game mechanics
World of Warcraft’s 7.3.5 begins testing as allied race, environment, and zone scaling spoilers abound
So the latest raid for World of Warcraft is out now, but perhaps you don't have a regular raid group. What will you do...
City of Titans shares details on creating its mission lines
There's already a lot of lore floating around for City of Heroes-inspired indie MMORPGÂ City of Titans, but all of the lore in the world...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs with PvP-focused factions allow cross-faction interaction?
I'm on-board for World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth focusing on the factional conflict, but there's a side of the factions in WoW that...
The Soapbox: Inconvenience is not immersion in MMOs or anywhere else
Inconvenience is not immersion.
This strikes me as something rather ridiculous to type; to mildly paraphrase Dan Harmon, it seems like should be one of...
Path of Exile shows off the interactions of new skills and support abilities
Part of the fun of Path of Exile is setting up combinations of skills, support skills, and items in order to create a constant...
Revelation Online: ShadowBlade brings Assassin, new class training, and class changes
Do you want to skulk in the shadows in Revelation Online? The new ShadowBlade expansion for the game lets you do just that with...
SWTOR’s double event won’t make today’s 5.6 patch (but the trailer is now live!)
The bad news is that the Star Wars: The Old Republic double event has been pushed back slightly. It was supposed to start today,...
Wisdom of Nym: Classes, job, and the Armoury System in Final Fantasy XIV
Here's how this column got written. Last week, I was talking about new potential jobs based on weapons rather than on jobs that have...
Gloria Victis expands its map and adds some hidden treasures
There's even more land in Gloria Victis now, enough space that everyone has all the reason in the world to spread out and never...
World of Warcraft previews the Burning Throne
Next week, players can start entering the raid that closes out the first storyline ever explored in the World of Warcraft universe. The raid...
Final Fantasy XIV launches patch 4.15 with music and MOBA gameplay
It's time to smash up some robots with other robots in Final Fantasy XIV. There's more to it than that, sure, but the core...
EverQuest II previews the Bastion of Thunder
Really, no one should be building a stronghold just to control portions of the weather. It leads to all sorts of problems later on....
Armored Warfare rolls out on Steam
The original plan for Armored Warfare was to deploy on Steam ahead of its newest update. That didn't quite happen. Instead, the new update...
Wisdom of Nym: Speculating about future Final Fantasy XIV jobs from weapons
The Armoury System places a certain unique burden on Final Fantasy XIV. Any new job doesn't just need to have a distinct mechanical identity,...
MMO Mechanics: What can be learned from Guild Wars 2 Mountgate?
Most often, MMO Mechanics articles focus on the gameplay mechanics that both make the MMO genre unique and those that diversify MMOs from one...
The Daily Grind: Have you ever lost your MMO account information?
The answer for me is yes. I absolutely have. In one particular case, it was heartbreaking but finally proved recoverable; my original Final Fantasy...
Elite: Dangerous player is reaching out to speak with the game’s inscrutable aliens
Remember that Star Trek: The Next Generation episode where the crew spent the entire episode tracking down and struggling to communicate with a destructive...
Dauntless steps back from constant stability upgrades for a major patch
If you've been playing Dauntless since it first released to test audiences, you have probably gotten accustomed to having a large number of patches...
Star Wars: The Old Republic delays the release of the Yavin warzone from patch 5.6
Players of Star Wars: The Old Republic will be able to start taking part in the latest bit of the traitor storyline with the...
Cyberpunk 2077 will include online elements of some sort according to a video interview
When science fiction writers pictured the world of tomorrow back in the mid-'80s, they pictured some things that definitely have not caught on in...
