game design

Last week we broke the story that EVE Online developer CCP Games is backing out of the virtual reality games market, closing its Altanta...

Crafting is really important in Final Fantasy XIV. That much can't be denied; the game places so much emphasis on the options available to...

Though EVE Online has a reputation as a cut-throat PvP sandbox where anything goes, the fuel that fires its conflict engine has always been...

Digital Extremes announced this morning that it's halting development on The Amazing Eternals. "After many discussions internally on the state of The Amazing Eternals, we...

You've probably heard by now that EVE Online is giving its free-to-play alpha clone characters a massive boost in power in December about a...

The man who pretty much wrote the book on many MMORPG systems shared another piece of keen insight about a pitfall in many competitive...

MMOs are complicated. This seems like a fairly non-controversial statement; there are more or less complicated games, but they all tend to be complex...

The latest development diary on the Armored Warfare site is trying to answer a remarkably unclear question: What are Armored Fighting Vehicles? It sounds...

Fans of The Repopulation have been waiting for the game's next patch for a little while, but it shouldn't be much longer now. A...

I do a lot of leveling in Final Fantasy XIV. This is, in part, because I am stupid; for several dumb reasons I have...

Guild Wars 2 launched its second expansion, Path of Fire, a few days ago, and as you might expect, a new expansion means some immediate...

It’s time for another survivalbox roundup! What's new in the world of eternal building, unbuilding, ganking, ganking buildings, and consuming adequate food and water...

One of the MMORPG industry's more prominent designers is leaving one of the MMORPG industry's more prominent games. On Friday, World of Warcraft Senior...

The EVE Online community is aflame this week after alliance leader gigX was permanently banned for making threats of real-life violence against another player...

The bad news for fans eagerly looking on with Seed's development is that the game isn't going to be opening up for external testing...

One of the first things I did in Shroud of the Avatar was get kind of lost. The last week's activities were largely similar....

Remember how former Turbine President Jeffrey Steefel was snapped up by Wizards of the Coast this past January to head up a digital games...

After all this time, I'm sure some of you forgot that my original E3 2017 interview with Final Fantasy XIV's Naoki Yoshida was supposed to...

I'm going to go out on a limb here and assume that everyone has at some point seen the xkcd called Isolation, but if not, there...

Usually when it comes to discussing world hemispheres of MMO game design, comments and observations are made about what western studios can learn from their...