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You may recall a while back when we highlighted Titan Reach as a game that you might not have heard of before. The game's Kickstarter is live now, with a target goal of just over $430,000 for this particular project. (It's converted from AUD, where the target is $588,000.) So what does the actual project entail? Well... it describes itself...

Last week, I taught my freshman classes basic email etiquette. In a time of distance learning, it's an important skill to teach. We looked into why etiquette matters, writing professionally, and that CC stands for "carbon copy." I also taught them how to properly use it. I'm too young to have ever used it during my own teaching practice, but...

The Epic/Apple legal drama continues as this week Apple's filed its response to Epic's request to force Fortnite back on the Appstore, and you may want to pick up some extra popcorn and maybe some sunscreen because Apple's lawyers have decided to bring some burns to this filing: They assert that Fortnite is basically flagging in popularity and that...

Finding quests in World of Warcraft is not exactly what you would call "difficult," as the game famously stuck giant floating exclamation marks over quest givers and slapped notations all over the game map. But what Blizzard hasn't telegraphed is the fact that for years now, the studio's been slipping secret quests into its MMO. Some of these quests are...

An alternate headline for this story could just as easily been "Everything Black Desert got content," but I think Bree would dislike me if I tried to pull that off. The point stands, though: Every platform the MMORPG is on has seen some form of new content, so let's dig in. On mobile, players are experiencing the darkness of Hadum,...

There's another big content update on the way to Dauntless on September 17th, and this one has a few new poisonous tricks up its sleeve. This update is all about Untamed Wilds, and as its name would suggest, it's focused on plant growth of the more violent and dangerous sort. I was given the opportunity by the folks at...

There's a fresh face over at Crowfall, though it's one long-time MMORPG veterans will remember: Crowfall has picked up a new community manager, Diane Migliaccio. ArtCraft mentions only a few games, Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies, as part of Migliaccio's multi-decade record in the industry, but fans will probably remember the name Tiggs from her work on Hellgate...

If you are one of the many, many people who were ready for World of Warcraft's current expansion to be over and done with on August 15th, 2018, the past couple of months have no doubt been interminable. But the good news is that the pre-patch for Shadowlands has drawn as close as it can to release without... you know, releasing....

What could online gaming look like going forward? That was the overall topic discussed by a number of devs as part of in a panel at PAX Online 2020, which was hosted by Margaret Krohn from Ashes of Creation and composed of Ashes of Creation's Steven Sharif, Amazon Studios' John Smedley, Crowfall's J. Todd Coleman, and Pantheon: Rise of the...

For players who have characters stranded on dead or undesirable worlds in Lord of the Rings Online, the question of when Standing Stone Games will be able to re-enable server transfers is of no small importance. There's some hope that this will happen soon, although no date has been given yet. On September 12th, the studio announced that "we are...