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Guild Wars 2 on the storytelling philosophy of next week’s No Quarter episode
ArenaNet's Novera King has emerged to pen Guild Wars 2's latest dev blog - no surprise since it's about storytelling and she's one of...
Ship of Heroes is enthusiastic about Unreal Engine 5 – but practical implementation is a long way off
Last week, Epic dropped a bunch of news and a headline-grabbing video showcasing Unreal 5. While a lot of the ensuing discussion centered on...
Everland is a sprite-based social MMO about logging in and hanging out with friends
If you're looking for a 16-bit-styled MMO that's less about being an adventuring murder hobo and more about just hanging out with others, then...
Path of Exile shares its most popular microtransaction items and looks at why they’re popular
Path of Exile has a cash shop. We don't really bring it up much because its offerings are almost completely cosmetic and inconsequential to...
BioWare Austin’s studio director confirms Anthem reboot will be more transparent and ‘a longer process’
It's been some time since we heard about the rumored and then confirmed reboot to Anthem -- since February, to be precise. As of...
New World deep-dives spriggan boss encounters and design in new dev blog
Here's the thing about spriggans: They're scary as hell and you should stay away from them. That's the only logical takeaway from New World's...
Riot addresses diversity, Valorant toxicity, and Vanguard anti-cheat (again)
It's been a year and a half since a Kotaku expose blew the lid off of flagrantly sexist and abusive behavior at Riot Games,...
Elite Dangerous outlines more changes to fleet carriers coming in next week’s test
Elite Dangerous' second round of Fleet Carriers beta is raring to go next week. You know this because you read MassivelyOP. But what does...
DayZ developer shuts down its Bratislava studio, affirms it won’t affect development
Bohemia Interactive, the development studio behind DayZ, has officially announced on Twitter that its Bratislava, Slovakia, studio is being shut down. The decision is...
Legends of Runeterra officially releases with a new set and talks about randomness in CCGs
Today is the day for Riot Games' League of Legends digital CCG to officially exit beta as Legends of Runeterra has officially released, bringing...
Elder Scrolls Online previews Greymoor’s world-spanning, largely non-combat antiquities system
With Greymoor now scheduled to launch May 26th, we're less than a month away from Elder Scrolls Online's next big thing, and probably the...
Population Zero hypes its impending early access launch and talks about PvP and PvE modes
Just in case you forgot that the multiplayer survival sandbox Population Zero is launching on Steam Early Access on May 5th, there's a sizzle-filled...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Reviewing ArenaNet’s Complete Art of Guild Wars 20th anniversary edition book
Talk long enough to Guild Wars fans about their favorite franchise, and chances are that sooner or later, they will start gushing about the...
Magic: Legends talks up the Realm system and how it helps player progression
So it looks like Magic: Legends will have something of a housing system, but this is less about cosmetic style and more about character...
Torchlight III showcases the potential of forts in a video, patches in party crash fixes and more skill updates
Torchlight III (which I lovingly refer to as Torchums or Torchic or Torcherry Pie) is continuing to tout the fact that players can build...
EVE Online recaps contentious Surgical Strike tweaks and quality-of-life changes
EVE Online has once more put together another Pulse video full of news updates and recent information. Just in case you're the sort who...
Dauntless teases next Escalation and battle pass, previews the Torgadoro monster
While we got an earlier, more broad-strokes look at what's coming next to Dauntless, the development roadmap update is often the location where players...
Riot Games defends Valorant’s Vanguard security driver, offers a $100k bounty to exploit it
Last week, Riot Games unveiled that their in-development competitive FPS Valorant runs an anti-cheat process in the background of player systems, which caused no...
Riot Games talks about the tech that keeps Valorant running smoothly and free of wallhack cheats
Riot Games is all in on making sure Valorant is one of the better-running and protected competitive FPS titles in the industry, and they're...
Book of Travels previews its paper- and card-inspired user interface
One of the selling points of Book of Travels that originally caught my eye way back before its successful Kickstarter last year was its...
