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Book of Travels previews its paper- and card-inspired user interface
One of the selling points of Book of Travels that originally caught my eye way back before its successful Kickstarter last year was its...
Lord of the Rings Online starts testing Update 26 – now with race changes
A week after Lord of the Rings Online posted its roadmap for the remainder of 2020, the fantasy game put Update 26 on the...
ESRB starts putting warnings about lockboxes on its game ratings
You have to imagine that a lot of video game marketers have developed facial twitches today upon the news that they will no longer...
The Daily Grind: Have you noticed an uptick in players in your MMO of choice?
It's no secret that MMOs and other online games are doing better than usual thanks to the pandemic keeping a large portion of the...
Last Oasis discusses a new walker, meteor strike events, and solutions for zerging
It looks like there's some new things to play with coming to survival sandbox Last Oasis. A new dev blog posted on the game's...
The Daily Grind: How have pandemic responses affected your MMO socializing?
Last week, my kids and I were playing Trove when I realized that global chat was absolutely filled with blabbering about the virus. It's...
Global Chat: Becoming a bear in Wizard101
You've created characters to play in MMOs, but have you ever actually wanted to be a permanent part of one? Tom Purdue over at...
Path of Exile players have died almost 5,000,000 times in delirium orb maps so far
Path of Exile has shared some neat info this week in the wake of the Delirium league, most notably for delirium orbs themselves. These...
Battle Bards Episode 166: LEGO Universe
Who knew that interlocking brick systems would result in so many video games — and a pretty good soundtrack? The Battle Bards step on...
Massively Overthinking: What generates trust in MMO crowdfunding for you?
Last week, an anonymous game developer posted on the MMORPG Reddit about the broader MMO playerbase's frustrations with crowdfunding. See, this dev says he's...
Chronicles of Elyria boss says development is still ongoing, still seeking funding
Over the last couple of weeks, we've been covering the abrupt cancellation of Chronicles of Elyria, a Kickstarted MMORPG that raised millions of dollars...
Check out Population Zero’s new combat video – and pick up a key for this weekend’s beta
Population Zero is dropping two fun things today for watchers of the MMO survival sandbox: a dev blog all about combat, including a new...
For Science: Steam just told on itself with its new games performance analysis
Steam has long been regarded as a pit of doom, loaded with asset flips and scams, where where indies go to die and MMO...
Global Chat: High adventure in Dungeons and Dragons Online
If there was ever an MMO that was made for parties to adventure together, it is Dungeons and Dragons Online. Telwyn over at GamingSF...
Magic Legends’ combat is going to make you ‘think on your feet’
Can Magic Legends take the frenetic pace of action combat and introduce tactics into the mix? Cryptic says that, yes, it can do just...
EVE Online crowns its Champion of Lowsec, posts Pulse video and charity campaign
Last week, EVE Online challenged player alliances and corps to blow up the most stuff possible in the Champions of Lowsec event and offered...
Saga of Lucimia promotes pre-orders with a weekend alpha test
We suspect that your weekend plans are generally pretty open, so maybe you'd be interested in a group-centric MMORPG to try out? If you...
Massively Overthinking: How are MMO players faring through the pandemic?
This week's Overthinking is going to be a bit different from normal. As we've been covering extensively for more than the past two months,...
Vague Patch Notes: Chronicles of Elyria’s road to nowhere
I honestly cannot stop thinking about Chronicles of Elyria. Not in the sense of surprise, mind you; this was pretty much one of the...
EVE Online details management of the sandbox ecosystem and explains the intention of resource distribution
The one constant in EVE Online is that things are always changing, but sometimes it's not always clear why things are changing. In a...
