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This is pretty much a "water is wet" sort of story, especially for those of us who have seen messy MMO and online game launches before, but we still want to touch back on Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout as the game officially launched yesterday with a bit of a sputtering start. The game first tried to go live stealthily but...

Prior to this whole virus thing, one thing that I was enjoying about MMOs was how they (along with ideas taken from social media) were influencing other genres, particularly when that involves merging tech and real-life spaces to create immersive spaces and games. The idea of themeparks playing with this has been awesome in the literal sense, in that...

Whenever an MMO touts its client getting an upgrade in bits, I'm brought screaming backwards in time to my console war years when the bit size of a system was somehow an effective marketing strategy. In the case of the PC version of TERA, the upcoming update to a 64-bit client is less about marketing and more about the...

The introduction of Black Desert's season servers this summer was my chocolate-in-peanut-butter moment of the year. I didn't know the combination would be so good! Other players seem to think so as well. The special season servers were pretty packed throughout the entire season, and there was never a dull moment in server chat! It was also nice to see...

Sportsball is pretty strange in pandemic times, as the professional leagues and kiddie teams alike are struggling to find safe ways to return to group sports. The same isn't true in Overwatch, where the shooter's version of The Olympics has returned once again. "Grab your beach ball and join the fun in Overwatch Summer Games 2020. Earn new summery rewards...

GDC Summer 2020 is running all this week, and I'm, well, at home. But much like Pokemon Go, the convention adapted, and while I've had a few "con" moments already, it doesn't feel like it's adapted quite as well as POGO. Lucky for GDC and us, Niantic "sent" Product Lead Matt Slemon and Senior Game Designer Laura Warner into the...

It's been only a week since Guild Wars 2 dropped its latest content episode, but already the ArenaNet team is moving to the next festival: Festival of the Four Winds, launching once again on August 11th. "The Festival of the Four Winds returns on August 11! Whether you relax by chilling out at the beach or blowing off steam in...

Let's face it: Sometimes, playing MMORPGs -- as with any video game -- has the potential to stress us out. We might feel under pressure to get all of those dailies done, to bring our A-game to raids, or to scramble to get holiday events done before the end date arrives. Personally, I'm not a big fan of being stressed...

Black Desert and Black Desert Mobile both have some things going on in the news today, as is very often the case for these games, so allow me to once again offer you this bundle of Black Desert treats to look over. We'll start with the mobile version, which has introduced a new mode known as the Path of Glory...

So yesterday's Fallout 76 patch did... not go to plan. Bethsoft added the foundation for A Colossal Problem to the game, and that's not a euphemism, mind you; that's actually what it's called, though the playable part was pulled before it went live. In any case, the patch has been a colossal problem indeed since it hit the servers...