dev diary
Dungeons and Dragons Online talks about Isle of Dread’s pen-and-paper origins
While Dungeons and Dragons Online's newest expansion will be coming out in this advanced year of 2022, its origins are from time immemorial --...
Embers Adrift adds the first iteration of a monolith-powered fast travel system in latest beta build
Just last week the devs of Embers Adrift were wrestling with how to balance fast travel convenience with the game's design of getting players...
Lost Ark’s summer roadmap includes one new advanced class every two months
It's weird to consider that Lost Ark only launched less than four months ago, which feels like a lifetime somehow. Yet the team at...
Last Oasis outlines reworks to travel between zones and the addition of building-eating sandstorms
Woodpunk survival sandbox Las Oasis continues to remind people that it's not dead with yet another dev blog about some feature adjustments and additions...
Ship of Heroes recaps housing beta, plans a second test in July
With Ship of Heroes' player housing beta in the rear-view mirror, Heroic Games is recapping the experience in its latest dev blog - and...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Touring Guild Wars 2’s restored living world S1E2 Sky Pirates
Ready for another trip down Guild Wars 2's memory lane, or, perhaps, to experience more of the game's long-lost stories for the first time?...
New World deep-dives its 3v3 arenas in new dev blog
Amazon dropped a new dev blog for New World players last night - that is, New World PvP players, as it's all about the...
Post-apoc multiplayer RPG Eden Falling joins the art NFT frenzy
Evidently, the devs at Razor Edge Games believe that joining in on the NFT nonsense is going to help them finish the post-apocalyptic multiplayer...
Guild Wars 2 rolls out its first Elder Dragon legendary skin collection with today’s Sky Pirates launch
With the release of Sky Pirates in Guild Wars 2 today, endgame players who've unlocked Aurene legendaries can finally begin their quest for the...
LOTRO Legendarium: Exploring the bounds of Yondershire
As I write this, I'm coming down off of the buzz that was Lord of the Rings Online's 15th anniversary. All in all, I...
Dungeons and Dragons Online delays Isle of Dread to June 22, talks Tabaxi
If your fantasy team-up ever involved the unlikely pairing of cats and dinosaurs, then you're in luck, because Dungeons and Dragons Online is about...
New World explains the design and development of mutators
Amazon's banking big on Mutators -- special mob modifiers that change an NPC's behavior and resistances -- being a significant tool to continued player...
Sea of Thieves heralds its new live storytelling Mysteries feature arriving this week
Back in the days of yore, live GMs would tick off events in an MMO and things would happen as players moved forward in...
Neverwinter breaks down the mechanics and features of its upcoming Dragonslayer module
While Neverwinter fans know that the Dragonslayer module is bringing dragon lair delves and dragon hunting to all platforms on June 14th, those fans...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online has a real enthusiasm problem
Looking around the MMORPG community, you may not even be aware that Elder Scrolls Online has less than a month until its newest expansion,...
Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs says it has ‘close to’ 10 games currently in the works
Most people around these parts know Phoenix Labs as the studio behind the multiplayer monster slaying RPG Dauntless, but a new dev blog post...
Activision-Blizzard creeps out the internet with its ‘Diversity Space Tool’ as union-busting continues
Friday afternoon, Activision-Blizzard proudly trotted out a dev blog talking up the creation of a "Diversity Space Tool" that the company has apparently been...
Darkfall Rise of Agon explains upcoming changes to PvP alignments and stances
Since Darkfall: Rise of Agon is effectively trying to hit the reset button with a new Steam version launch, reason would stand that some...
Arrrrrrr you ready to get murdered by pirates in Elder Scrolls Online High Isles
We're just a bare few weeks away from the launch's of this year's defining Elder Scrolls Online chapter, High Isle, and ZeniMax Online Studios...
Diablo Immortal explains why its Realm of Damnation shouldn’t be your summer vacation destination
You would think that all of Diablo Immortal's hellish world would be a saturated in damnation, but apparently there are gradiant tiers of awfulness...
