exploits
The MOP Up: New World’s deadly laser turkey
"What started as an office joke about a giant turkey with laser eyes turned into an actual world boss when one of our AI...
Throne & Liberty says over 3900 players took part in its biggest castle siege to date
With the first large-scale castle siege for Throne and Liberty now in the books for the western audience, Amazon Games is taking a moment...
Ashes of Creation wipes away assets and eliminates over 100 characters over duping incident
One has to wonder exactly what sort of benefit someone would get from trying to use dupes to get ahead in a game that's...
Elite Dangerous makes changes to powerplay earnings and highlights the top five powers in-game
Many of Elite: Dangerous' players have been digging in to the newly updated powerplay mechancs, and now that a few weeks have passed by,...
Sea of Thieves finally reintroduces disguises, traps, and ledge hanging to the sneaky Season 14
The latest season for Sea of Thieves has been a well-documented tire fire, with the game's sneaky feature set having to be reeled back...
Sea of Thieves is continuing to bring back stealth features – incrementally – in Season 14
We've reported previously how Sea of Thieves' Season 14 shipped with enough bugs that most of its stealthy gameplay features had to be temporarily...
Lost Ark’s Ignite chest exploiter fix didn’t quite go to plan, so it’s extending some of the bans
The temporary banwave in Amazon's Lost Ark has become more of a lingering ban tsunami as the studio is actually extending bans for players...
Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends is cracking down on shady game mods
Heads-up, folks who mod in ancient emulators: The Star Wars Galaxies rogue server SWG Legends is cracking down on mods, though hopefully not the...
Design Mockument: Exploring alternatives to the typical MMO trinity
Here's a fun thing for you: I swear that way, way back before the game launched, there were documents from the Guild Wars 2...
Sea of Thieves outlines plans to temporarily remove features and address bugs plaguing Season 14
The season of Making Mischief in Sea of Thieves has instead resulted in making headaches for Rare Ltd. and making players grumpy, as the...
MMO Hype Train: Is Corepunk really ready for prime time?
Whenever I'm looking at a new MMORPG, there are two important hurdles it must cross to be of interest to me. The first is...
Lost Ark cracks down on Ignite reward chest exploiters, launches Aegir raid
Lost Ark fans have been up in arms the past week over a nasty exploit with the brand-new Ignite reward chests - and now,...
Elder Scrolls Online’s devs explain how they balance over 650 item sets
While we all like to see ourselves as excellent armchair video game designers, our eyes might go crossed trying to imagine the complexity of...
Corepunk delays beta wipe as combat overhaul is unfinished, talks up the PvP/PvE mode
Corepunk is back with another update aimed at the now-limited group of people who paid to access to ongoing beta while preorders were still...
One Shots: Waiting for a friend in Star Citizen
You've bought your $14,000 starship, spent countless days rearranging everything just so, and managed to stay on top of the torrent of word salad...
EVE Online blockchain spinoff Project Awakening rebrands as EVE Frontier ahead of ‘founder access’
You had to figure that CCP Games wasn't going to keep calling Project Awakening that forever, right? Indeed it was not, and as of...
Once Human addresses content, performance, and the unresolved currency bug
There are a lot of questions likely floating around Once Human, and while some player matters are perhaps not getting the resolution gamers would...
Last Epoch is getting a ‘full cycle refresh’ with September’s Imperial Uprising event
Looking for a helpful onramp into Last Epoch but are feeling a little behind right now? The playing field should be leveled next month...
Temtem’s final content update is live with selectable season passes and improved quality-of-life
Today is the day when Temtem is considered a fully built game by developer Crema, even as the studio hit this milestone with some...
Massively Overthinking: The MMOs without player housing in 2024
Last week, Guild Wars 2 became the latest western MMORPG to finally add proper housing, with pages lifted straight out of Wildstar and RIFT....
