dev diary
Ship of Heroes’ latest dev blog talks up its attempts to make combat smoother and more enjoyable
If you peeked in on Ship of Heroes' Steam Next Fest demo as we did, you probably noticed that combat was... well, bad, let's...
Tarisland addresses genderlocking and pay-to-win, boosts raiding over crafting
Following Tarisland's second closed beta, Tencent has resurfaced with another dev blog exploring player feedback - and what the company aims to do about...
V Rising plans end of early access in 2024 with a new zone, endgame events, and gameplay tweaks
V Rising is once more electing to talk about but not talk about future updates as its latest dev blog pirouettes through teases and...
EVE Online adds new ice refinery heists and AIR daily goals, calls its first Vanguard test ‘a massive success’
Havoc continues to reign and expand in EVE Online, as the spaceship gankbox has made a couple of additions related to the recent update...
Daybreak announces Year of Darkpaw to celebrate EverQuest and EverQuest II in 2024
With both of its EverQuest franchise expansions for 2023 out the door, Daybreak's Darkpaw Games is already queueing up the teases for EverQuest 1's...
Here’s how multiplayer will work for Nightingale’s early access launch next year
It's almost as if Inflexion made its latest dev blog for us, as in for the MMO and multiplayer-loving segment of gaming: Nightingale has...
Blade & Soul shares early gameplay videos and communication plans for Neo Classic servers
We're still not entirely sure just what Blade & Soul is doing with its upcoming Neo Classic servers, but it looks as if NCsoft...
New World announces holiday event kickoff December 12, talks performance and bugs in latest video
Christmas returns to New World next week - or rather I should say, the Winter Convergence Festival: "Holiday cheer spreads across Aeternum once more...
Diablo Immortal’s Splintered Souls update promises new maps, quests, and familiars
Oh hey, remember Diablo Immortal? Blizzard definitely hasn't forgotten all about its last extant project with NetEase, and in fact, its next big patch...
Eternal Tombs demos low-level melee and magic combat ahead of next test
Eternal Tombs - the MMO originally known as War of Dragnorox - has another dev blog out this week, this time demoing the cutest...
Bossa Games’ post-Worlds Adrift co-op game, Lost Skies, heads into pre-alpha
We've had an eye on Bossa Games - again - ever since May of this year, when the company best known to MMORPG players...
New World completes server merges, teases PUG finder, and addresses roadmap delays
New World's planned server merge went off yesterday without much of a hitch. Readers will recall that Amazon originally announced the merge of nine...
Evercore Heroes talks upcoming remaster, says its ‘fighting for Vela’s survival with this next bet’
It's been an exceedingly rough year for Evercore Heroes, the fusion of MMO, MOBA, and bad luck. The project went into closed beta this...
Fractured Online sold 5000 copies, devs post short-term update roadmap and more stats
Most of the time we're left to educated guesses, supposition, or cutting through the Gordian knot of investor report double-speak when it comes to...
New World’s PTR is testing crafting features and the Legacy of Crassus event
Do you miss whaling away on big angry cyclopes in New World? Then you probably will want to be in the game's PTR, as...
Mortal Online 2 calls latest UE5 test ‘a huge success’ and readies another PTR this week
Last week the FFA PvP sandbox Mortal Online 2 ran its third Unreal Engine 5 upgrade test, with a focus on debugging its server...
Overwatch 2 digests its PvP-focused BlizzCon reveals, promises more ‘surprise and delight’ events for all
Overwatch 2 director Aaron Keller is using his usual Director's Take blog post to take a breath and process the reveals made by the...
Nightingale offers up a cloud monster, sleepy wolves, and a functioning second hand in November report
What do a giant monster made of venomous clouds, wolves taking a nap, and a newly functional off-hand have in common? They're all part...
Funcom is plotting a Dune Awakening early closed beta test – here’s how to sign up
With Funcom dropping more dev blogs about its Dune Awakening MMO, you had to figure that it was building to something, and in fact,...
New World delivers a sneak peek at Season 4’s Eternal Frost story and characters
Hopefully you New World fans didn't overlook the fact that Season 4: Eternal Frost is coming in less than a month -- and is,...
