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For Science: Crit-Rate is another survey-driven attempt to match gamer personalities to games
I have to admit I almost deleted the press release for this story without reading it, but my finger twitched, and let me tell...
The Daily Grind: Do you still craft in MMOs where crafting is pointless?
I could swap out the words "craft" and "crafting" in the question in today's Daily Grind topic and I think the same point would...
Lord of the Rings Online talks crafting vocations, recipes, and guild rep decay
Lord of the Rings Online crafters, listen up, all two of you! OK, three of you if I count myself! I kid, I kid,...
The Daily Grind: Should MMO servers use linked or independent auction halls?
I'm of two minds on this one.
I really like server-linked auction halls! I like when there's just one shared economy for everyone, so you...
Massively Overthinking: When is localization itself the kiss of death for an imported MMORPG?
Last week, when I was poking around the internet trying to understand why Amazon was still making excuses for de-sexualizing some Lost Ark characters...
Star Citizen previews upcoming underground locations, visual effects
The underground sprawls planned for Star Citizen, which readers will recall was one of the features highlighted at last year's CitizenCon, is back under...
Bless Global is back again, this time on mobile and Steam as a shambling blockchain horror
I'm sorry to report this morning that Bless is back and at it again.
Oh, that sounds cruel if you don't know the history, so...
Lost Ark protects its market from gold farmers, casts The Witchers’ Geralt into oblivion
After over a month in the game, Lost Ark is bidding farewell to its oddball pairing with The Witcher and sending poor Geralt into...
Albion Online’s Beyond the Veil Patch 4 is live with ZH/IN language support and combat balancing
Yesterday saw a major planned outage for Albion Online as studio Sandbox Interactive pulled the servers offline for patch 4 and preparations for the...
Tamriel Infinium: 18 activities to do at max level in Elder Scrolls Online
As they say, absence makes the heart grow fonder, and so it's been with the past six months between me and Elder Scrolls Online....
Global Chat: Where does WoW Classic go from here?
As Wrath Classic gets closer to its preordained expiration date, Priest with a Cause is asking a question that a lot of people are:...
Destiny 2’s day-long outage this week was the result of… a config error in a dev tool
Destiny 2 suffered a nasty outage earlier this week that took the game down more than 24 hours and even caused a rollback. Now,...
The Soapbox: Comparing the monetization of physical and digital card games
Earlier this week, we reported on the recent Blizzard survey about a possible Hearthstone sub. When I read the news, I almost choked on...
PvP MMO Gloria Victis will officially launch February 7 after six years of early access
Back in June of last year, Black Eye Games told Gloria Victis fans that the gritty siege warfare MMO was getting close to release with...
Massively Overthinking: The biggest 2022 MMO trainwrecks (almost) nobody noticed
As we wrap up our end-of-the-year and turn-of-the-calendar content until next December, there's one more recurring Massively Overthinking I like to do - and...
Gloria Victis is making its death penalty a lil bit more punishing
Gloria Victis isn't dawdling after the holidays: It's already pushed out its first big update of the year, the star of which is yet...
Square-Enix’s Yosuke Matsuda is still all-in on blockchain and NFTs even after 2022
You might think that after watching the steady erosion and collapse of blockchain and NFTs in general and in the gaming space after 2022,...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO offered the best crafting in 2022?
"Best crafting" has always been a hard pick for me as it's one of my core content magnets in an MMO, which tends to...
End-of-Year Eleven: The biggest MMO stories of 2022
I might be biased - by which I mean I am definitely biased - but 2022 was a year of big stories and big...
Warhammer 40K Darktide works on server stability, balance, and its crafting system
The world is less than a week away from the co-op multiplayer shooter Warhammer 40K: Darktide making its full release, but before then the...
