campaign
Happy birthday, classic Guild Wars
Classic Guild Wars turned 11 years old this week, and I'm sorry to say that by the time you read this, the in-game party...
Global Chat: What can MMORPG devs do to foster community?
One of the neat aspects of the MMO blogosphere is how writers will often interact and collaborate with each other. Recently, four bloggers ganged...
EVE Fanfest 2016: CCP Falcon on Fanfest, the EVE community, and harassment
Over its almost 13 years of operation, sci-ci MMO EVE Online has gained a largely undeserved reputation for antisocial behaviour. EVE is built on...
Exile Online invites you into a dark cyberpunk world
Jonesing for a nice bite of cyberpunk in your MMO diet? Then you might want to keep one augmented eye on Exile Online, an upcoming...
PAX East 2016: Hands-on with Perfect World’s Livelock
People who know me know that if there's just one thing in this world that I'm passionate about, it's probably robots. Robots are a...
The Game Archaeologist: Saga of Ryzom
Every so often I get requests to cover such-and-such game in this column. These are often incredibly obscure titles, even to me, and when...
Perfect Ten: What I loved about Dungeons and Dragons Online
Dungeons and Dragons Online was a very strange game at first glance.
Ten years ago, I ventured into Stormreach with no more motivation than a longstanding...
PAX East 2016: Mars survival game ROKH delivers demo, preps Kickstarter
The next week may be crucial to the future of ROKH, a persistent survival sandbox that happens to be set on Mars. Darewise Entertainment...
Crowfall interview covers the campaign system at length
Wrapping your head around Crowfall's PvP campaigns can take some doing, especially as ArtCraft is angling at a different approach than what most MMOs take. Italian...
LUX looks for other investors as its Kickstarter comes up short
Things aren't looking good for LUX's Kickstarter campaign. With a little over two days left to go, the multi-platform survival MMO has only raised...
Crowfall shares details on the upcoming Throne War test version
The current test module of Crowfall, Siege Perilous, is all about taking on a keep's defenses and taking control. In theory, anyhow; in practice...
What to expect from Atlas Reactor’s closed beta launching today
Atlas Reactor, Trion's turn-based, MOBA-esque PvP game, just finished up its final alpha testing this past weekend, and today, the studio officially kicks off its closed beta. Before...
The harsh lesson City of Titans learned from Kickstarter
When fans bankrolled a project to bring a superhero MMO to live to the tune of a little over $678,000, it wasn't without a...
Neverwinter’s tabletop campaign delivers a month of prizes
Neverwinter's not-quite-an-April-Fools-joke tabletop game is scheduled to run through the entire month of April. This is not just to give players a chance of...
Crowfall Q&A talks about Eternal Kingdoms and next playable archetypes
The Crowfall community has no end of questions for the ArtCraft team, and ArtCraft has no end of time to answer them. Actually, today...
Spellcheck won’t help you in TERA’s new Seek & Spell event
Live with TERA's maintenance patch today is an contest-slash-event En Masse is calling Seek & Spell, so: Dictionaries at the ready!
For the next three...
Star Trek Online launches Season 11.5 today
Are you tired of Star Trek Online's clunky old skill system? Are you eager to start showing your strategic side in space battles? Do...
The Game Archaeologist: Guild Wars Utopia
Aztecs. Chronomancers. Mounts. Halberds. Golems. Dual wielding.
These are all but a hint of what a fourth Guild Wars campaign could have been, a campaign...
Dive into the maw of Doom’s open beta next week
The newest iteration of Id Software's demon shooter Doom is almost upon us. Doom -- the first entry in the classic series since 2004's...
The Island is a small-scale co-op survival game
You know what I love about foreign video game press releases? They are very often free of bullshit. So it is with a PR...