interviews
Interview: Barunson on the state of Astellia Online as it launches on Steam today
Astellia Online was big news throughout 2019, as Barunson sought to bring the South Korean MMORPG westward but with careful attention paid to so-called...
Star Trek Online: Tenth anniversary giveaways, lifetime sale, and story leak
Outer space has never been so active as it is right now thanks to Star Trek Online's 10th anniversary. Cryptic is handing out daily...
Blitzchung: No regrets for speaking up for Hong Kong despite Hearthstone suspension
Chung Ng Wai, better known as Blitzchung, took a big risk when he spoke out in support of Hong Kong on an official Hearthstone stream....
thatgamecompany’s multiplayer adventure Sky: Children of the Light is coming to PS4 and Nintendo Switch
Some of my fondest multiplayer memories came from the PS3 game Journey, which came from the devs at thatgamecompany, who were responsible for similarly...
Nexon exec Jon Jelinek reminisces about WildStar and World of Warcraft
Previous web designer on World of Warcraft and executive producer on WildStar (and now Nexon OC general manager) Jon Jelinek recently sat down for...
Presidential hopeful Joe Biden calls out Silicon Valley game devs as ‘creeps’
It would appear that US presidential hopeful and former vice president Joe Biden has an unkind view of most Silicon Valley tech companies and...
EVE Evolved: Fight or Flight is a season for change in EVE Online
January marks not just the beginning of a new year for EVE Online but also the start of a new seasonal development strategy for...
Tamriel Infinium: Elder Scrolls Online’s Rich Lambert on the Dark Heart of Skyrim
At this week's live reveal of the Dark Heart of Skyrim for The Elder Scrolls Online, I had the chance to sit down with...
New World just took a hard turn away from a PvP slugfest, and hardcore PvPers are not happy
Even knowing it was slated to arrive, I was still surprised last night when Amazon Game Studios dropped New World's latest dev blog well...
Blizzard is not planning World of Warcraft 8.3.5, so N’Zoth is the last big thing until Shadowlands
If you had been hoping for more heritage armor, system expansion, or anything else in World of Warcraft ahead of Shadowlands... well, your hopes appear to...
Elder Scrolls Online is promising viewership shenanigans for Dark Heart of Skyrim reveal event
Still curious about what precisely "Dark Heart of Skyrim" will mean for The Elder Scrolls Online? We're still set for the big reveal this...
The Internet Historian takes a look at the fall and rise of No Man’s Sky (and reads a racy Sean Murray fanfic)
Just how far has No Man's Sky come since its disastrous launch? It's one thing for someone to do all of the research on...
Star Trek Online devs talk about 2019 content updates and vague 2020 plans in a podcast
Right before the folks at Star Trek Online took their holiday break, there was time to speak with the Priority One podcast about how...
Escape from Tarkov confirms no playable female characters because of ‘game lore’ and workload
Sorry, ladies, but it's just too ding-dong-dang difficult to put y'all in Escape from Tarkov. That's the cited reason why the game's developer, Battlestate Games,...
SpatialOS boss Herman Narula believes multiplayer gaming could overtake social media
The methods we interact with one another digitally have grown by leaps and bounds, to be sure. We've moved from AOL IMs to social...
The best Massively OP streams of 2019
Massively OP's Stream Team - with MJ and her sidekicks Larry and Chris at the helm - changed up its streaming tactics this year,...
Members of Guild Wars 2’s narrative team discuss an ArenaNet narrative mentorship program
To hear Guild Wars 2 narrative designer Novera King and associate narrative director Bobby Stein tell it, getting into video game narrative work is...
Interview: Star Citizen on the Argo MOLE and the future of mining gameplay in alpha 3.8
It was probably easy to assume that the marquee feature of Star Citizen's alpha 3.8 was going to be blowing wind. That's not all,...
Star Citizen: Alpha 3.8 on the PTU, SOCS interview, Pillar Talk, and the BBC Click investigation
Star Citizen is having a huge last week before the holidays. Let's round it all up, shall we?
First, the patch: Alpha 3.8 was pushed...
Brendan ‘PlayerUnknown’ Greene explains that Prologue is not PUBG 2
Out of the deluge of trailers that were shotgunned into your face during this year's Game Awards, perhaps one that flew beyond your notice...
