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What was your reaction when you found out that to hop on board the Oculus Rift train, you were going to need to drop $600 on it? That price point really makes one weigh how important virtual reality is to a gamer. Many games industry analysts are struggling with a proper response to the Rift's cost as well. Some are...

Just when you thought the Greed Monger drama was so 2015, now it's back. The crowdfunded MMO sandbox appeared to have gone belly-up last year when its lead programmer quit as a result of not being paid by the game's project lead, and then the project lead himself quit, and then in May, the lead programmer announced the game was dead....

A long time ago, back in the stone ages of 2014, Bitbox did alpha testing for its upcoming MMO, Life is Feudal. It was an ambitious sandbox with terraforming, building, landownership, bartering, trade routes, diplomacy, and PvP. However, devs discovered (and disclosed to fans) that the small team just couldn't afford to keep heading in the direction they wanted at...

You keep asking for it, so MassivelyOP's Larry and MJ will keep giving it to you: More SWTOR Choose My Alignment adventures. MJ's Agent still has more work to do on Makeb... or is that trouble to get into? That is all up to you, the viewers; whether she plays nice or gets tough all depends on what alignment...

It's become tradition to fare well the MMOs that sunsetted in the preceding year, but that wasn't always the case. At the beginning of 2015, in saying goodbye to 2014's sunsetted games, I tried to put that into perspective. Almost exactly a year ago, I wrote about how Vanguard's early stumbles foreshadowed the changing MMORPG industry. In January 2007, when Vanguard...

VentureBeat is reporting that Gazillion CEO and Marvel Heroes front-man David Brevik has left the company. Interim CEO Dave Dohrmann described the departure as "amicable" and indicated that the studio is seeking a suitable replacement. Brevik, known for his role as head of Blizzard North and one of the founders of the Diablo franchise, originally joined Gazillion over six years...

The next major round of Crowfall testing isn't going to just feature another gameplay mode. It is going to feature that, yes, but it's also going to feature a new archetype, the Ranger. While it's not the first ranged archetype on display in the game, it should provide all-new gameplay experiences thanks to its mechanics, with a focus on...

Back in October, PWE wrote about its plans to massively overhaul Neverwinter's Trade Bar Store -- that is, the special store where you can buy goodies with currency found inside lockboxes. Call it cashshop-ception. As of yesterday, some of the planned changes have been implemented. Of note, fashion wear, dye bottles, and dye packs have all been removed entirely from...

Hailing frequencies are open, captain, and a new Star Citizen broadcast is coming through, loud and clear. CIG has published its latest episode of Around the Verse, clocking in an hour of news, sneak peeks, and interviews with the dev team. The big news is that CIG is holding off on publishing Alpha 2.1 for now, as it wants to...

Development schedules are tricky things. From the outside it's easy to look at them as promises, contracts made between players and developers, but in reality they're more like educated guesses wherein the developers are simply stating their plans and hoping that everything works. This is all a roundabout way of saying that the development plans for Sword Coast Legends...