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H1Z1 has become an equal opportunity undead employer. The zombie sandbox patched in female zombies yesterday, expanding the variety of the walking dead that players will encounter. The update didn't stop there but also included the blood-splattered Kurama hospital, two-player ATVs, and a new mercenary crate to loot. Due to all of the changes, the team performed a full wipe and consolidated some...

Time's a-wasting! With just a month left to get ready for those terrors that await down in the subterranean world of Thalumbra, EverQuest II fans are running out of time to prepare themselves for this upcoming 12th expansion. If you find yourself in that predicament, never fear -- that's why EverQuesting is here! I know what it is like...

The planets of Elite: Dangerous are procedurally generated, like most of the game. But how does the game pull that trick off? How can the developers plant you on a random planet and have it feel like it's an actual place instead of just a collection of resource nodes? That question is what's answered in an hour-long video from...

Before I start this column, I want to say two important things. First, my experiences do not extend outward to the limits of the MMO genre; it's quite possible that the good versions of these systems are already out there and I just haven't seen them. Second, all of these are ideas that I want to be present. The...

Stronghold Kingdoms is a rich castle-themed MMORTS with over six years of operation under its belt, and this week, it's patching in a new expansion. The Global Conflict update adds a massive landmass and increases the number of battling countries to 151. If you've been curious about the MMORTS genre, then put your party hat on because we've got 1000 Stronghold Kingdoms gift pack...

Studio Wildcard has pushed the first pass of breeding and baby dinosaurs into its live build of ARK: Survival Evolved. Players may pair off two members of the same species and after Mother Nature works her magic, they'll have a baby dino with a random selection of traits from both parents along with "a degree of arbitrary mutation." The devs hope to...

It's a week until Guild Wars 2's first expansion launches (at 3:01 a.m. EDT on October 23rd, to be precise), and ArenaNet's Colin Johanson has a pep talk for those about to embark on the next stage of this game. "As developers, this is the most exciting time for all of us: to finally have something we’ve spent over a...

With 15 years of history under its belt, RuneScape can't help but show its age. But there's a new client on the way, and one of the presentations at the game's RuneFest convention showed off the client whilst discussing its overall design goals and philosophy. You can check it out now in a video embedded just below. If you're trying...

Loving those WildStar tunes? Then it's high time you met the man behind the game's enormous and beloved soundtrack, Composer Jeff Kurtenacker. Top Shelf Gaming interviewed Kurtenacker about his continuing work to score the sci-fi MMO. So what were some of his techniques? "When I started writing, I wanted to embrace the sci-fi-ness of it," Kurtenacker said. "This is where...

I don't often look at a screenshot and think to myself, hmm, I should play that game. Yesterday I did exactly that, though, thanks to the Skyforge image in the header. I can't put my finger on what appealed to me either, other than some weird sci-fi cyberpunk vibe coming off a game that I heretofore assumed to be...