TERA update is live on PC with the PvP Shore Hold battleground and PvE dungeon
When TERA players get tired of whaling on giant monsters, they turn to whaling on each other with giant weapons. Hey, they have a...
The Bethsoft-Behavior lawsuit is over, and now so is Westworld mobile
One of the big gaming legal disputes of 2018 was the lawsuit Bethsoft lodged against Behaviour Interactive over the release of the Westworld mobile game,...
Project Horseshoe’s design papers confirm decades of MMORPG lessons
Not everyone involved in game design is trying to squeeze every last penny out of you. Yes, a lot of them are, but many...
Modern-fantasy dungeon-crawler Breach enters early access tomorrow
After spending the last few months in alpha testing, multiplayer dungeon-crawler Breach is almost ready to make the leap to early access, allowing players...
Riot tackles toxic corporate culture with updated company values
In the wake of the gender-discrimination and sexual-harassment scandal that has plagued Riot Games for the past year -- which last month resulted in...
Lost Ark updates with more storage while outlining future content plans
The update train for Lost Ark keeps rolling on in the game's beta. The most recent patch (which has translated notes here, if for some...
With the Improbable/Unity dispute lingering on, MMOs like Worlds Adrift are literally adrift
Last week, Improbable and Unity stunned the gaming industry with their ugly spat over SpatialOS integration and licensing, as both companies issued statements about their...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2019
Working in this field has given me something of a sense of how a lot of the industry is going to play out. Take...
Closers will merge its NA and EU servers into a single world server on January 29
This month, anime-action MMO Closers will be bringing continents together as it merges its NA and EU servers into a single worldwide server in...
Pantheon maps out 2019, promising new website, Faerthale development, and more
Brad McQuaid's Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is kicking off 2019 with a new edition of its newsletter that recaps 2018 - including our...
After telling Blizzard to cut spending, Activision pays $15 million bonus to new CFO
Hey, do y'all remember a little bit back when Activision told Blizzard that it had to start cutting back on its spending? Oh, and...
Black Desert’s battle royale mode, Shadow Arena, hits early access for current players today
Black Desert is formally hopping on the battle royale bandwagon this week with the "early access" release of Shadow Arena today. How does a...
Nexon’s ‘next-gen’ mobile MMO AxE: Alliance vs Empire is coming westward ‘soon this year’
Nexon is fairly well known for being one of the most prolific developers of MMOs in the industry, and today the studio announced that...
Electronic Arts cancels its untitled open-world Star Wars game
Remember that open-world Star Wars game that Electronic Arts' Vancouver studio was working on after the company closed down the previous studio that had...
Project Gorgon’s latest update features more robust zombies, skill-training changes
When it comes to cheap labor, you really can't beat zombies in terms of pure value, but sometimes that whole being dead thing makes...
Steam is rolling out better store discoverability, mobile chat, and library improvements in 2019
Valve is surely feeling a bit frazzled over Epic and Discord's power plays in the last few months, but you wouldn't know it from...
Two months later, classic Ingress has better reviews than the buggy Ingress Prime reboot
When Niantic rebooted Ingress as Ingress Prime back in November, it was after a year of work effectively porting the classic MMOARPG to Pokemon Go's...
Elder Scrolls Online will launch Elsweyr and Necromancer in June, Wrathstone DLC in February
ZeniMax has just revealed that Elsweyr, homeland of the Khajiit, is indeed Elder Scrolls Online's next chapter. The devs kicked off their stream with...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 204: SpatialOS spasms
Justin and Bree discuss the Unity vs. SpatialOS showdown, the Destiny 2 Activision split and investigation, Elite's massive event, big updates for Guild Wars 2, FFXIV, and LOTRO, plus our adventures in ESO, LOTRO, SWG, and DDO, and reader mail on games that don't click with you, the MMOs we'd like to see built, and video game eyeballs.
EVE Online’s first release of the year is really smashing rocks
You move 16 tons (of asteroids), what do you get? Another hour of skill training and a whole lot of destroyed asteroids, plus a...
