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WoW Factor: What does the lack of BlizzCon mean for World of Warcraft?
So we're not having a BlizzCon this year again. Not that one wasn't originally planned or at least in the early stages of planning,...
Dreamworld actually released an alpha, and it’s exactly as bad as you thought it’d be
So, we're back to Dreamworld again. Regular readers already know that this game has been a wild ride ever since it popped up on...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida talks about future destinations, Endwalker job design, and character dating
It was the first new job revealed for Final Fantasy XIV's upcoming expansion Endwalker, but it turns out that Sage was actually the second job designed...
Moonlight Sculptor’s developers discuss the mobile MMORPG’s background and feature set
With the game's global launch arriving tomorrow, Kakao Games and XL Games' mobile MMORPG Moonlight Sculptor probably has a few people wondering just what...
Star Wars: The Old Republic recaps the making of the Secrets of the Enclave flashpoint
So what precisely goes on in writing a Flashpoint story for Star Wars: The Old Republic? If you're curious about that, you can get some...
Here’s how Geoff Keighley aims to improve on 2020’s neverending summer of not-E3
I'm super grateful to all the organizations and games companies that did their level best to provide convention entertainment last summer when the pandemic...
ZOS director says The Elder Scrolls Online will keep releasing content for as long as players stick around
What's the life expectancy of any MMORPG? Certainly there are games that have been around for decades, but those are edge cases at best....
WoW Factor: What would it take for big changes in World of Warcraft?
The last time I wrote an installment of this column, it was in specific response to an interview that contained no small number of...
World of Warcraft’s lead system designer Morgan Day talks about Torghast, raid design, and class tuning
When is patch 9.1 arriving for World of Warcraft? According to a new interview with lead system designer Morgan Day, the answer is still "soon."...
Monster Hunter Rise fan crafts 1000 items for charity while wishing for ducks from the 2019 MMO
What drives a man to craft 1,000 Origami Switch Axes in Monster Hunter Rise? Is it for the challenge? For the laughs? Insanity? In...
Final Fantasy XIV’s Naoki Yoshida talks blacklists, friend lists, and Island Sanctuaries
So you meet some people in a random group in Final Fantasy XIV whom you never want to see ever again, and you blacklist...
EVE Online’s Foundation Quadrant celebrates the game’s 18 years and four empires with challenges and gifts
If you thought that a call for player footage for a video montage was all that EVE Online was planning to do for its...
Wisdom of Nym: What we actually know (vs. what we assume) about Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker
So what's going to happen to Nocturnal Sect? We don't know yet.
I put that front and center because it is one of the current...
The MOP Up: Halo Infinite’s cross-platform pledge
For those looking forward to Halo: Infinite's multiplayer shooty action, you should be pleased to hear that Microsoft has confirmed that the game will...
WoW Factor: What we really learned from the World of Warcraft Hazzikostas interview
The problem with writing about World of Warcraft right now is that there's actually less to write about than you might think. Sure, we've got...
Final Fantasy XIV takes a look at character concept artist Hiroyuki Nagamine’s work
What do the Four Lords, the Koropokkur, and the Fat Cat minion in Final Fantasy XIV all have in common? Well, all of them were...
Player apartments won’t make SWG Legends’ Cloud City expansion launch next week
With SWG Legends' City in the Clouds expansion just a week away, the player devs have dropped a dev blog (yes, really). And it's...
EA insists it’s focused on ‘engagement,’ not monetizing FIFA players into gambleboxes
Yesterday, Canadian outlet CBC published a massive Electronic Arts document leaked by a supposed "gaming insider" that seemingly confirms what you already thought about...
World of Warcraft’s director Ion Hazzikostas has no plans for Legendary refunds but does promise catch-up systems in 9.1
Apparently, you should have an entire collection of Legendary items in World of Warcraft. That's one of the takeaways from an excerpt from a recent...
Star Wars The Old Republic talks about the upcoming Secrets of the Enclave Flashpoint
It's time once again for another de facto dev blog from Star Wars: The Old Republic! BioWare has once more brought forth world designer Allison...
