impressions
First Impressions: The War Within breathes new life into World of Warcraft
After being mostly disappointed with Dragonflight, I was wondering if my decision to return to World of Warcraft for the Worldsoul Saga was a...
Team-based PvP shooter Concord’s release was marked by low interest and middling impressions
This past Friday saw the multiplayer world get yet another live service team-based PvP FPS in the form of Concord, and if that description...
Not So Massively: Immortal Gates of Pyre offers multiplayer RTS fans a glimmer of hope
It's been a busy month for fans of the real time strategy genre. Even as Stormgate ran its early access preview, another crowdfunded StarCraft...
Choose My Adventure: Mission runs cap off a welcoming return to Elite Dangerous
What a difference a month makes. When I first started these series of Elite Dangerous posts for Choose My Adventure, I had gone into...
Tarisland unlocks its epic spider boss for extreme squishing
Following a patch last week that gave players a helping hand through the Arcane Realm floor challenge, Tarisland opened the doors of a new...
Hands-on with Arc Games’ Fellowship, a new game trying to distill the MMORPG dungeon experience
For many folks, one of the more entertaining aspects of playing an MMORPG is running through its dungeons (though of course that varies from...
Chrono Odyssey shares combat impressions from a recent small-scale test
It's been some time since we've heard a peep out of Chrono Odyssey, the splashy UE5-powered MMORPG from developer Npixel and publisher Kakao Games,...
Wisdom of Nym: The actual storytelling issues with Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail
I'm not exactly surprised that basically any controversy vis-a-vis Final Fantasy XIV's most recent expansion is pretty much completely focused on the story (with...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV’s Arcadion brings the noise
There has been a question that has kind of been bubbling in the background of the entire premise behind Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail, and...
EA is testing a cross-progression PC version of mobile MMO Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes
It's been a hot minute since we heard anything big out of EA's multiplayer mobile battler Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes, but today's news...
Not So Massively: The problem with The First Descendant’s character unlock mechanics
The First Descendant has made quite a splash since it launched earlier this month. Nexon's looter shooter, dubbed "Warframe with waifus" by the greater...
Global Chat: FFXIV rides out on the Dawntrail
The blogosphere is buzzing about the recent release of FFXIV: Dawntrail, including The Nosy Gamer, who provided some first thoughts and impressions of this...
First Impresions: Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail is a dense summer getaway for the MMORPG
I finished up Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail's story a while ago, but I've been spending a couple days turning over what I think about...
Nexon’s co-op looter-shooter The First Descendant has officially launched today
It's launch day for Nexon's The First Descendant, a word I still manage to misspell even after covering this game for at least the...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail’s relatively smooth early access isn’t a sign of doom
On Sunday evening, I had to log out from Final Fantasy XIV to take care of an errand. This is not unusual. It is,...
The First Descendant talks up new characters, ultimate weapons, and tools to make the perfect build
We're only days away from the global launch of Nexon's looter shooter The First Descendant, which means that fans might already be considering their...
MOBA-like battle royale Battle Crush begins its free-to-play early access to scathing Steam reviews
What do you get when you take shrunken mythological heroes as well as a couple of random mascots and pit them against one another...
Once Human claims to have taken the ‘Triple Crown’ on Steam with wishlist numbers and demo players
Can you win at being on Steam? If you ask NetEase, the answer is not only "yes," but it's also followed up with, "and...
First impressions of ASKA, Sand Sailor’s brand-new colony-building survival sandbox
Thanks to the press preview hosted by Thunderful and Sand Sailor, I recently had the opportunity to play around with survival sandbox ASKA a...
First Impressions: Tarisland’s interesting gameplay isn’t enough to surmount shoddy temport quality
When we issued our 2024 predictions for the MMORPG genre during our annual year-end articles, I said that Tarisland would be a sleeper hit,...
