dev diary

The middle of September saw the team vs. team FPS The Finals bring back Cashout mode for Season 3, albeit with a few adjustments...

The devs behind EVE Online's FPS module EVE Vanguard have never shied away from talking about the game's wider design philosophy, but now CCP...

It would be easy to assume that the server meshing technology being attempted by Star Citizen has just been spinning its wheels, but evidently...

Funcom has dropped a new dev blog on Conan Exiles' Age of Heroes release, and it's all about thralls - you know, your NPC...

The skyhook is one of the primary features of EVE Online's Equinox expansion, so naturally any adjustments made to it would very likely perk...

Hot on the heels of its Type-8 Update (or at least as hot on those heels as far as Frontier Developments' update cadence is...

If you had forgotten all about Ubisoft's newish shooter XDefiant, then you're not alone. It actually launched back in May and apparently did fine,...

Playable Worlds - technical designer Light Bates this time, not Raph Koster - has dished out another dev blog on Stars Reach's pre-alpha playtest....

Since the last time we checked in on Ultima Online's New Legacy beta testing, Broadsword has rolled out three more test weekends - and...

With today marking the official 10th anniversary of the first Destiny - and the future of Destiny 2 still feeling pretty wobbly thanks to...

New week starting on September 13th, Amazon is finally opening up the Aeternum beta for all comers, both PC and console. But if you've...

Nightingale fans have been waiting for Realms Rebuilt all summer - since even before we knew it was called Realms Rebuilt. But your wait...

Somebody go tell MOP's Sam that Guild Wars 2 is about to get a new PvP mode and he may actually like it! ArenaNet...

When writing up a post about last week's Stars Reach dev blog on character movement, I kept thinking one thing: This article needs a...

Tencent has dropped several new dev blogs for Tarisland over the last few days, including previews of Blight Dragon Elegy and its PvP tourney. Let's...

Anime MMO Grand Fantasia is relaunching on September 3rd with a classic edition called Origin that harkens back to the title's 2008 era: "New engine,...

"Out with the old and in with the new," declares survival sandbox Aloft, as studio Astrolabe's latest dev blog takes a look at the...

Gearing in Guild Wars 2 is simultaneously really nice and also very frustrating. It's nice because there is no uber tier of stats locked...

While most MMORPGs offer a variety of ways to play a character, Guild Wars 2 offers a huge variety of builds for each of...

This past May saw Valheim finally introduce its Ashlands biome and related gameplay additions after a year and a half of wait, but if...