game mechanics

To my great disappointment and chagrin, Blizzard turned out to not catch the same winds (of wisdom) that influenced the extending of experience boosts...

There are two sides to the most recent Albion Online patch, and they're both about improving the game's environment. One side is fairly simple, because...

If there's one thing that Fallout 76 does remarkably well, it's making people angry about the way the game is monetized, all the way back...

Are you one of the many, many people who doesn't really care much about proving your mettle in competitive matches of Warcraft III: Reforged...

Do you like to have a fine collection of valuable automobiles in The Crew 2? The game's next major updates is all about hobbies, hence...

Bel is very angry in Neverwinter. How angry? Well... that's kind of the problem. It turns out that the whole thing has had some cascading...

Farewell, Terraria, your journey is over. Although to some extent, the journey never changed. The game's final major update launched on Saturday, but Journey's...

I quite like Final Fantasy XIV's healers. I really enjoy both Scholar and White Mage, and considering that this expansion is one in which I'd...

It's really silly to have alts in Final Fantasy XI or Final Fantasy XIV. I do. I actually have several. The one saving grace I have...

We've already talked about how Final Fantasy XI had had to delay some anniversary fun, but that's not the same as removing all of the...

There's nothing worse than getting a cool Legendary in Torchlight 3 that you cannot use because it's a lower-level item and thus not terribly worthwhile....

It's time to get used to going up into the air in Eye of the Storm over in World of Warcraft; the most recent...

Gosh, if the NPCs in The Division 2 were players... well, they wouldn't be NPCs at that point by definition, but they'd also be pretty...

We're going to take a bold stance here on Massively Overpowered and say that sprained ankles are not fun. They're not fun in Population Zero, either,...

I had finally hit level 41 on Red Mage in Final Fantasy XI. That was when the world changed, and if you played the game,...

If you dropped out of Fallout 76 before the Wastelanders update, you may have been inspired to go back already. However, if you never stepped...

Ah, the many different sorts of quests in Phantasy Star Online 2 never fail to provide a panoply of things for players to do....

The newest event for Star Wars: The Old Republic arrives in the game along with update 6.1.2, but you don't need to wait that long...

In Final Fantasy XI, all Goblin enemies have an ability called Bomb Toss. It hurts your entire party a fair amount when it hits,...

If you've been exploring Albion Online on mobile or if you just like the option when you're not at home (there was a time...