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PAX East 2017: Introducing Rend, a three-way survival sandbox from Frostkeep Studios
I don't really like survival games, typically -- I understand why a lot of people do like them, don't get me wrong, but I don't...
PAX East 2017: Citadel Studios on Shards Online’s switch to Legends of Aria
Big changes for MMOs frequently involve giving up almost as much as you gain. Not so with Legends of Aria, the not-actually-new title from...
PAX East 2017: Hands-on with the surprisingly fun Kritika Online
It's pretty much a rule of nature that at least one game is going to be far better and more fun to play than...
PAX East 2017: Jumping and climbing through Chronicles of Elyria’s pre-alpha
I admit to my weakness: Despite years and years of games using it again and again, I still enjoy the simple gameplay benefits of...
PAX East 2017: Final Fantasy XIV’s Q&A panel
At the time of this writing, there's just over a hundred days until Stormblood launches, expanding the world of Final Fantasy XIV for the...
PAX East 2017: Talking Conan Exiles on the show floor with Funcom
If you're a fan of Funcom and the games it makes, Conan Exiles probably has you breathing a bit easier than you have in a...
PAX East 2017: En Masse tells us all about TERA’s console port
Putting TERA on consoles seems like it's the most obvious combination of games and platforms ever conceived. Even more than Super Mario Bros. and...
Star Citizen unlocks Sabre for free flight this weekend, talks about Star Marine weapons and economic chain
In honor of PAX East this weekend, Star Citizen has unlocked its Sabre fighter for anyone to try. You'll just need to use the...
PAX East 2017: Naoki Yoshida on Final Fantasy XIV’s new jobs, old jobs, and future patches
It would be fair to say that Final Fantasy XIV fans treat Naoki Yoshida like a rock star, and he carries himself like one:...
PAX East 2017: Elite Dangerous and its ‘slightly cowboy free-for-all’
Frontier is hyping Elite Dangerous' expected Q2 PS4 release at this year's PAX East (colon still MIA, sorry), complete with confirmed HOTAS support. Frontier's...
PAX East 2017: Dauntless reveals new trailer, plans 2017 launch
Keeping an ear to the ground for Dauntless news? You should be: It's a co-op ARPG from Phoenix Labs, an indie studio made up...
PAX East 2017: TERA is coming to Xbox One and PS4 this year
Remember those rumors last year about a console port for TERA, buffeted by the surveys to selected TERA players about which consoles they play...
The Daily Grind: What MMO news are you hoping for from PAX East?
It's that time of year again when I go shipping up to Boston, because I live the closest and thus must continue to cover...
Elder Scrolls Legends plans PvE update, major expansion, and multiple platform rollouts
Elder Scrolls Legends, the online TCG spawned from the ever-popular Elder Scrolls franchise, has a massive infodump and launch today. For starters, the game formally...
No Man’s Sky reaches 1M players in its Foundation era
Love it or hate it, No Man's Sky was the buzz around the video game water cooler last year. And while the space exploration...
PAX East 2017: Chronicles of Elyria teases its PAX demo
Chronicles of Elyria's devs recently streamed a "speed-run" version of their planned PAX East demo for players. But we think that to really get...
Funcom shares its future plans for Conan Exiles from the GDC show floor
It's full speed ahead for Conan Exiles development this year, with no plans to slow down the game's pace over the next several months....
MMO giant Nexon has suffered a small round of layoffs
MMORPG.com reported this morning that Nexon has suffered a round of global layoffs, though small indeed.
"In order to provide enhanced live game support, Nexon...
Dean Hall’s space sandbox MMO Ion is dead
Way back in 2015, Dean Hall announced Ion, a ridiculously ambitious sci-fi space sandbox MMO built using Improbable's SpatialOS. And now it's dead.
Eurogamer went...
Blizzard is considering WoW competitive raiding e-sports again
If you were annoyed by the apparent subsumption of World of Warcraft art and lore panels by other games' e-sports at last year's BlizzCon,...
