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Star Citizen homes in on the mobiGlas, checks in with the UK team, and rolls back alpha 3.1.1
The Star Citizen team is still riding high on the launch of alpha 3.1 last weekend. The latest episode of Around the Verse checks...
Citadel: Forged With Fire upgrades to the newest Unreal Engine
Today's patch for Citadel: Forged With Fire brings the game up to the latest iteration of the Unreal Engine! That's great news, isn't it?...
Sea of Thieves’ patch today mops up bugs and addresses respawn griefing
Still arr-ing and ahoy-matey-ing and avast-ye-ing in Sea of Thieves? Today's patch... well, it's a wee one. Rare says it's fixed a bunch of...
GDC 2018: Bridging and embedding cross-platform online communities
As this year's GDC coverage is winding down, I am finally coming to the topic I saved for last: community. MMOs are more than just...
Dark and Light is devoting April to bug fixes
In the game development sphere, developers take part in two separate but equally important tasks: The development of features to add content to the...
GDC 2018: How to get exploiters to happily surrender in EVE Online
EVE Online is not known for being a happy place. It's shown even in mass media as a cutthroat world of war and theft. Dealing...
Arcfall is going free-to-play with this week’s big pre-alpha patch
If you weren't into plunking down 20 bucks for early access MMORPG Arcfall, then this coming Friday is your lucky day, as the game...
GDC 2018: ARK Park’s Snail Games on VR, science, and the future of the franchise
As you may recall, I was given just a little time to hit up Snail Games' ARK Park a few days before I left for GDC...
Ultima Online’s F2P trial is coming in early April while DAOC hotfixes classes
The Ultima Online team is hard at work "crushing bugs" and preparing for the launch of Endless Journey. The free-to-play Publish 99 is being...
GDC 2018: Exploring SpatialOS with Improbable CCO Bill Roper
SpatialOS: You've probably been seeing this name pop up more and more in the MMO sphere. Worlds Adrift, Mavericks, Fractured, Seed, MetaWorld, and Identity are just some of the titles we've...
Heroes of the Storm introduces Fenix and StarCraft anniversary content
The anniversary of the original StarCraft is getting celebrated in multiple games, and Heroes of the Storm is outright bringing one of its major...
Black Desert rolls out egg hunt, April Fools’ Day event, and new food
Did I not say MMO April Fools' Day was starting early because of the holiday's rude and inconvenient weekend timing this year? Black Desert's...
Guild Wars 2 takes action against PvP match manipulation
Even if you're a winner you could be still be a loser in Guild Wars 2 -- if you cheat. ArenaNet announced that it...
GDC 2018: Ultima Online post-mortem with Richard Garriott, Starr Long, Raph Koster, and Rich Vogel
Plenty of panels at GDC are recorded and uploaded to the internet weeks after the event, including this one. It's not quite the same...
Guild Wars 2 preps Super Adventure Box, patches in direct-buy mounts and CHAIRS
If you try to zoom into Guild Wars 2's Super Adventure Box today, you're... going to be wholly disappointed. That's because while the patch...
Elite: Dangerous goes soft on crime (and that’s a good thing)
Elite: Dangerous made a wonderful and awe-inspiring discovery yesterday in a remote star system: Update 3.0.4 was found floating in orbit around a dead...
GDC 2018: Funcom’s Tor Egil Andersen on Conan Exiles’ early access, launch, and beyond
My initial impressions of Conan Exiles, written just about a year ago, weren't exactly glowing. While I know not every game I play needs to appeal...
Camelot Unchained rescues lost souls trapped underground
In one of the quieter weeks for Camelot Unchained as of late, the dev team nevertheless made progress toward this July's beta test.
Among the...
The Game Archaeologist: Shattered Galaxy
War. War never ends. Especially if it was designed and encouraged to wage forever.
One of the most popular computer gaming genres of the late...
First impressions of the newly launched ARK Park
By the time you read this dear reader, I'll already be dead... dead tired, that is, from running around the Game Developer's Conference talking...
