Camelot Unchained shifts dev focus to beta gameplay - From the sound of this week's Camelot Unchained newsletter, the team at City State is having a lot more fun now that beta development is starting to shift from engine…
Crowfall teases next week’s teases for May 16 reveal - Who wants a teaser for more teasers! Nobody? Bad news because we're getting some anyway, so go make some popcorn. A lot of it. The teaser for the teaser swirls…
Realm Zero seeks funds for its ‘evolving’ world vision - What can one man do with four years of spare time, a computer, and a fondness for video games? If you're Hank Newman, you throw yourself into making your very…
Valiance Online previews City Hall and the hospital - The team behind Valiance Online wants to show you everything there is to be seen within the game. Of course, you can't see it yourself at the moment, but that's…
Mark Hamill caps off Star Citizen’s latest Around the Verse - This week's episode of Around the Verse sees Star Citizen's Chris Roberts and Sandi Gardiner bookending the Austin studio update and tech check-in. The Austin branch is focused on major features…
Path of Exile on the ripple effect of DOT changes - Moar dots! Grinding Gear Games has so much to say about Path of Exile's changes to damage-over-time skills, you guys. Reams. Whole manifestos. It's actually kind of excessive for an…
Fat men can’t jump: Chronicles of Elyria sends studio teams on project ‘adventures’ - With four times the staff than it had at this time last year, Soulbound Studios is going full-steam on Chronicles of Elyria and all of its pre-alpha projects. To make…
Valiance Online muses about a sidekicking system - Sidekicking and mentoring were among the best and most-used features in City of Heroes, but will one of its spiritual successors take a cue from these systems? On Valiance Online's…
‘Reputation should matter’: Crowfall ties your account name to your character name - Anonymous griefers, Crowfall might not be the game for you. In May's developer Q&A video, the team clarified that players' character names will be the same as their account names…
Pantheon unveils the second part of its early Monk preview - Harsh environments, energetic punches, and the ever-present specter of death, all of this can be found within the archive of the most recent Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen livestream event.…
Legends of Aria delays next alpha test to May 12 - The Game Formerly Known As Shards Online (which can also be represented by an abstract symbol or its new name, Legends of Aria) announced a slight delay in the start…
Albion Online retools combination PvP PvE Hellgate maps - As part of Albion Online's pre-beta overhaul, developer Sandbox Interactive is retooling the game's existing Hellgates. No, not that Hellgate. In Albion, Hellgates are basically free-for-all PvP zones with seriously badass…
Path of Exile previews updated NPC models and adds new cosmetics to its store - [AL:POE]Since Path of Exile's next major update is really heavy on story, it's the perfect time for the team behind the game to work on updating old NPC models around…
How Shroud of the Avatar’s night sky impacts gameplay - Other than for providing an atmospheric backdrop to night questing, starry skyboxes in MMOs don't really mean or do much. This is not the case for Shroud of the Avatar,…
Chronicles of Elyria gives extra goodies to its Kickstarter backers - Did you help to fund Chronicles of Elyria when it ran its Kickstarter campaign almost a year ago? The team at Soulbound Studios would like to reward you for your…
Elite Dangerous’ novel-concluding Salomé event was wrecked by long-con griefers - Last week, we reported on an impending roleplaying event in Elite Dangerous that was set to influence the outcome of Premonition, a game-based novel by author Drew Wagar. What players…
Shroud of the Avatar adds a small patch with a hidden message - There's a hidden message in the patch notes for Shroud of the Avatar's small patch from yesterday. What could it possibly mean? Is it something about the fact that several…