crafting
Path of Exile’s take on Farmville blooms on June 19 with the Harvest League
After seemingly countless quarterly updates and leagues, you might think Grinding Gear Games would eventually run out of ideas for Path of Exile. Not...
Dual Universe outlines alpha 3.1’s updates to visuals, warp drives, resurrection nodes, and tutorials
What's in the works for the next Dual Universe alpha build? A fair number of things according to the latest Inside Novaquark podcast. The...
Fight or Kite: Deep-diving Crowfall’s Dregs RvR gameplay
A couple weeks ago I was preoccupied with leveling up my Frostweaver in Crowfall and completely missed out on the Dregs campaign that was...
Frozen Flame is a multiplayer survival RPG in a world constantly teetering towards a cataclysm
Surviving in a magical world with spells against monsters? No, it's not Citadel: Forged with Fire, it's Frozen Flame, an in-development multiplayer survival RPG...
Wisdom of Nym: So, if there is a Final Fantasy XVI…
It's been about a year since I wrote about Naoki Yoshida's mystery project, which still has not actually been announced in any way and...
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...
Co-op roguelike Minecraft Dungeons is live today on PC, Xbox One, PS4, and the Switch
Don't tell my kids, but I'm getting them Minecraft Dungeons this week. I mean, really I'm getting myself Minecraft Dungeons this week, but they're...
Dungeons & Dragons Online looks ahead to its next hardcore season, Barbarian class, and new Warlock trees
In the latest episode of DDOCast, the Dungeons and Dragons Online team showed up to talk about a whole host of content, features, and...
MMO Burnout: We Happy Few is a single-player virtual world
After having it on my radar for many years, I've finally gotten around to playing indie stealth/survival game We Happy Few. It's a good...
The Daily Grind: How do you feel about offline play in MMORPGs?
I spend a... lot of time in Star Wars Galaxies on the SWG Legends rogue server. I poke fun at myself for this, but...
Massively Overthinking: The more things change in MMOs, the more they stay the same
A while back, in the wake of our Desert Oasis column on Black Desert's guild system, Carlo and I were discussing guild wars -...
Legends of Aria’s Point Release 10 is bringing frosty environments, new items, and new systems
Things are going to get chilly for Legends of Aria players. Point Release 10 is opening up the Frozen Tundra region, and with it...
Mortal Online 2 writes an FAQ and lays out an alpha development roadmap
How are things going in the open sandbox alpha world of Mortal Online 2? It's hard to really say, since we're not entrenched in...
Terraria has reached the Journey’s End now
Farewell, Terraria, your journey is over. Although to some extent, the journey never changed. The game's final major update launched on Saturday, but Journey's...
Desert Oasis: Exploring Black Desert’s guild system, from contracts to drama
Guilds: one of the quintessential social features of an MMO. Along with grinding, crafting, and partying up, guilds are just one of those things...
Wisdom of Nym: What awaits in Final Fantasy XIV’s relic battleground?
We don't know just how long it's going to be before we're all chilling out in the battlefield for Final Fantasy XIV's next relic weapon...
Shroud of the Avatar ramps up XP gains for regular and meticulous gathering
The reward for gathering something in an MMORPG isn't the sensation of a job well done, it's usually getting XP to get to the...
Animal Crossing: Cherry blossoms, the Detroit Lions, and a politician’s island visit travelogue
What do cherry blossoms, the Detroit Lions NFL team, and NY representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have in common? Animal Crossing: New Horizons, if you can...
First impressions of Fallout 76 Wastelanders from a true newbie to the game
So I did something completely unexpected: I bought Fallout 76. It wasn't my idea. A few people in my guild had been talking about...
Population Zero is back on track with May roadmap, promising optimization, balancing, and character visual tweaks
Yesterday, we covered the shaky launch of Population Zero and the apologies of the devs at Enplex Games, who admitted there were technical problems...
