After a month of quiet work, Valiance Online updates fans on internal progress - A while back, Valiance Online made a thread on its official forum to keep fans up to date on the internal progress for the game; that way, even with a lack…
Star Citizen previews NPC collision detection, geysers, and shiny spaceship VFX - In this week's episode of Star Citizen Around the Verse, there's a Hammer Time joke. You have been warned. But seriously, the episode focuses on multiple topics: The animation team…
Albion Online focuses on balance with the latest Nimue Patch - Albion Online's newest patch is all about finding the butter zone for maximum PvP satisfaction, which is probably one of the hardest types of butter to churn. The Nimue Balance…
Pantheon recaps January’s progress, previews atmosphere system in latest newsletter - The latest newsletter for Visionary Realms's in-development MMO Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen has been released, and in it the devs pull back the curtain to give players a peek…
Project Gorgon drops big patch with solo dungeon and tons of balance adjustments - Yesterday, we covered Project Gorgon's development cadence and Elder Game developer Eric Heimburg's explanation for why he hadn't just hired on more devs to spit out faster updates. It's worth…
Here’s how AdventureQuest 3D’s brand-new PvP mode will work starting next month - Yes, the time-honored art of punching your fellow players in the face is coming to AdventureQuest 3D, and if you're the sort of person who isn't really fond of having…
Brad McQuaid’s Pantheon elaborates on its alpha timeline modifications - If you've been watching Visionary Realms' MMORPGÂ Pantheon closely, you might be wondering about its development cadence, especially given its timeline shifts. Back at PAX East a year ago, for example,…
Project Gorgon dev on hiring and content cadence: ‘I can confidently say we are not gonna fail’ - Are you grumpy about how long some indie games take to develop? Yeah, join the club - the indie devs are too. That's the takeaway from a long forum post…
Indie superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes releases fresh batch of custom city screenshots - I'd be willing to bet that most fans of City of Heroes would point to things like flight and super jump - especially super jump - as key features of…
Check out the brand-new look for Camelot Unchained’s ability system UI - Camelot Unchained's latest dev blog runs down everything going on in the game's open beta this week, but it's the new ability builder UI and its slick almost Guild Wars…
CIG summarizes development progress for Squadron 42 - Considering the perceptual glacial pace of development for Squadron 42, it's pretty easy to assume that the folks at CIG are sitting on their hands. According to a recent newsletter…
Crowfall’s Raph Koster has some advice for community managers - Community management may be one potential path to making inroads at a development studio, but before you take that job, you'd best heed the advice of one of the MMO…
City of Titans demos the current state of its elaborate character creation - Yesterday's City of Titans update was... pretty horrifying. Fortunately, today's update is probably more like what backers had in mind, as Missing Worlds Media has posted several minutes of footage…
Crowfall welds leveling and talent systems onto its framework - There is a lot for Crowfall's team to discuss this month, what with the delay of the first sanctioned campaign and all of the systems being added to the game.…
Star Citizen Around the Verse is selling a new ship: The Argo SRV - This week's episode of Star Citizen Around the Verse is a little longer than usual, but don't get too excited: It's only because it's frontloaded with a commercial for Star…
Ashes of Creation is preparing a game director’s letter, fans infer that delays are incoming - It appears that all is not well behind the scenes of Ashes of Creation. Intrepid's Steven Sharif has made a few remarks on the game's Discord server to indicate that a…
Battle for divine favor in Crowfall’s Trials of the Gods campaign series - Now that Crowfall has had the time to do some campaign test-runs and make adjustments based on player feedback, thereby delaying sanctioned campaigns, the folks at ArtCraft Entertainment have introduced…
Albion Online adds in anti-cheat software with its latest patch - Cheating is bad in MMOs; we all know and accept this as a reality. Programs you don't really know about being installed on your computer are also bad. So the…
Saga of Lucimia developers are closing the game’s pre-order store as development enters its second stage - Remember the old story from The Onion about Starbucks beginning a sinister "phase two?" That's not at all what's happening with Stage Two of Saga of Lucimia development, but you…
Ship of Heroes updates players on leveling up, powersets to show off, and staffing - Leveling up feels easy enough in games; you get enough experience, there's a flash of light, your level goes up by one. But Ship of Heroes is hard at work…
Dual Universe studio Novaquark expands to Montreal with second studio - How big is Dual Universe? Big enough to need a second studio! While continuing to grow in Paris, Novaquark just announced that it is expanding across the pond by opening…
Camelot Unchained builds out Mages and clarifies how many people battlefields will host - Not even the Seattle snows this past weekend could put a damper on Camelot Unchained. As its latest dev letter notes, City State's multi-city dev team has continued working on…
Shroud of the Avatar’s cash shop is now dispensing buffs when you buy stuff - Shroud of the Avatar players dipping their toes into Release 62 for the first time might want to take a peek at the cash shop too, which is now dispensing…
