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Funcom stresses the importance of lore and mystery in Conan Exiles

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Conan lore is probably the most contentious thing about the franchise, and Funcom today has clarified the focus of that lore in Conan Exiles when...

The Repopulation will relaunch in Q1 2017, now owned by Idea Fabrik

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"Great News! The Repopulation is coming back!" -- or so said a hastily deleted tweet from Idea Fabrik last night, which you might have...

Neverwinter: Better dungeon loot and expansion preview

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A January 11th patch for Neverwinter might have been one of those updates with little tweaks and fixes that your eyes gloss over, save...
There was something beautiful and wonderful and it destroyed itself.

Massively Overthinking: Tab-target vs. action combat in MMORPGs

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Massively OP patron Duane is kicking the new year off right: with a brawl over combat types in MMOs. "Tab-target, action, or hybrid combat, for...

Here’s how Crowfall is tweaking resource harvesting for Big World

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Crowfall Design Lead Thomas "Blixtev" Blair has a new dev blog out this afternoon on the resource harvesting slice of the big world testing going...

MMOs Chronicles of Elyria, Dual Universe, and AQ3D were among top crowdfunded games of 2016

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Fig, the gaming crowdfunding platform that surged in popularity in 2016 thanks to successful Wasteland 3 and Psychonauts 2 campaigns, has released a list of...

Global Chat Extra: In remembrance of Landmark

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Obviously, the reverberations of the news of Landmark's closure continue to be seen across the MMO community, including in our own comments sections. The...

Atlas Reactor is going ‘fully free-to-play’ next week

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Good things are on the horizon for Trion Worlds' plucky Atlas Reactor, which is getting ready to go into its second season next week. According...

EVE Evolved: Five EVE video shows to watch in 2017

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Over the past several years, the way in which we receive gaming news and the types of gaming media we follow has changed pretty fundamentally. Today's...

Battle Bards Episode 89: Nightfall

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When the sun goes down, the Battle Bards’ work has just begun! In this week’s episode, the crew explores nighttime music cues in MMOs,...

Global Chat: The Standing Stone standoff

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Following the announcement of LOTRO and DDO's new studio and the subsequent cancellation of the Asheron's Call games, you can better believe that the...

Chronicles of Elyria has raised $2 million to date

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In case you forgot or weren't aware, this time last year, Chronicles of Elyria was basically four devs in a basement who were being...

Dark and Light lays out its world map for your inspection

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The new and hopefully improved Dark and Light is pushing some of its features harder than others, in particular the size of its game...

Massively Overthinking: Our MMORPG gaming resolutions for 2017

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Are you the type of gamer to make resolutions? I'm not, but I know a lot of people who map out their year ahead...

Global Chat: Boobs and wrinkles edition

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Is the infamous "chainmail bikini" slowly disappearing from western RPGs and MMOs? Pete at Dragonchasers thinks that it is... and he kind of laments...

Battle Bards Episode 88: Revelation Online

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The new hotness on the MMO scene is Revelation Online, the Chinese import that has gamers abuzz with its flashy graphics and rounded theme...

Happy birthday, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and thanks for the trailer

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Star Wars: The Old Republic is celebrating its fifth birthday this week, and to celebrate, Producer Ben Irving has penned a new dev blog...
The sad loser peering across the landscape photo genre.

Check out some purty screenshots of Chronicles of Elyria’s weather and world

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Making its way to Kickstarter backers today is December blog piece from Chronicles of Elyria covering... the weather. OK, so that sounds like small-talk on...

City of Titans looks at the Five Dragons gang

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Superhero games aren't much fun without villains to beat up, and in a superhero MMO, there needs to be a lot of those. City...
The fun of getting lost, being upset, and getting annoyed.

Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMORPG stories of the year

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Earlier this week, we posted our award for the biggest MMORPG story of the year -- the one we thought had the biggest impact...

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