first impressions

While we are still in a holding pattern to know the launch date of Shadowlands, the good news is that you don't have to...

Yes, I know Genshin Impact isn't an MMORPG. It's not even an MMO; it's just regular old multiplayer. But when its first four days...

I forget when I first heard about Genshin Impact, but it was a while back, and it was something that I earmarked for the future...

I haven't read many of the Conan the Barbarian books, but I'm reasonably sure that whenever he was brought low in a fight, he...

Framed. Convicted. Exiled. Now, shipwrecked? What do the fates have in store for me next? Perhaps this Isle of Siptah will be my redress....

There's another big content update on the way to Dauntless on September 17th, and this one has a few new poisonous tricks up its...

You start by blowing up the world. Literally – a button is pressed and then the entire planet explodes. But that’s OK because you’re then...

It's expansion day for Conan Exiles as Isle of Siptah officially launches. You might be tempted to quibble over the use of the word...

It's been a while since I checked in on Black Desert Mobile for Desert Oasis. In fact, I haven't really played it since my initial...

One of the interesting things about this job is that I am pretty regularly presented with a new set of things to review and...

Let's call this side of Ishgard Restoration what it is, yes? This is Final Fantasy XIV giving people another form of PvP in competitive...

I have been an advocate for the Razer Naga basically ever since it was a product that you could purchase. Why? Because it turned...

Like a lot of people, I've been hotly anticipating Amazon's New World, one of the first truly big name new MMOs we've seen in...

This past weekend, I finally had a chance to actually try out Marvel's Avengers because the game was running its open beta. Certainly I'd already...

It's really hard to look at the general progress of New World and not get the sense of a game that's struggling to sort...

Autoplay, huh. What is it good for? Absolutely something! I'll say it again: There is value in autoplay. It's got such a bad reputation...

A little-known fact: I am one of the less than 10% of the world’s population who are left-handed. It’s not always convenient (those chairs...

PlayNYC, the newly digital games con in New York, ended yesterday, which means Valiance Online's brief open beta whereby anyone could play should have...

When I heard that Valiance Online was going to be running an open beta this week to coincide with the PlayNYC convention, I knew...

Last week, StarCraft II celebrated its tenth anniversary by launching the major 5.0 patch. With it came the new "prestige" system for co-op mode,...