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Elite Dangerous' David Braben has a big spread in Rolling Stone's Glixel blog this week, and it's a fun read as he zips around discussing Trappist-1, Roman slavery, Star Wars, ant society, Shakespeare, Ursula Le Guin, computer science jobs, and the future of humanity. It's a whirlwind, but he does eventually get around to talking about Elite itself, admitting...

ROHK rocks! The survival sandbox set on Mars turned out to be quite interesting when Massively OP's MJ first checked it out. With the latest patch wiping all servers, she'll need to do plenty more scavenging through the abandoned outpost and recover as many meteor supply drops as she can in order to build a little safe structure and...

Did you know that Brad McQuaid's Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is not meant to be for everyone? Probably, because the game sort of likes to offer a mission statement to that effect on a semi-regular basis. McQuaid's most recent post about the MMO industry and developing games counts on that spectrum, too, as it serves as a lengthy...

Soon, Star Trek Online will be heading to the next big Star Trek convention in Las Vegas, with big announcements for the future of the game and what comes next. For the moment, however, the game is going to be keeping its players entertained with the Season 13.5 patch. This patch sees a new featured episode, Brushfire, sending players...

Bummed out over that weak Guild Wars 2 fractal tease last week? We're getting to the good stuff today: ArenaNet has just announced that the third season living world finale is titled One Path Ends. "As the season began, the heroes celebrated their victory over the Elder Dragon Mordremoth—unaware that the magic formerly channeled and absorbed through Mordremoth was coming...

Apparently I am a pot-stirrer. On my side blog, Bio Break, I like to throw out conversation starters every now and then, and one such recent post concerned side quests. Namely, I mused about getting rid of them altogether in MMORPGs. This generated a lot of interesting conversation around the subject among other bloggers. In An Age said that side...

If you've never been excited by Elder Scrolls Online's PvP before, maybe ZeniMax's new PvP event will entice you. It's called Midyear Mayhem, and it comes with loot. Loot, I say! "Players can earn unique rewards like the exclusive Midyear Victor’s Laurel Wreath hat, and earn double Alliance Points, PvP gear, and rare crafting items during the event. Loot and...

Yeah, we're way far off from PAX West, but so what! Ashes of Creation has released a trailer today featuring PvP arena content that will be demoing at the Seattle con next month. "That's right, Intrepid Studios is bringing Ashes of Creation to PAX West this September (1st through 4th), and we're bringing a big tasty playable build for all...

If you've missed the memo, World of Warcraft is taking players to Argus in patch 7.3. That's the former home of the Draenei, a stronghold of the Burning Legion, and probably not a great place to stop if you're looking for the best boneless wings money can buy. Previews for the areas of Mac'Aree and Krokuun are now available...

Back in June, Neowiz and Aeria Games/Gamigo confirmed that they'd mutually ended their partnership to make Aeria the western Bless Online publisher. While initially the studios stated the MMO had been canceled for our region and wasn't coming westward at all thanks to "quality standards" and "technical difficulties cannot be overcome," Neowiz quickly moved to suggest that it would be publishing the game...