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TennoCon and DragonCon raised over $200K apiece for charity this summer
Two of my most favorite gaming conventions of the year have one great thing in common: Both TennoCon and Dragon Con raise money for...
Vitae Aeternum: Rise of the Angry Earth mounts and flail are the lift New World needed
New World's first expansion is here, although if I'm being honest it feels more like the second expansion, considering the scale of the Brimstone...
Funcom celebrates its 30th anniversary as it looks back at Anarchy Online, Conan, and Secret World
It's a landmark year for Funcom, as the Norwegian video game developer celebrates its 30th anniversary.
The studio got started making games for the Genesis...
The Daily Grind: What’s your favorite disquieting MMO zone?
As a whole, horror is a rather underserved genre in MMOs in general because it's hard to be particularly horrified in a game where...
Warframe prepares a headless horsewoman for its spooky October update
Hope you're ready to embrace pure space horror because Warframe's October update is anything but tame and safe. Last night, Digital Extremes announced that...
Interview: New World’s Scot Lane on Edengrove housing, transmog tokens, and more
In part one of my interview with New World's game director Scot Lane, we covered topics such as the game's past, future plans, and...
Interview: New World’s Scot Lane on the MMO’s past, future, and upcoming dungeon finder
New World launched two years ago today. While it may have stumbled out of the gate, I believe it has since evolved into one...
WoW Factor: So Blizzard backtracked on WoW Classic’s dungeon finder
So in April last year, I wrote a whole article about how World of Warcraft's development team was taking a gigantic misstep when it...
One Shots: Just a minute, Mom, I’m playing with my virtual dollhouse!
If playing with physical dollhouses is your entry-level and full-on interior decorating your advanced mode, then video games offer a middle ground to those...
Vitae Aeternum: The pros and cons of New World’s transmog
In my very first Vitae Aeternum two years ago, I criticized some of the ways New World lacks character customization. It took a while,...
The Daily Grind: Should MMOs offer tools to let you hide all other players?
A while back, an MOP commenter opined that MMOs should always offer players the option to fully block - that is to say, mute...
Massively Overthinking: The dumbest deaths in MMORPGs
This past week has been amusing for everyone in the MMO community and beyond who loves to watch people die stupid deaths in video...
Warframe’s Halloween-themed Abyss of Dagath cements 2023 as the year of creep
It is no secret how much I love Halloween, horror, and all things eerie and spooky, so learning about Warframe's next update Abyss of...
Previewing New World’s Rise of the Angry Earth expansion: Artifact gear, endgame, crafting, and onward
In my previous Vitae Aeternum column, I covered the big tentpole features of New World's first paid expansion, Rise of the Angry Earth, including...
New World’s first expansion, Rise of the Angry Earth, launches October 3 with mounts, flails, new housing, and more
New World's 2023 roadmap promised its first expansion, but until now, we had few details on what that meant. Recently the folks at Amazon...
Warframe’s Whispers in the Walls adds new narrative, hub, and Tenno ‘skin’
What is TennoCon but the opportunity to debut something big for Warframe? Every year Digital Extremes introduces players to new and exciting content that's...
TennoCon 2023: Warframe 1999’s trailer goes back to the future
As with every TennoCon, Digital Extremes likes to tease players with a little blast of what will be featured at the next con. Of...
The Daily Grind: What were the worst mistakes made in the history of MMORPGs?
A few weeks back, in his retrospective on The Secret World, MOP's Tyler opined that Secret World Legends (or more specifically, the decision to reboot...
Mad World shares the rest of its 2023 roadmap with tribal wars and Halloween
Poor Mad World: This splatterpunk horror MMO was birthed into this world in about the most messy fashion possible while still surviving. And as...
Star Anvil’s Secret World TTRPG is about to start delivering draft digital rulebooks to backers
The progress for Star Anvil Studios' tabletop RPG rendition of The Secret World continues to make forward movement. The latest announcement post from Kickstarter...
