dev diary
SWTOR celebrates 11 years, teases cadence changes, and tests 64-bit client
BioWare's Keith Kanneg posted a dev blog for Star Wars The Old Republic players last night to celebrate the game's 11th birthday. He recaps...
Camelot Unchained’s December dev blog touts $15M investment as a ‘level up’ for City State Entertainment
Last month's $15M investment round is high on the mind of Camelot Unchained's Mark Jacobs, as he opens up the game's December development report...
Ethyrial Echoes of Yore announces the sale of founder’s packs through a ‘founder crowdfunding program’
What do you call a sale of founder's packs without actually using those words? You call it the "founder crowdfunding program" if you're old-school...
Ship of Heroes shows off the 114 preset faces of its character creator
Many MMOs struggle with aesthetic faces for player characters, but in-development superhero MMO Ship of Heroes is tackling the problem head on - pun...
ROSE Online makes its early access return today after 17 years of absence
It would be easy to have forgotten about ROSE Online, a Korean MMO from Gravity Interactive, though it has had a pretty bumpy history....
The Daily Grind: Which MMO studio had the best dev communication in 2022?
Last year, ArenaNet took my nod for best developer communication. It's been solid all year. Really, any MMO putting out regular blog posts and...
Victorian gaslamp multiplayer PvE sandbox Nightingale teases travel in new Game Awards trailer
We've had an eye on Inflexion Games' multiplayer survival sandbox Nightingale since its debut last year - in fact, it was meant to hit...
Lost Ark teases December’s Brelshaza Legion Raid, addresses ongoing disconnect issues
We've got one more day of November, but Lost Ark is already looking ahead to its December update: Amazon's posted a dev blog telling...
RuneScape prepares for the holiday season, Old School RuneScape content creators battle for billions of gold
The holiday season looms large in RuneScape as the newest weekly update post happily points at its Christmas goodies. Specifically, players should be seeing...
Overwatch 2 showcases Ramattra in a gameplay video and developer blog
There's a new tank rumbling into Overwatch 2 - the omnic leader of Null Sector known as Ramattra - and he's bringing a whole...
EVE Online details new and upcoming improvements to its Photon UI
EVE Online continues to make a whole bunch of noise about its spiffing new Photon UI, with another new dev blog that details changes...
Is Elder Scrolls Online’s next stop in Telvanni-held mainland Morrowind?
The Dark Heart of Skyrim Celebration being held in Elder Scrolls Online has likely been about getting those sweet rewards for players, but one...
Lost Ark compensates players for pheon exploit debacle, patches in Feast with Friends
Lost Ark's narrative today is a good news/bad news kind of story. Let's start with the bad news first: As we noted on Monday,...
Book of Travels promises changes to quests, survival, combat, and travel in ‘the looming future’
The developers of tiny multiplayer online title Book of Travels are once more promising to make a variety of sweeping changes in another dev...
Battlefield 2042 plans limited-time free-to-play periods in December and talks up its next two seasons
Earlier this week we had worried aloud that Battlefield 2042 might not make it to a third season owing to the fact that fans...
NetEase’s ‘adventure shooter MMORPG’ Ashfall offers a look at some puzzles players can solve
Back in September, we cast a light on Ashfall, a self-described "adventure shooter MMORPG" from developer Legendary Star Studios and publisher NetEase that's bringing...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Wrapping up Guild Wars 2’s S1 reboot with episode 5, The Battle for Lion’s Arch
It's finally here! The most memorable, most important part of Guild Wars 2's Living World Season 1 story. The moment we've all been waiting...
PlanetSide 2 celebrates 10th anniversary with double XP and concurrency record attempt
Rogue Planet Games is marking 10 years of PlanetSide 2 in a couple of ways. There's the upcoming November update, an attempt to break...
Star Stable calls Halloween’s soul shards a way to give players the power of choice, but fans largely disagree
Last month, the online horse game Star Stable was among the many MMOs that held a Halloween event that added a bunch of spooky...
Massively on the Go: Pokemon Go is just not keeping its community promises
For those who haven't been keeping score, I have. Niantic has now missed two Pokemon Go dev diary months: one in August, which was the...
