dev diary
Funcom’s Joel Bylos explains why Dune Awakening is an actual, factual MMO
In an era where game studios are either backpedaling on calling their MMOs "MMOs,"Â it's refreshing to see one studio come outright and take ownership...
Guild Wars 2 previews Janthir Wilds’ land spears for Elementalists, Mesmers, and Revenants
Here we go: ArenaNet has finally dropped a dev blog on the final third of Guild Wars 2's classes destined for spear usage come...
Whatever happened to Phoenix Labs’ multiplayer creature hunting RPG Dauntless?
Most of the news that's come out of Dauntless developer Phoenix Labs has been pretty dire-sounding, particularly since the studio suffered two rounds of...
Ship of Heroes has revamped all of its NPC voices and added new ones
Heroic Games is continuing its efforts to bring modern features to indie superhero MMORPG Ship of Heroes, as its latest dev blog explains -...
The MOP Up: Temtem goes neon as it spins down development
Temtem's Patch 1.7 arrived with the start of its Neon Reverie season, the game's last as development starts to spin down: "To close it...
PlanetSide 2 addresses its recent Sunderer Rework blunder
If you're going to be stuck in status limbo, it helps to at least show signs that you're still alive and kicking. So good...
SGF 2024: Multiplayer RTS Stormgate debuts opening cinematic and Celestials faction
The beginning of this year saw hungry RTS fans toss all of the money at Stormgate, an upcoming multiplayer strategy game from developer Frost...
SGF 2024: Airship sandbox Echoes of Elysium releases new trailer about the fun of sky captaincy
Ready to take to the virtual skies in your own hand-crafted airship? After its initial reveal earlier this spring, Echoes of Elysium is making...
EVE Online shares Equinox patch notes, talks quality-of-life, confirms phased rollout of sovereignty features
The Equinox content update is just around the corner for EVE Online players, which means that CCP Games is kicking out a couple of...
The MOP Up: Destiny 2 players race to beat The Final Shape’s raid
Destiny 2 players are racing this weekend to see who will net the world's first takedown of The Final Shape's new raid, Salvation's Edge:...
Guild Wars 2 previews Janthir Wilds’ spears for Guardians, Rangers, and Necromancers
When ArenaNet told Guild Wars 2 fans that it would be expounding soon on how Janthir Wilds' new land spears will work for different...
Guild Wars 2’s Janthir Wilds land spears are actually part of a new mastery line
I know you all want to hear about Guild Wars 2's new Homestead housing system, revealed yesterday as part of the Janthir Wilds expansion...
Temtem Swarm debuts a new gameplay trailer and previews one of its boss monsters
Temtem: Swarm, the second spinoff game from the originally Kickstarted "MMO-lite" game Temtem, has come back as a major blip on our radar as...
Drakantos shows off Thomas the Bard Cat, a deadly new delve, and new pets and monsters
When is a Bard class not just a Bard class? When that Bard is a singing, ambulatory cat. Say hello to Thomas, the latest...
Seekers of Skyveil moves towards adding new characters, announces Steam playtest June 6 and 7
Seekers of Skyveil, the PvPvE extraction MOBA from Elodie Games, is once again on our radar, as the studio's latest development blog is talking...
Elder Scrolls Online discusses designing Gold Road’s West Weald zone and new Daedric prince
We're less than a week away from the Gold Road chapter's arrival to PC players of Elder Scrolls Online, which means that ZeniMax Online...
Guild Wars 2 teases land spears, builds on Secrets of the Obscure’s lessons for next expansion
But Bree, you say, Guild Wars 2 already has spears. And you're right! Spears as an underwater weapon have been in the game since...
Whatever happened to pixel art MMORPG Drakantos?
It's been a few minutes since we checked in on the development of Drakantos, a free-to-play pixel art MMORPG we first covered last fall....
Pantheon Rise of the Fallen provides an in-progress look at the upcoming Summoner class
Unless you're the sort of person who follows the goings-on of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen creative director Chris "Joppa" Perkins or you didn't...
Nightingale recaps its new character creation additions – including its starter loadouts and ‘extravagant’ digs
If you know one thing about Nightingale's patch week, it's that it finally introduced an offline mode after much player clamor. But that wasn't...
