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Elite Dangerous attempts to explain its balancing act between sharing details and communicating too much
A common refrain among players of Elite: Dangerous is that developer Frontier Developments isn't communicative enough - a pain point that the studio says...
Star Citizen discusses balancing for shields, energy weapons, ships, and thrusters coming in alpha 3.14
While the upcoming alpha 3.14 build of Star Citizen has a number of headline features of its own like the Orison landing area, there...
Elite Dangerous deploys a fix to weapons engineering in an effort to alleviate material grinds
The materials required to engineer weapons in Elite Dangerous: Odyssey are pretty high right now, all things considered. With a recent small patch applied...
EVE Online announces the return of the 10v10 Alliance Tournament PvP event
After a two year-long hiatus, fans of official PvP tournament action in EVE Online as CCP Games announced the return of the Alliance Tournament...
The Stream Team: Mission running in Elite Dangerous Odyssey
Last time MOP's Chris took to the stars of Elite: Dangerous, he was in the final leg of Odyssey's alpha test, and in spite...
Perfect Ten: MMOs with the noisiest fanbases
In my particular neck of the woods, there are a lot of big fans of the Boston Red Sox. There's also something of a...
No, Cryptic isn’t giving Magic Legends refugees 7K Zen – but here’s what you *are* getting
Cryptic giveth and Cryptic taketh away: PWE and Cryptic sent 'round an email to some Magic Legends players today night, a "thank-you gift" for...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 330: Swords of Crows Online
Justin and Bree discuss the launches of Crowfall and Swords of Legends Online, Fallout 76, WoW's story mess, and Elite Dangerous, with adventures in Albion Online, LOTRO, SWG Legends, Crowfall, WoW Classic, and FFXIV, plus a quick mailbag topic on Albion crafting.
EVE Online warps in a ‘community-inspired’ patch
Whether they're the arrogant players who think they know better than the actual MMO developer or the dedicated fans who want nothing less than...
Elite Dangerous’ David Braben delays Odyssey on console to ‘reprioritise the core PC experience’
Elite Dangerous' Odyssey expansion has been a bit of a bungle, all told. While players initially embraced the new content, even we noted it...
The Daily Grind: Do you *really* want MMOs to be constantly changing and evolving?
On Napyet's podcast last year, I talked about the differences between SWGemu and SWG Legends, both Star Wars Galaxies emulators with very different goals....
The Stream Team: Spaceship shenanigans in Star Wars Galaxies Legends
Ever since his first-ever adventure in Star Wars Galaxies for Choose My Adventure, MOP's Chris has been eager to continue working his way through...
EVE Online has added an early test version of its Opportunities system for new characters
One of the most basic problems of starting new in EVE Online is simply dealing with the fact that there's a whole lot to...
Star Citizen’s June development report outlines work on alpha 3.14, standalone tools, and AI behaviors
As we slowly move through the early days of July, it's time for CIG to check in with the development report for June for...
Massively Overthinking: Which of the summer MMO launches captured your time and attention?
OK folks: We're in the thick of summer now, a summer that's seen an endless parade of MMO launches, mobile ports, expansions, classic servers,...
Elite Dangerous threatens to ban players over toxic behavior toward devs
Elite Dangerous has drawn a line in the sand on toxicity - toxicity against its staff, that is.
Frontier's lead community manager, Arthur Tolmie, posted...
Perfect Ten: Worst MMO expansion names of all time
Back when Daybreak announced that EverQuest's 19th expansion would be titled Rain of Fear, I instantly found myself tripping over the name. I shouldn't...
Elite Dangerous applies fixes related to missions, commodities, and faction influence in new patch
It's not a big honkin' patch like the game has previously gotten, but the fact that Elite: Dangerous has released a little server-side patch...
Choose My Adventure: Space combat is yet another vast and interesting layer to Star Wars Galaxies
What even is this game? This is a question I seem to be asking myself a lot as I continue to scrape at the...
Star Citizen talks about upcoming medical gameplay, FPS hacking and radar, and inventory updates
This past episode of Calling All Devs was primarily about planned updates to the core gameplay loops of Star Citizen -- primarily, injury and...