interviews
League of Legends community clashes with Riot over e-sports, patches, and money
It's no surprise when drama crops up in a gaming community of millions, especially when professional e-sports and money are involved. So it goes...
Exploring Japan’s Pokemon Go culture
As some readers may know, I've spent the last few years in Japan trying to tackle the local gaming scene, online and off. While...
Star Citizen demos gameplay in its in-development persistent universe
If you were holding onto your hype waiting for Star Citizen's persistent universe, keep on holding because it's not out yet. But at Gamescom...
International eGames Committee discusses e-sports championships and the Olympics
If you're looking for e-sports at the Summer Olympics, you have your wish... sort of. The International eGames Committee is hosting the 2016 eGames...
World of Warcraft: Legion’s Azsuna is a ‘broken land’
It's kind of a little strange to be reading zone previews of expansion areas, as you know that what is largely unknown and foreign...
Mark Hamill and John Rhys-Davis talk about shooting Squadron 42
You would think that if one were ever able to get Luke Skywalker, Gimli, and that Wing Commander guy into the same room together,...
Empyrean Interactive outlines its plans to resurrect the MMO genre
Empyrean Interactive doesn't like the label of making an MMO; as we've covered here before, the studio prefers to frame its future games as...
Star Citizen deep-dives catastrophic capital ship damage
On this week's Star Citizen:Â Around the Verse, you can safely skip to about 19:30 and peel your eyes wide open. Not that the rest...
Sea of Thieves video helps you get a handle on the game concept
Did you read our Sea of Thieves E3 interview and come out with more questions than you had going into it? Are you still curious...
Hyperspace Beacon: Five reasons I still play Star Wars: The Old Republic
It’s hard not to be negative about your favorite game when it appears that it’s changing its original goals. “What? You’re just now realizing...
Virtus Gaming hopes to be the next big thing for MMORPG communities
Last week, we were contacted by the purveyor of a new online gaming social media platform called Virtus Gaming. Drew Duncan's his name, and...
Guild Wars 2’s Queen Jennah addresses the citizens of Kryta; Divinity’s Reach is so doomed
Guild Wars 2 is continuing its rollout of teasers leading up to the launch of its third living world season next week. Today's entry...
Overwatch’s Jeff Kaplan discusses future plans and competitive mode
A new Kotaku interview with Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan has shed new light on the state of Overwatch -- you know, the game everyone played...
Sea of Thieves shies away from friendly fire and permanent loss
Rare is still feeling out the "emergent world" of Sea of Thieves as the game nears its closed beta testing phase. In an interview...
Blizzard is quietly fighting Overwatch toxicity
If you've started to notice that the community in Overwatch has started to turn vicious in the past few weeks, you're not alone.
In an...
Star Citizen has the financial backing of 500,000 fans
While much is made of Roberts Space Industries' work on Star Citizen, perhaps much less known is the job that Turbulent has performed. This...
Trion’s Scott Hartsman on Trove’s console launch, fighting lag, and whether RIFT is next
Following Trion's announcement earlier this week that its cutesy voxel sandbox MMORPG Trove had registered five million players in its first year and that...
ArenaNet on Guild Wars 2 PvP scouting, aquatic combat, and polling the playerbase
If you thought there was a lot of story in the recent Guild Wars 2 living world season 3 reveal, you're not alone. I...
Pokemon Go designers discuss inspiration and development plans; trading is coming soon
How do you go from making Ingress to making Pokémon Go? We're using the hypothetical "you" here, if it weren't clear; you personally can't...
Marvel Heroes interview covers the many forms of Ultron
Oh sure, Ultron might be this world-domineering robot with an evil bent, but... look at him! He's just so dang chipper about it that...
