design

You guys may not have consciously noticed it, but we've been working harder and harder on our science-related articles in the past couple of...

Launching something new always involves a certain amount of pulling the trigger and then apprehensively waiting. What's going to go wrong? Are the servers...

I haven't exactly made a secret of the fact that I'm on a bit of a low pulse for Final Fantasy XIV at the...

There are only two kinds of people who would really try to have "the Swift" after their name: really quick people and really slow...

There's a reason why MOBAs don't simply have players piloting featureless gray blobs with names like "Shooty Man" and "Punchy Monster" on their chests....

Sometimes, the best way to find out if something has an audience is just to put out what you have and see if people...

We live in an era when most designers have noticed that we like to control what our characters look like as well as how...

I've still been having a blast in Legion over the past few weeks. Nithogg might have been unkind to me by offering me no...

Stats are a big deal in MMOs. Those little numbers that we try to make go higher are a big part of what makes...

Each of Crowfall's archetypes tends to be associated with a specific gender because the game's archetypes are a bit more comprehensive than simply classes....

When last we left off, the world was screwed. World of Warcraft: Legion doesn't tell you that you're facing a huge threat, it just...

Do you lie awake at night and think that what would really compete with Overwatch is a team-based shooter based on Transformers? Apparently, the...

One of the big elements of Camelot Unchained's design philosophy is the difference between its three factions. It wouldn't make a lot of sense...

Montgomery Scott casts a long shadow over pop culture in general; if you've ever played a game in which the engineer spoke with a...

If you feel like Heroes of the Storm is lacking in powerful spellcasters, your reasoning isn't particularly solid, but you can take heart in...

Master x Master might very well be the MOBA that I learn to love in spite of any and all preconceptions. I am not, categorically,...

It might seem as if Shroud of the Avatar has been in early access for a very long time, probably because it has. Technically, it's...

The development history of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen could be generously described as "checkered." The title went through several forms of failed crowdfunding...

Here's the stunning secret about Final Fantasy XI's interface: It gets passed off as being horrible because it was designed for a console, but...

When World of Warcraft rolls away from the inexplicable inclusion of alternate Draenor for good, it will also mean bidding farewell to the elements...