game design

It is the 20th anniversary of Final Fantasy XI this week. Not the 20th anniversary of the game being in the US, and thus...

Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. China has ended its latest gaming-approval freeze after nine months of regulators locking out...

Continuing our GDC 2022 coverage of Bungie Principal Technical Game Designer Alan Blaine's talk on building challenges and reusable content in Destiny 2, we're going...

So Guild Wars 2 had some problems with the process to unlock its siege turtle mount. As launched, it required players to take part in...

Last time in Massively Overthinking, our writers and readers sure did have a lot of good ideas to fix New World that Amazon won't...

While we're always fascinated by the high-level revelations of game design given by developers, all of those ideas would stay just that -- ideas...

Amazon's New World is one of the biggest, most ambitious, and most beautiful MMORPGs the industry has seen in years, and yet since its...

Few people are without opinions on minigames in MMOs. Some love 'em, some hate 'em, and some just ignore 'em. Some even despise that...

If the biggest thing that kept you away from Elyon was the lack of an ability to arrow things in the face, the game's most...

Justin, Colin, and Bree discuss Elder Scrolls Online, Lost Ark, ArcheAge, Elyon, EVE Online, and Guild Wars 2, with adventures in LOTRO, ESO, and GW2, plus mailbag topics on choice in MMOs and resurrecting Landmark.

If you're new to our genre, first of all welcome, and second of all you should be familiar with Dr. Richard A. Bartle, a...

It's well past time for me to get something off my chest. MMOs are dumb. MMOs are full of weird stuff. This genre is weird...

One of my favorite traditions every year is to put a spotlight back on some of the wild things MMORPG developers said every year....

The devs at Visionary Realms feel pretty strongly about where Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen fits in to the whole MMORPG universe, as evidenced...

A few weeks ago, the World of Warcraft playerbase was grumbly over a tweet from the new Blizzard co-president that encouraged boosting, which is...

The universe has been hungry the past couple of years, and now it's threatening another member of the extended MMORPG developer community. This morning,...

In case you hadn't noticed, Playable Worlds' Raph Koster is basically handing out a free 101 course in how video games work in his...

Nonameplease recently posed us an interesting topic, inspired by a thread on the Star Trek Online subreddit. "It seems most people don't think the...

If Raph Koster's metaverse talk has you more confused than before, then don't worry; his new more technical blog is going to scramble your...

It's Wednesday, which means another weekly deluge of Black Desert news. First, over on the PC servers, where the game is celebrating 2000 days online...