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Final Fantasy XIV’s final anniversary story closes the book on the origin of the Crystal Exarch
Every year, Final Fantasy XIV has a quartet of anniversary stories to shed more light on the characters of the game's story. But this year,...
LOTRO Legendarium: Is LOTRO getting greedy with its fall content update?
Boars. Beets. Battlestar Galactica. OK, let's talk about one of those things, at least in a roundabout way, because there's no escaping the fact...
Phantasy Star Online 2 announces Episode 5 launch date of September 30 and starts lead-up campaigns
The next episode's worth of content is coming soon to Phantasy Star Online 2 as Episode 5 has been confirmed for a release date...
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands prepatch is up now on the game’s background downloader
If you are one of the many, many people who were ready for World of Warcraft's current expansion to be over and done with on...
Lord of the Rings Online says it’s ‘close’ on re-opening server transfers that have been offline since 2019
For players who have characters stranded on dead or undesirable worlds in Lord of the Rings Online, the question of when Standing Stone Games...
Overwatch is all about Tracer with a new comic book series and special event
It's certainly arguable that Overwatch poster girl Tracer gets plenty of attention on her own, but that doesn't mean she doesn't deserve a bit...
Conan Exiles’ Isle of Siptah expansion launches today as Funcom celebrates 10M users
It's expansion day for Conan Exiles as Isle of Siptah officially launches. You might be tempted to quibble over the use of the word...
Lost Ark announces a launch date of September 23 – in Japan
It doesn't look like it'll be long now before Lost Ark makes its way to Western shores. How do we figure? Because the Korean-built...
Torchlight III is working on a UI scaling slider, according to its latest state of the game address
With repeated patch delays and a lot of last-minute adjustments, you'd be forgiven for harboring suspicions that Torchlight III isn't quite ready to play...
Conan Exiles discusses the Isle of Siptah expansion in a stream, begins testing temperature changes on PTS
As one would expect, Conan Exiles is all about its impending Isle of Siptah expansion with a focus on the new content in the...
LOTRO Legendarium: The quiet consistency of Lord of the Rings Online
I want to start this LOTRO Legendarium column today by talking about, well, by talking about World of Warcraft. Like probably many of you,...
The Division 2 details its upcoming Summit game mode and maps out content for the rest of the year
Remember when a dataminer in May unearthed details of a new game mode that involved a multi-story skyscraper being taken back by Agents? The...
Legends of Aria makes plants extremely mad with the launch of Season 5: Raging Undergrowth
Are you ready to piss off plants? Then you're prepared for Legends of Aria's latest season Raging Undergrowth, which tasks players with thinning the...
Star Wars Galaxies Restoration III is a new rogue server blending the CU with the NGE
One of the best (and arguably also worst) parts of the Star Wars Galaxies emulation community is just how many servers we have to...
Ubisoft CEO address promises ‘real change’ in the wake of massive sexual harassment scandal
While publisher/developer Ubisoft was keen to showcase the games its been working on during the Ubisoft Forward broadcast, what wasn't part of the presentation...
Massively Overthinking: Contemplating in-game advertising
Last week, EA announced that it would finally be removing all the in-game ads from UFC4 after a few days of intense complaining from...
Black Desert counts 40M players as its PC version buffs music and adds new Shai instruments
Pearl Abyss has officially turned 10 years old today, and it's brought some hard liquor to the party. Did I say hard liquor? I...
SMITE’s design director confirms one more new god in 2020, outlines early plans for 2021’s Season 8
If you're not among those who are following SMITE design director A.J. Walker on Twitter, then you might have missed a thread with some...
Ubisoft’s long-delayed Skull and Bones promises new ‘vision’ and a ‘comeback’ next year
If it seems as if you've been hearing about Ubisoft's Skull and Bones for an absurdly long time without a game to show for...
Corepunk is aiming for a ‘WoW Classic difficulty level,’ with housing and farming in the works
With closed beta on the way for this December, Corepunk is generating some degree of interest among cyberpunk MMO fans. To feed the hype...
