Fight or Kite: Checking in with Crowfall after the acquisition
I’ve been playing all kinds of different games these days, many of them MMOs and many of them offline RPGs. I find myself kind...
Old School RuneScape celebrates nine years with a conflict-free party in the desert
Miracle of miracles, there's an anniversary event in an MMORPG that isn't being interrupted by some baddies, monsters, invading forces, magical nonsense, or mischievous...
Wisdom of Nym: Everything we learned from the February Final Fantasy XIV live letter
So what did we learn from the latest Final Fantasy XIV live letter? A lot, and most of it good, although some of it...
Microsoft’s Activision-Blizzard offer happened lightning-fast – and Microsoft wasn’t the only bidder
While the news of Microsoft's nearly $70 billion buyout of Activision Blizzard came as a sudden surprise this past January, the truth is that...
Lost Ark says it’s working to fix European servers’ ongoing queue and matchmaking woes
The experience of central EU players of Lost Ark has been an absolute mess. As we've been reporting, massive player counts in the region...
The Daily Grind: Are you more about setting or lore in MMOs?
I have never really thought of myself as a lore person. I don't go into an MMO and memorize the lore or the backstory,...
MMO Week in Review: Sith happens
Star Wars The Old Republic's Legacy of the Sith launched this week, though as MOP's Hyperspace Beacon columnist Larry Everett explained, it hasn't thrilled...
Wild Terra 2 improves animation and adds keybinding options in-game
People get very attached to their keybinding options in video games. Don't lie, you have strong opinions about what should happen when you hit...
The MOP Up: Uncharted Waters Online decodes the secrets of human heritage
Uncharted Waters Online's "greatest challenge yet" arrived last week with its Olympia patch. This update added a new legacy theme to decode, a fight...
One Shots: Stepping back from the brink
A little while ago, I read how some visitors to the Grand Canyon have actually fallen in and perished because they would get a...
The Daily Grind: How much time do you spend on MMOs you don’t play?
I spend a lot of time talking, reading, and thinking about MMOs I do not play and do not want to play. Some of...
Riot Games promotes Marc Merrill to president of games
If you could go back to visit younger me and tell my naive face that it was actually possible to be promoted to become...
Fallout 76 is about to be invaded by aliens, big-time
Just when you thought that irradiated zombies, bloodthirsty cannibals, rogue robots, insidious molemen, sinister cults, and nuclear explosions were the worst threats that Fallout...
Final Fantasy XIV’s live letter explains future patch plans and graphical upgrade plans
After a decade of operation (a little more, actually, but even producer and director Naoki Yoshida admits to rounding to a decade because it...
Into the Super-Verse: The joy of travel powers in superhero MMOs
I lived for level 14. Before level 14 was torture -- after was bliss.
I speak, of course, of City of Heroes "back in the...
Dungeons and Dragons Online announces new producer and a packed 2022 roadmap
Like its counterpart in Lord of the Rings Online, Dungeons and Dragons Online now has a producer of its very own. Standing Stone Games...
The Daily Grind: Are there places you linger in MMOs just to listen to the soundtrack?
In my years of both playing MMORPGs and talking with other players, I've noticed a trend among some of us where we'll find ourselves...
The Stream Team: AQ3D rocket goblins, chili peppers, and lunar love
Pokemoglin cards shall be her bane! Massively OP's MJ cannot advance in the AdventureQuest 3D Moistverse collection trove until she collects many, many Pokemoglin...
Betawatch: Star Citizen is in love with a Jumptown girl
Jumptown Girl, she's been living in her alpha world,
It's gonna be revised more with tricks
Beyond the state it's in in 3.16 -
But that's a...
Bitcraft explains its philosophy of skills and progression in a new development diary
As you have probably gathered from what's been mentioned about Bitcraft before now, the game is not meant to be an experience wherein you go...
