interviews
Overwatch devs consider harnessing machine learning to fight toxicity
According to a new Blizzard interview on Kotaku this week, Overwatch toxicity has a new enemy: AI. Jeff Kaplan says that Blizzard has "been...
SWTOR teases its new expansion, Cartel Market updates, and more coming by year’s end
With all the April Fool's updates and misinformation that were flying around this weekend, it was a little difficult to tell what was a...
Hyperspace Beacon: The SWTOR prank that revealed so much about the hungry fanbase
With April Fool's Day falling on a Sunday, Passover, and Easter, I didn't actually spend a lot of time on the internet watching the...
Perfect Ten: Why I (grudgingly) put up with Secret World Legends’ reboot
Less than a year ago, I faced a crisis as a fan and player of The Secret World. Funcom abruptly announced that it would...
EVE Evolved: Get ready for EVE Fanfest 2018!
There's just a week and a half to go before EVE Fanfest 2018, the biggest event in the EVE Online social calendar. The event kicks...
World of Warcraft’s first 3-D level designer is Kickstarting a massive behind-the-scenes book, and it’s already written
The Ancient Gaming Noob himself tipped us off today to a bizarre but intriguing Kickstarter that should appeal to that cross-section of our audience...
GDC 2018: Exploring SpatialOS with Improbable CCO Bill Roper
SpatialOS: You've probably been seeing this name pop up more and more in the MMO sphere. Worlds Adrift, Mavericks, Fractured, Seed, MetaWorld, and Identity are just some of the titles we've...
GDC 2018: Yokozuna, big game data, and the future of MMO monetization
GDC isn't E3. It isn't PAX. It's not even what I think stereotypical gamers can appreciate. But I think the Massively OP crowd is...
GDC 2018: Making sense of battle royale MMO Mavericks with Automaton Games
So as you may know, I'm an MMORPG guy - not really a battle royale guy. There are some cool ideas for people who like...
Bless says its excessive attention to environmental detail is in the service of immersion
With Bless Online due out on western shores this coming May, players who've never paid much attention to this Korean-born MMO may be wondering...
MMO Mechanics: The Fair Play Alliance and mechanising fairness
News of over 30 gaming companies taking a united stand against unfairness and toxicity in online game communities sprung out of GDC 2018 a...
Game industry unionization: Game Workers Unite, IGDA, and GDC
Earlier this week, we covered the emerging Game Workers Unite organization, something many folks in the games industry considered tantamount to unionization, which multiple...
Shroud of the Avatar: Partying with Portalarium, countering pay-to-win, and the state of the game
The day is finally arriving: Shroud of the Avatar is formally launching next week. It's been a long journey. The path to this new old-school...
Bless Online interview: On soft launch, monetization, classes – and no lockboxes
Earlier today, we posted up Bless Online's new trailer and big news: That's it's launching on Steam early access as a buy-to-play title this coming...
Interview: ArcheAge 4.5 Legends Return launches April 5th with dragon taming and fresh start servers
If I were to tell you that ArcheAge's next big update is launching next month, you'd tell me that it's too soon. And we'd...
Guild Chat Special Edition: Interviewing Guild Wars 2 guild POOF
Welcome along to Guild Chat, the column through which we examine all things guild-related and solve problems faced by fellow members of the Massively...
Path of Exile’s Bestiary expansion launches today, boasting 3.5M global players
Path of Exile's 3.2.0 update, Bestiary, goes live on PC this afternoon with Xbox One to follow eventually; patching got underway a few hours...
Cyberpunk 2077 prepares fans for a ‘blockbuster’ franchise
Fans of CD Projekt Red and its games are no doubt starving for any morsel of information about the upcoming Cyberpunk 2077. And while...
Interviewing an Asheron’s Call Shard Slayer: On griefing, doxxing, losing mates, and winning MMOs
Last month, I put together an article and pair of videos discussing Asheron's Call's Shard of the Herald event to celebrate the game's first deathiverary....
Warcraft movie director says the production experience was ‘traumatic’
During an interview with SyFy about his upcoming movie, Duncan Jones dishes on his experience directing the 2016 Warcraft film based in the universe...
