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Coreborn Nations of the Ultracore offers up its open world co-op survival sandbox to alpha testing March 2
Another survival sandbox is making its way into our radar (and likely part of our list of beta titles). This time we're casting our...
Tencent’s survival shooter Undawn opens closed beta signups for April test round
Almost two years ago, Tencent's Lightspeed & Quantum announced Undawn, a UE4 post-apoc multiplayer open-world survival game, which promised everything from PvE and PvP...
Pantheon will test updates to crafting and gathering in this weekend’s pre-alpha
It may not be exciting, but Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen has apparently made gobs of progress on infrastructure that is largely invisible to...
Perfect Ten: 10 things I really dislike about Final Fantasy XIV
Sometimes, when I have a series of columns planned, I start off by saying, "Hey, here's a series of columns I plan." And sometimes...
Whatever happened to Creativerse? For starters, it went fully buy-to-play
It's been a terribly long time since we checked in on Creativerse, a cutesy multiplayer voxelbox that launched out of early access way back...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s unseen character is (not) the Warrior of Light
In Final Fantasy XIV lore, the Convocation's overall lineup has changed a little bit as we've learned more. At first it was just a...
LOTRO Legendarium: Why flying would have ruined LOTRO’s Middle-earth
Despite the title up there, this column isn't really about flying. I'm just getting that out of the way right here. I actually have...
SWG Legends just patched in a bunch of long-running player requests
Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends has had a wild couple of weeks, first with downtime, then with new server hardware, and then...
Destiny 2 runs down Lightfall’s new ritual weapon, character boosts, interactive trailer, and 24-hour maintenance
Lightfall looms ever closer to the horizon of Destiny 2, which naturally means that the game's weekly newsletter is once more all about the...
Albion Online’s Beyond the Veil Patch 4 is live with ZH/IN language support and combat balancing
Yesterday saw a major planned outage for Albion Online as studio Sandbox Interactive pulled the servers offline for patch 4 and preparations for the...
Destiny 2 plots adjustments to seasons, challenge, and activities to fight against perceived predictability
According to game director Joe Blackburn, Destiny 2 updates have become a bit too consistent, leading to the sense that updates are predictable and...
Corepunk posts an hour of gameplay footage that focuses on gathering and crafting professions
This past December, we heard fresh word out of Corepunk that was generally a combination of good news and bad news: The game's beta...
Not So Massively: Voidtrain’s Next Fest demo leaves a terrible first impression
It's hard to find a survival game with an original premise these days. Dinosaurs? Done. Alien worlds? Done. Zombies? Done to (un)death. But how...
Tamriel Infinium: 18 activities to do at max level in Elder Scrolls Online
As they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder, and so it's been with the past six months between me and Elder Scrolls Online....
Global Chat: Where does WoW Classic go from here?
As Wrath Classic gets closer to its preordained expiration date, Priest with a Cause is asking a question that a lot of people are:...
EverQuest II kicks off its Valentine’s Day celebration with new achievements and items
The season of love has once more swept across the entirety of EverQuest II as this week sees the return of Erollisi Day to...
Massively Overthinking: That moment when you realize an MMO is truly something special
MOP commenter Bruno tweeted something the other that that I thought would make a fun topic. Here's what he said, printed with permission:
"Wanna know...
Vague Patch Notes: Diversions are what makes the MMO
I am going to put forth a theory today in the Vague Patch Notes column. It is potentially an odd theory, and as sometimes...
Gloria Victis’ first day of full launch sees new servers, crafting quest overhauls, and connection problems
Yes, it's another one of those "water is wet" kind of news stories for MMORPG veterans, but since Gloria Victis made its full launch...
Sandbox MMORPG Dragon and Home adds an NA server and begins mobile beta testing for Android
When last we peeked in on Dragon and Home, it was just entering its Steam launch, promising players on the platform a sandbox world...