The Daily Grind: Do you care about MMO lore?
Lore is a big deal to me when I'm playing an MMO. For all the issues I have with Guild Wars 2, it genuinely...
The Game Archaeologist: Middle-earth Online
I suppose there will always be a special place in my heart for Lord of the Rings Online. Not only is it one of...
Leaderboard: Will Pokemon Go and the ARG genre stand the test of time?
GamesIndustry.biz has an interesting piece out this week examining the bandwagon effect of a game like Pokemon Go, as investors and venture capitalists begin...
No Man’s Sky delays PC launch to Friday
Hope you weren't taking off Tuesday: No Man's Sky's PC release has been delayed yet again, this time to August 12th:
https://twitter.com/NoMansSky/status/761694858562207744
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The Daily Grind: Do you duel other players in MMOs?
The other day I was loading up Shroud of the Avatar, and whilst checking out its options, I selected "auto-decline duels" so fast that...
Betawatch: Elder Scrolls Legends opens up (August 5, 2016)
If you've been waiting for something a bit more scroll-happy before jumping on the virtual card game train, you'll be happy to know that...
Allods Online’s Unconquered Summit update arrives
With a name like "Unconquered Summit," you just know that this Allods Online is taunting you to come and try to beat it.
Patch 7.0.1...
Final Fantasy XIV releases its first short story for its third anniversary
It's something of a tradition now for Final Fantasy XIV to release short fiction around the time of its anniversary. As the third anniversary...
Albion Online previews its passive weapon abilities
The final beta test for Albion Online has added in plenty of stuff for players to explore, and that includes more passive weapon abilities....
The Stream Team: Whisperings of Black Desert’s black wisp
MassivelyOP’s MJ has been ignoring that malevolent little black wisp in Black Desert for a while now, but she can't avoid it forever. If...
Star Citizen deep-dives catastrophic capital ship damage
On this week's Star Citizen:Â Around the Verse, you can safely skip to about 19:30 and peel your eyes wide open. Not that the rest...
Elder Scrolls Online explains how to conquer Cyrodiil
One of the interesting features that came with Elder Scrolls Online's Update 11 this week was the option to take a ragtag band of...
World of Warcraft’s Harbingers video and the story of Illidan
We have a lot of questions for Illidan, who is making a star performance return in World of Warcraft: Legion. Why so mad, bro?...
EverQuest II’s Altar of Malice will be free when GU101 launches August 23rd
The next big update for EverQuest II is coming later this month, and it's opening up the 11th expansion to everyone; on August 23rd,...
Five IPs that could tackle ARG gameplay features Pokemon Go lacks
Following the news that Niantic is now in fact working on a Harry Potter AR game, I realized that even as someone who enjoyed the...
City of Titans launches a comic-based Patreon
Developing a game is expensive, and that's why City of Titans has taken to Patreon... sort of. See, the developers are not asking for...
Crowfall teases the Guinecean Duelist, shifts development to focus on foundations
Small and deadly: That might just be the motto of the Guinecean Duelist, Crowfall's newest archetype in development. ArtCraft teased the pint-sized class yesterday and...
Black Desert: Community uproar and analysts on Kakao
Black Desert forumgoers dug up an article in the Korea Herald from a few weeks ago that suggests publisher Kakao is using its games...
World of Warcraft shows off its Legion leveling experience
The leveling experience of World of Warcraft: Legion is going to be rather different from previous expansions, starting with the fact that the answer...
Here’s why Niantic shut off Pokemon Go’s third-party apps
Niantic has a fresh blog post out (communication! yay!) that takes a stab at explaining just why it put the kibosh on third-party Pokemon...
