character creation
Chronicles of Elyria eschews ‘silly stat-fest’ MMO gear in favor of ‘dramatic realism’
Now that Chronicles of Elyria has got a handle on its flexible character creation system, the team has switched over to working in the...
Chronicles of Elyria puts constraints on your character’s creation
"Character creation" is the watchword of the week at Chronicles of Elyria. In addition to a developer livestream that showed off the first iteration...
Chronicles of Elyria demos its character creator in front of a live studio audience
Who's ready to look super-duper freaky? Chronicles of Elyria, that's who!
The in-development indie MMO demonstrated the first iteration of its character creation system in...
Legends of Aria is pushing out a quality-of-life patch ahead of PAX East
The next big patch for Legends of Aria does not signal the start of the next beta phase. Instead, it signals moving to a...
Wild West Online outlines the massive changes coming March 20
Hoo-ee. There's a whole mess of stuff in the newest patch for Wild West Online, so much so that the patch notes are jam-packed...
The Daily Grind: Are you playing Sea of Thieves?
It's officially Sea of Thieves day; the game launched here in the US in the wee hours of this morning. During our awards rollout...
Interview: ArcheAge 4.5 Legends Return launches April 5th with dragon taming and fresh start servers
If I were to tell you that ArcheAge's next big update is launching next month, you'd tell me that it's too soon. And we'd...
Choose My Adventure: Already captured in Warframe
You know, I've been oddly impressed with the starting experience for the past couple of titles I've been playing in Choose My Adventure. Both...
Choose My Adventure: Voting for the start of Warframe
The votes are in, and I'm heading to the world of Warframe. Or worlds. I am honestly not altogether clear about how much of...
Perfect Ten: What I discovered after returning to Dungeons and Dragons Online
When I look back at last year, the most surprising turn in my MMO gaming career was staging a successful return to Dungeons and...
Final Fantasy XIV announces an end to congested worlds and restricted housing sales
The launch of Final Fantasy XIV's new housing plots came with an additional restriction: Players weren't allowed to purchase these new plots as individuals,...
Crowfall’s latest development stream is all about hello and goodbye
If you missed the most recent development livestream from Crowfall's team, you can watch it now just below. And it's covering a lot of...
Sea of Thieves will make your character for you
As an online multiplayer RPG, Sea of Thieves is making its own playbook instead of copy-and-pasting features and structure directly from other games. One...
City of Titans introduces its costume designer while teasing character creation
We haven't seen the character creation for City of Titans just yet, but you know that's going to be an important part of the...
WoW Factor: First impressions of allied race leveling in World of Warcraft
Last week, I wrote about the addition of allied races without having actually gotten to play around with them much. You have to understand...
Crowfall explains its new approach to character selection with the Crypt
As it currently stands in Crowfall, you are not the character that's marching around. You are a little shining blue crow, which is what...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 155: Pirates, progression, and patches
Justin and Bree discuss Age of Conan, FFXIV, SWTOR, Closers, EVE Online, Sea of Thieves, WoW, and Guild Wars 2, with mailbag questions on non-combat MMO options and playing MMOs with a newborn.
Chronicles of Elyria isn’t afraid to enter the ugly zone of character creation
It's a no-brainer that a lot of your MMO audience is going to want to create good-looking, attractive, and physically fit characters. But if...
Snail Games introduces PixARK, heading to early access in March
So you're a Minecraft kind of soul. You like that sort-of-pixelish-but-not-really look. Your friend is an ARK: Survival Evolved junkie. She's more about dinosaurs...
WoW Factor: The debate over World of Warcraft’s refer-a-friend nerf
Ah, another day and another thing to enrage people in World of Warcraft. Last time, it was that the Allied Race unlocks might (will)...
