer Josh Foreman
My kid has already started pestering me about Super Adventure Box this year. It's almost April 1st. Is it open yet? Will there be...
LOTRO Dwarves delve too deep, progression players rush in to see
Dust off that goat and ride fiercely into Khazad-dûm, for the vast underground kingdom is finally open for business on Lord of the Rings...
The Daily Grind: Has your MMO of choice ever had a major data loss?
When Justin mentioned to me on this week's podcast the rumor that Lord of the Rings Online's and Dungeons and Dragons Online's multi-day downtime...
Warhammer Online blogger and MMO podcaster Steve ‘Slurms’ Lichtsinn loses battle with cancer
Out of the boisterous class of Warhammer Online bloggers that emerged on the scene in 2008, Steve "Slurms" Lichtsinn became well-known for his affable...
