The Stream Team: Looking at Legends of Aria’s closed beta
Alpha is but a memory from the past -- Legends of Aria has moved on to closed beta. That means Massively OP's MJ needs...
Fractured’s player city system is the evolution of Star Wars Galaxies
MMORPG sandbox Fractured has five days to secure another 16K to make its $116K Kickstarter goal - and it just broke the $100K barrier...
Otherland plans a new character type to experience an upcoming short story by Tad Williams
Tad Williams, the author of the original Otherland quadrology, has written a new novella in that world. What does this mean for players of...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s Battle for Azeroth feels like Cataclysm all over again
It took me a long time to identify what felt off about World of Warcraft's upcoming expansion. Something was definitely bothering me, but the...
Crowfall improves performance by changing terrain
It's far too early in Crowfall's testing to worry about optimizing the game's frame rate and overall performance, but there's a difference between "optimizing"...
Star Citizen is working on the AI patrols to make griefing much harder, reveals medical concept ship sale
On this week's episode of Star Citizen's Around the Verse, Sandi Gardiner and Chris Roberts recap "emergent gameplay" events recorded by the community, including...
Black Desert dives down into underwater dungeons
You know where's a really great place to build a dungeon? Under the ocean. Sure, there's the bends, flesh-rending sharks, and a severe lack...
Trion Worlds has been hit with layoffs, loses ArcheAge associate producer
Trion has confirmed the layoffs - we've updated below.
Trion Worlds in general and ArcheAge in specific are going through a turbulent time this week...
World of Warcraft Hunters launch #SaveHati campaign
With this week's World of Warcraft pre-expansion patch, Blizzard has made one group of players deeply unhappy by putting down their pet dog.
Some --...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite non-awful gaming subreddit?
I want to flip the tables on the whole toxicity/Reddit thing a bit. Earlier this week, we talked about some of the problems Reddit...
Massively Overthinking: What important lessons are MMORPGs failing to impart?
MOP reader and Patron Brett has a burning question about the lessons we're learning (and not learning) from playing MMORPGs.
"In his book Theory of Fun,...
ArcheAge’s July content update adds sport fishing, expands fresh start server content
Despite the slightly awkward name -- "Phase 4: Reign, Part 1," really, Trion? -- this week's ArcheAge content update is chock-full of fun for...
OrbusVR hosts another free weekend starting today
We should warn prospective players of OrbusVR ahead of time that the game's new free weekend will not include a free VR headset. If...
EVE Online is planning to weaken Force Auxiliaries
It's just too easy for Force Auxiliaries to heal other ships right now in EVE Online. That's the reason behind the balance proposal put...
World of Warcraft answers pressing prepatch questions in its latest video Q&A
The prepatch for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth is out now, but the expansion is still a bit further off, so players have...
The Stream Team: Solving Scorched Desert mysteries in Secret World Legends
It's time to give her brain a workout! Massively OP's MJ left the best for last in Secret World Legends; she still has five...
Netease calls PUBG Corp’s copyright lawsuit ‘shameless’, Riot and Tencent win non-compete lawsuit against alleged cloner
Remember back in April, when Korea-based PUBG Corp. accused China-based Netease of ripping off PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds with its battle royale titles Knives Out (which...
Tamriel Infinium: The bizarre lore of the Hist in Elder Scrolls Online – and how it could matter in Murkmire
Although our next Elder Scrolls Online venture into Black Marsh is still many months away, I thought I would take a moment to talk...
Blade & Soul buffs up its subscription benefits in its False Idols update
It's always a great feeling when you get a good bang for your buck. While Blade and Soul isn't changing the cost of its...
Grab a Survived By closed beta key from Digital Extremes and MOP [All gone!]
Digital Extremes' retro permadeath/bullet-hell MMO Survived By entered closed beta yesterday and rolled out a patch with a new 10-man raid, hardmode dungeons, UI...
