game mechanics

After a few days of teases, another legend has been formally revealed for Guild Wars 2's upcoming Revenant profession, and it's all about healing. Yes,...

If you've been paying attention the last few weeks, you've doubtlessly heard a fair bit about the new skills that the various classes and...

Players excited for the Sovereignty overhaul coming to EVE Online need only wait a couple of days more before it rolls onto the live...

Odds are good that you've had experience with H1Z1's Battle Royale gameplay by now if you've played the game for any length of time....

The next major update for Elite: Dangerous is going to really shake up how the game is played. The Powerplay update previewed a month...

Are you ready to enter the Heart of Thorns? Because Guild Wars 2 is opening the testing doors today, allowing players to step in...

There's a phrase that gets passed around my house frequently these days, and the phrase is "expansion mode." I have two characters locked into...

If there's another group of players in Pathfinder Online and you hate their stupid faces, the most recent patch to the game's Early Enrollment...

If you had been under the impression that World of Warcraft's personal loot was already equivalent in reward amounts to group loot, well... maybe...

It's crazy to realize that Final Fantasy XIV has added more dungeons via patches in a year and a half than World of Warcraft has...

I spent a ridiculous amount of time playing Blade & Soul just moving around. Most of the time in a given game, I'm moving around because...

What does skill-based combat mean to you? We can't tell you that, but we can tell you what it means to the makers of...

It's been a little while, hasn't it, friends? In the time since I last penned WoW Factor (which missed an installment purely due to...

When lead designer Scott Shicoff took point on Neverwinter, his first dispatch to the community was a statement that he and the rest of...

The newest ships in Star Trek Online are all based around making players feel like that piloting specialization was a good expenditure of time...

Are you stuck on the last part of Final Fantasy XIV's main scenario quest? The last trial introduced, Steps of Faith, is a pretty...

This past week, I did what I needed to do before Final Fantasy XIV's expansion Heavensward launches: I finished the main scenario questline on...

You can't play a Dragonhunter Guardian in Guild Wars 2 right now no matter how much you might want to be wielding a bow...

Virtually every MMO contains dangerous places that are filled with other players or NPCs that will attack characters on site, and many also feature...

Another big patch is coming to Trove in the near future, and it's bringing along a new class. The class feels... familiar, somehow. We...