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Desert Oasis: Recapping Black Desert’s Heidel Ball, from backstage to balancing
One of the complications of playing playing Black Desert is that it operates on UTC. Since I live in California, aka the center of...
Star Wars Galaxies Legends shows off Bespin, paves the way for Empire Day 2020
Things are still being updated in the rogue server known as Star Wars Galaxies Legends in 2020, and the latest community transmission newsletter has...
The MOP Up: Second Life’s super expensive brothel
It's not every week that my editor marches up to me and demands that I cover virtual brothels as headlining stories, but this did...
Global Chat: Does SWTOR fail in the end for (Han) soloers?
As his name suggests, FibroJedi is a big Star Wars: The Old Republic player -- but even so, he is not above criticizing the...
One Shots: Posing is half the battle
It's not just enough to tote around a legendary weapon in your MMO -- you're going to need to learn that posing is half...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG has the best music system?
A few weeks back, I was swapping my SWG Legends character to a new class when my five-year-old daughter started begging me to swap...
WRUP: The Peter & Gordon world transfer corollary sheet edition
To whom it may concern,
Thank you for your interest in this brave new existence of an alternate reality. Before the transfer is complete, please...
The Daily Grind: Helmet on, helmet off?
It's the perennial question of MMORPG characters: Do you wear a helmet or not?
This may be a trickier question than it first seems. Avatar...
OrbusVR plans summer events, treasure hunting, and economy tweaks for the rest of 2020
With OrbusVR's recent mini story pack behind it, the devs are moving on to the content coming for the rest of 2020, starting with...
Arcfall fleshes out its sandbox world, hopes for a 2020 launch
It has been two years since the old school-flavored Arcfall entered early access on Steam... and two years later, it still sits in early...
WoW Factor: Shadowlands needs an excitement boost it’s not getting
Back in February, I wrote about how Blizzard could help restore some player confidence about Shadowlands. And we're a few months in, and... yeah, that's...
The Daily Grind: Should gamers be entitled to jump MMO queues if they sub?
The launch of Elder Scrolls Online's Greymoor this week was a bit of a bungle, though not one we've never seen before. Launching MMOs...
Massively Overthinking: Are MMO developers stuck in the past?
Earlier this month - so what feels like at least a few years ago - the MMO community amused itself jousting over comments from...
GeForce NOW lets game publishers opt-in, Guild Wars 2 and Albion Online decide to opt-out
The stumble-stepped release of Nvidia's cloud-based games service GeForce NOW is having another wobbling point. Nvidia has elected to let game developers and publishers...
Fallout 76 interview: Bethsoft on One Wasteland, text chat, and other radioactive topics
After a year and a half of regrettable design and business decisions (not to mention unending castigation in the media and among the community),...
First Impressions: Phantasy Star Online 2’s technical clownshow mangled its PC launch
Phantasy Star Online 2 is, bar none, the absolute worst experience I have ever had with trying to get a game working on my...
Black Desert has a horsey event and a schedule for the digital Heidel Ball, mobile has an Enraged Red Nose
It's horsey time in Black Desert! Technically, any time can be horsey time, but the latest update has a very horse-specific event as well...
The Daily Grind: What MMO content are you totally sick of doing?
The other day I was questing my way through the Shire in Lord of the Rings Online and chatting to my kinship about how...
Shroud of the Avatar plans on hosting official PvP events complete with unique new trophies
Shroud of the Avatar likes hosting its little events. Whether they're weekly fishing tournaments or official decoration contests (which will be coming back soon,...
Choose My Adventure: Taking the new Warbird for a spin in Star Trek Online
It was unanimous: We were meant to be Romulans and continue with the storyline that we were following in Star Trek Online. The voting...
