interviews
Nightingale talks up its aspirations to be a unique survivalbox and a ‘story engine’ for players
You can't fault the gaslamp survival sandbox Nightingale from wanting to continue to keep player interest high, especially after the devs at Inflexion confirmed...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMOs that took aim at World of Warcraft
The fact that we currently have a Big Five in the MMO space is a big change from not so long ago, when the...
How Naoki Yoshida rose from Square’s ‘stray dogs’ to ‘king’ of Final Fantasy XIV
Naoki Yoshida is that rare breed of game director who is not only liked by his playerbase but downright beloved, with player chants of...
WoW Factor: The problem with borrowed power was never new systems
There's a bit of cognitive disconnect that I notice is still tripping up some particular fans of World of Warcraft even at this point....
Past Fate’s new trailer announces open alpha on August 15, tentatively sets early access for August 27
Last week, the Kickstarted sandbox MMORPG Past Fate announced its intentions to start early access in August in an interview, but now it looks...
Final Fantasy XI and Ragnarok Online studio heads look to the future and discuss classic servers
The 20th anniversary site for Final Fantasy XI continues to offer new interviews, and the latest one caps off a series of discussions with...
Vitae Aeternum: New World interview on Summer Medleyfaire, solo play, housing, and more
With the launch of New World's Summer Medleyfaire patch and event this morning, we naturally had questions about the new systems and the future...
Wisdom of Nym: Forgotten and abandoned systems in Final Fantasy XIV
The weird thing when talking about Final Fantasy XIV when compared with a whole lot of MMOs is that it doesn't have a lot...
Working As Intended: MMOs that wish they were Star Wars Galaxies
"My friends and I would skin someone alive for an SWG 2," an old Star Wars Galaxies player recently wrote on Reddit, and that...
Raph Koster talks about the ‘mission’ of Playable Worlds, his vision of the metaverse, and player ownership
Raph Koster is no stranger to talking about the concept of the metaverse - he's done it a couple of times already, trying to...
MMO Business Roundup: Blizzard Albany’s union, BioWare Pride, Sony’s antitrust lawsuit, and the P2E ‘hustle’
Welcome back to another roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business!
Activision-Blizzard: Another group of QA testers within Activision-Blizzard have announced they're...
Camelot Unchained checks in with updates to siegecraft, animations, the Heavy Fighter, and the St’rm race
Camelot Unchained has once again returned with its monthly newsletter and development blog - a bit later than usual this time around - offering...
Kickstarted MMORPG Past Fate previews gameplay, eyes early access in August
We've been keeping tabs on the development trajectory of Past Fate, the indie sandbox MMORPG from Icy North Games, for quite some time. The...
World of Warcraft’s Dragonflight alpha removes gendered body type text, briefly adds selectable pronouns
There are a lot of features present in the first alpha test of World of Warcraft: Dragonflight, but one feature that wasn't highlighted directly...
Lord of the Rings Online producer leaves Standing Stone Games after a little over a year
The Lord of the Rings Online community was shocked this weekend to learn that Oleg Brodskiy, more commonly known as "Raninia" on the site,...
Unity’s CEO says game devs who don’t include monetization in their design process are ‘f*cking idiots’
Not since Square-Enix president Yosuke Matsuda's notorious letter about pursuing NFTs has someone in the games industry so spectacularly lost the plot that we're...
The Soapbox: Fallout 76 absolutely needs better social tools to thrive
Unpopular opinion time: I have to say that Fallout 76... is kind of a great game right now. I know that the launch and...
Final Fantasy XIV takes a look behind the scenes at the tasks of the localization team
It can be easy at times to forget that Final Fantasy XIV is a multilingual title with day-and-date releases for every major patch -...
Game dev flips a panel into an anti-crypto attack, earning applause from attendees and ire from NFT sponsors
Many folks may not have heard of Mark Venturelli, a designer for the turn-based strategy title Chroma Squad and founder of developers Critical Studio...
MMO Business Roundup: Preservation, charity, modding, memes, and Microsoft’s merger
Welcome back to another quick roundup of MMO and MMO-adjacent industry news. Business business business.
Microsoft ABK: It's not just the US digging into Microsoft's...
