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Food in MMORPGs usually exists to provide luxury buffs for characters heading into raids, but for Crowfall it will be present to keep players from becoming chickens. According to a dev blog on the new food system, characters will need to eat somewhat regularly in the game to keep their food meter high. The meter is depleted over time and...

A weekly progress dispatch from Camelot Unchained is as reliable as clockwork of late. In this particular case, it's a bit earlier than normal because of a wedding that'll pull most of the staff away, but the important thing is the update itself, right? Right. And there's plenty in the update like always, with the game implementing several improvements...

Half of the fun to be had in Champions Online is just about putting together a character costume. Unfortunately, that's gotten more and more complicated over the years; pieces have been miscategorized, the categories have become both too broad and too numerous, and players have been stuck struggling to find the costume pieces that they want. It was overdue...

A new expansion is as good an excuse as any to stir the pot and make big changes to an MMO, since players are already in the mode to adapt. Blizzard is tossing in several adjustments to professions come World of Warcraft: Legion in the hopes of providing more "flavor" for crafters and gatherers. In a profession livestream yesterday, Senior Game...

I really, really do not like long leveling grinds. Let me rephrase. I don't mind long leveling paths where the levels don't actually mean much in the game, when time-to-level stays roughly the same and where the curve is very shallow. You can have a cap of 500, but if it flies by, and if a level 50 isn't that far...

Brad McQuaid's Visionary Realms is planning to demo its pragmatic throwback MMORPG Pantheon tonight live on stream. "After much glee and celebration of first stream in March, Visionary Realms is ready to show off all new game content for Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen. Thursday, June 23rd at 6pm PDT Brad McQuaid, Chris Perkins and John Diasparra will take...

Last time, MassivelyOP's MJ went out hunting to prepare for opening her own Museum of the Occult in The Secret World. Today, she gets to open it! How many displays can she afford to put up? And how many displays have others managed to set up? Join us live at 8:15 p.m. for a live tour of one or...

This week's Massively Overthinking comes to us from one of our dear Patreon Patrons, Duane. "There seems to be an ever broadening attitude towards what is pay-to-win. Recently I was in a conversation with a few other MMO players who insisted that if players could purchase max gear with in-game currency, then the game was pay-to-win, especially if the game...

Heads-up for any out there who thought that Fragmented's enemy mobs were timid push-overs: Those days are over. A new build for The Repopulation survival spin-off has given a motivational speech for these NPCs, and as such the AI has become a lot more aggressive toward players. These mobs will chase players for longer and have an easier time navigating obstacles...

Albion Online is in the middle of a big revamp ahead of its beta later this summer -- new weapons, new maps, new biomes. Today, Sandbox Interactive adds a retooled guild vs. guild system to that list -- that'd be guild battles, 5v5 fights that allow groups to "fight and conquer territory around the world." The new system will include...