dev diary
Elder Scrolls Online’s Razum-dar tours the high and low places of Summerset’s Alinor
When ZeniMax was hyping Elder Scrolls Online's Morrowind campaign, it utilized the snarky Dunmer assassin Naryu Virian as the narrator for guiding the player...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Summerset includes inquisitors, actors, and academics
When Elder Scrolls Online's Summerset chapter launches next month, it'll introduce a number of new groups and factions to the game. The Psijic Order...
Bless Online outlines key changes for its Steam release
When Bless Online launches on Steam early access next month, the version that western players experience won't be identical to the client that is...
Black Desert Online makes amends for ‘disorderly’ patch and plots out a better path forward
Black Desert Online players who were taken aback at some recent and rather sudden changes to the game have the full apology of Executive...
EVE Online gives love to planetary interaction, looks back at an all-female pirate gang
Creating and maintaining planetary colonies in EVE Online isn't exactly new, as the system dates back to 2010. But the developers have deemed it...
Crowfall improves its time-based skill leveling
Similar to how skill training works in EVE Online, Crowfall uses a time-based skill-up system that accrues points whether or not the player is...
Elder Scrolls Online’s new video summarizes the snobby elves of Summerset
Just as Morrowind was much more than elves, so is Summerset, but it's hard for the elves in this elven kingdom not to take...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Deep-diving Guild Wars 2’s A Bug in the System (Part 1)
Season 4 of Guild Wars 2Â Living World was off to a roaring start with Daybreak so I was expecting a solid follow-up in A...
Sea of Thieves corrects its course with six planned content patches for 2018
The widespread criticisms that Sea of Thieves is rather lacking in the content department has not fallen upon deaf ears at Rare. The studio...
Making my way through RIFT Prime’s progression server
It has been a month since that fateful day back in March when the MMO collectively lost its mind by rushing back to play...
Elder Scrolls Online is opening up PvP battlegrounds to everyone, whether you’ve bought Morrowind or not
With Summerset on the horizon, ZeniMax is shifting around just what goes into Elder Scrolls Online's base package, according to a dev post published...
The Daily Grind: Are blacklists, quizzes, and threats effective at reducing text toxicity in MMOs?
Toxicity in online gaming just keeps popping up - specifically as it pertains to chat and commenting.
MOP reader Tanek pointed us to a thread about...
SWTOR course corrects for patch 5.8a, overhauls the cash shop with direct-purchase items
Star Wars The Old Republic's 5.8a patch is live today with a bunch of tweaks to last week's far bigger update. In fact, many...
Bless says its excessive attention to environmental detail is in the service of immersion
With Bless Online due out on western shores this coming May, players who've never paid much attention to this Korean-born MMO may be wondering...
The Black Death has spawned an actual popularity contest
If you thought your days of losing popularity contests were over when you left school, think again! Indie survival sandbox The Black Death is...
Mavericks takes battle royale in the direction of an MMO
Normally there's a firm line of separation between battle royale-style multiplayer shooters and the full-fledged MMORPG, but Automaton's Mavericks may be about to change...
Ship of Heroes’ map is ‘larger than the starting maps in City of Heroes’
If you're a City of Heroes fan - or any kind of superhero fan - then you're gonna want to check out the brand-new...
Ship of Heroes turns a critical eye to February’s combat alpha
Last month, Ship of Heroes ran its first alpha combat test with backers, and it was a blast (literally). With enough time to process...
Saga of Lucimia will fight wiki infodumps with sparse patch notes
You know how when it's patch day in your favorite MMORPG and you're skimming the patch notes trying to figure out what exactly changed,...
Reign of Guilds moves toward alpha testing, talks about the game’s creation
With 15 developers now on staff and progression toward an alpha build, Reign of Guilds is slowly but surely taking shape as a hardcore...
