farming
Black Desert PC makes PvE-focused class tweaks, applies conquest war QoL, and fights sweets-stealing bears
It's quite a week in the PC version of Black Desert, as the game's latest update has made another wide assortment of changes to...
MMORPG sandbox BitCraft sets alpha for early 2024, picks up Austin Wintory and Rachel Hardy for the score
Earlier this week in our coverage of BitCraft's crafting and economy deep-dive, we pointed out that studio Clockwork Labs has been teasing something big...
Vague Patch Notes: The games industry arrogance cycle, in MMOs and elsewhere
Unity has fallen. Oh, sure, the company has rolled back the worst parts of its incredibly boneheaded "give us money for your successful game"...
MMORPG sandbox BitCraft details the importance of core-skills and interdependence in its crafting systems
Clockwork Labs has been teasing... something for BitCraft over the course of September, noting just a week or two ago that it's been a...
Astroneer’s fall event has players farming up sturdysquash in spaaaaace
It's three great tastes that taste great together: It's space sandboxes, it's farming, and its a Falloween event. Yep, Astroneer's traditional fall event is...
Massively Overthinking: Massively Overwhelming content in MMORPGs
This past weekend, I picked up my first premium house in Lord of the Rings Online after much hemming and hawing. I didn't expect...
Albion Online details Wild Blood’s new player island biomes – and multiple farms per toon
Of all the content going into Albion Online's Wild Blood patch next month, the islands and farming rework has been the bit that caught...
Albion Online opens up a final window to move your player island before Wild Blood arrives
With its beefy Wild Blood update on deck to arrive on October 16th, Albion Online's game is about to shake things up in many...
Albion Online’s Wild Blood update eyes an October 16 release
With Halloween and a full moon on the horizon, Albion Online is set to unleash its inner beast when its Wild Blood update arrives...
Hands-on: Cozy game Fae Farm might strike familiar gameplay beats, but its setting is the sauce
I appreciate how a lot of my opinion of Fae Farm is going to come off reductive or as I'm damning it with faint...
Why I Play: Palia is cozy and fun, but why is it multiplayer – and where is it going?
On paper, Palia seems like it wouldn’t interest me. It is a lighthearted jaunt through a bright, cartoonish environment that involves building relationships with...
Cozy solarpunk survivalbox Loftia funded on Kickstarter with over $1.2M US
Loftia closed out its Kickstarter last night with a whopping $1.27M US pledged from over 16,000 backers. In its thank-you letter to supporters, studio...
Fae Farm drums up launch hype with a PAX West appearance, community event, and launch trailer
Cozy life sim gaming fans are now less than two weeks away from the full release of Fae Farm, which naturally means that developer...
Profane’s August roadmap update heralds a focus on polishing existing features
Sure, adding new stuff to a developing game like Profane isn't necessarily a bad thing, but sometimes you need to circle back to the...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s Secrets of the Obscure
It has been a weird time to be a Guild Wars 2 fan, with a lot of ups and downs lately. End of Dragons...
The Daily Grind: Which deeply held MMO belief have you totally changed your mind about?
Let's normalize changing our minds in the face of better evidence and data, eh?
I grew up in MMOs when it was fine and sometimes...
Massively Overthinking: Rescuing the worst economies in the MMO genre
As a hardcore economy player in most of the MMOs I play, I pay a whole lot of attention to the health of the...
Fae Farm confirms cross-platform play will be available in its September 8 launch
Those who have been following the cozy life sim multiplayer title Fae Farm are likely familiar that the game will be landing on Nintendo...
First Impressions: Palia is missing the depth MMO life-skillers are hoping for
"Life-sims" are another of those game genres that I like in theory, but less so in practice. Most have graphical styles I find off-putting,...
Massively on the Go: Orna’s pet-battler is fluffy – but not cheap
Usually here on Massively on the Go, we have a lot of good things to say about Orna: The GPS RPG and its dev...
