game design

There are a lot of people who are quick to complain about issues with their personal favorite jobs in Final Fantasy XIV. No matter...

Practically every MMO on the market today has had to contend with botting and the range of issues that come with it, and EVE Online...

There's a familiar situation to players of tabletop games wherein a sidequest becomes more important than the main quest, and you wind up taking...

Throughout its almost 15-year lifetime, EVE Online has walked a fine line between developing new features and iterating on existing gameplay. Development has to...

Show of hands, readers: How many of you have had great fun dealing with corpse runs, trying to retrieve your gear from the spot...

Tale of Toast is an insidious title that sucks the unwary player in with colorful and innocent graphics... then kicks his or her butt...

Demon Hunters are a class I really want to enjoy in World of Warcraft, but I've never really succeeded at that goal. This is...

When I think back about the ways in which MMOs have improved over the 15-ish years I've been playing them, my thoughts invariably turn...

The maps in Crowfall are assembled in a combination of procedural and hand-crafted generation. Individual bits are hand-crafted, but the maps as a whole...

Even with massive downsizing and the end of its virtual reality ambitions, CCP hasn't quite thrown in the towel just yet. One of our tipsters...

We've reached the end of another year, and it's certainly been a busy one for EVE Online. This year saw heavy gameplay iteration, with...

I cannot quite believe that we're saying goodbye to 2017 and ringing in 2018 so quickly: It certainly doesn't feel as though an entire...

Don't agree that lockboxes, lootboxes, and gambleboxes were the biggest story of the year? We've collected so many news tidbits just on that over...

When Andie "CCP Seagull" Nordgren walked onto the stage at EVE Fanfest 2013 and delivered her long-term vision for the future of EVE Online,...

One of the quirks -- and frustrations -- of MMORPGs is that there never seems to be one game that truly has it all....

Last weekend, Brendan wrote a great column on how to stay safe from gankers in EVE Online, noting that the newbies are commonly given...

Inconvenience is not immersion. This strikes me as something rather ridiculous to type; to mildly paraphrase Dan Harmon, it seems like should be one of...

EVE Online is renowned for its cold, harsh universe and relatively few rules, and we've all heard the horror stories over the years of...

Most often, MMO Mechanics articles focus on the gameplay mechanics that both make the MMO genre unique and those that diversify MMOs from one...

When we first heard rumors about a Harry Potter version of Pokemon Go, I said I could barely imagine what the game might be like before...