game mechanics
Final Fantasy XI previews its smaller April version update
With the changing of producers from Akihiko Matsui to Yoji Fujito, Final Fantasy XI fans were told to expect that the game's monthly version...
Tower of Fantasy releases information about its next major update, Under the Great Sea, releasing March 30
So Tower of Fantasy has released a theme song for update 2.4, Under the Great Sea, and it will enrage you if you are...
Perfect Ten: A primer on 10 very basic MMO fight mechanics
When the first two humans decided to get into a fight, they were just pushing one another and telling the other person to quit...
EVE Online changes the rules for factional warfare in latest update
The cutthroat nature of EVE Online means that sometimes you might have to choose between the player corporation you want to work for and...
World of Warcraft promises more race-class combos, discusses affixes, cross-faction guilds, and cadence
Do you want more class and race combinations in World of Warcraft? Possibly the additional ones we already know exist, like Night Elf Paladins...
World of Warcraft previews the multiple variants of Orc and Human heritage armor coming with 10.0.7
While World of Warcraft is not a game lacking in playable races by any stretch of the imagination, Orcs and Humans are the two...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite MMO minipet?
Once upon a time, a very smart woman was looking at an MMO's design document. "We have pet classes for people who are scared...
New World discusses the upcoming Legacy of Crassus event and world bosses in general
Who doesn't like a world boss? There's something fun about just seeing some big thing and watching everyone in a zone decide "let's go...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the most satisfying classes?
Not every MMO has classes. Sometimes that's more a function of strict definition than anything; sure, your character can technically do anything, but as...
Final Fantasy XIV suspends European housing demolition in wake of Turkiye, Syria earthquakes
No one wants to be worried about stuff in a video game in the wake of a natural disaster, which is why Final Fantasy...
Star Trek Online is making changes to Pilot Bridge Officers for greater utility
So it might seem like piloting isn't really much of a thing in Star Trek, since you just tell the person sitting at the...
New World discusses the mechanics and timing of leaderboards
Who doesn't like a leaderboard? It's like a high score table for an arcade game, except it's online and you can't claim that the...
Overwatch 2’s director maps out the future without map pools and less map frequency
Hey there, Overwatch 2 player! Do you like map pools? No, you don't; basically no one did, and so they're being removed according to...
World of Warcraft dataminers pluck out the new Primordial Gems from patch 10.0.7
"Whatever you might think about Blizzard or World of Warcraft: Dragonflight," cries the fan set, "you have to be happy that the studio has...
World of Warcraft posts a hype trailer for the Trading Post opening on February 1st
Are you sufficiently hype for getting new cosmetic rewards in World of Warcraft via the upcoming Trading Post? It might seem a little odd...
Wakfu looks back at 2022 while planning its improvements for 2023
If you've somehow missed it over the past decade of its operation, Wakfu is a bit of an odd game. We do not mean...
Final Fantasy XIV adds its newest Ultimate fight today with the Omega Protocol
Now that we have a clearer picture about the cosmology and details of the struggles that Omega left in its wake, it's totally understandable...
New World offers up a new video explaining how deceptively hard an MMO actually is to make
Video games are hard. You know that, but it isn't ever really clear how hard from the other side of the screen, and that's...
The Daily Grind: Which MMO has the best UI?
The UI is the point of interaction between the player and the rest of an MMO. We don't really think about it that way,...
Prosperous Universe shares its upcoming UI design changes
It's easy to feel as if the UI in any game isn't really a big deal because... well, it's just the UI. It naturally...
