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Star Trek Online’s writer and art director talk about integrating the Mirror Universe with the comics canon
Curious about how many people are playing Star Trek Online at the moment? A new Space.com interview with associate art director Thomas Marrone and writer...
World of Warcraft highlights a permanent Mage Tower and 9.2.5 testing in its latest development update
World of Warcraft players will have to wait a little while longer for the full epilogue to the Shadowlands story, as that's not coming out...
Datamining reveals hints at the possible fate of Sylvanas in World of Warcraft’s story epilogue
So the final cinematic for the latest raid in World of Warcraft has been seen, and we all know how that story wraps up. (If...
Final Fantasy XI looks back at developing the story for its three nation-states at launch
It might be easy to forget with another Square-Enix MMORPG being everyone's focus in the storytelling department, but Final Fantasy XI has been doing the...
World of Warcraft reveals Anduin’s ultimate fate in a new raid cinematic
All right. If you need to be told this from the header, this post and this cinematic is into El Spoilero territory. These are...
Vague Patch Notes: Lore is not an excuse for bad MMO design decisions
In a previous column, I wrote about how gender-locking classes is bad. This is because it is bad. It is bad in all conceivable...
World of Warcraft designers talk storytelling in Shadowlands without saying much
Are you wondering why it is that a random baker from Stormwind can casually walk through a portal to the afterlife and sell bread...
The Daily Grind: Are you more about setting or lore in MMOs?
I have never really thought of myself as a lore person. I don't go into an MMO and memorize the lore or the backstory,...
World of Warcraft’s Steve Danuser discusses some of Sylvanas’ characterization in patch 9.2
Oh, Sylvanas; these days just saying your name prompts all sorts of discussions about the way that World of Warcraft is handling your storyline. They...
Pokemon Go’s Johto Event adds twist to shadow issue, plus new Community Day dates revealed
While we're still waiting for Pokemon Go's hourly pokemon spawns for February 26th's Johto Tour event, Niantic released a surprising update concerning the Masterwork...
Indie sandbox Galaxies of Eden shows off its launcher and lore
Bad news, Galaxies of Eden fans, the Earth does not fare particularly well in the game's backstory. Turns out that using the setting's gateways let...
Star Trek Online teases a new series on Spacedock covering the ships of the game
There are a lot of spaceships in Star Trek Online. This is honestly not surprising; it's a series about spaceships, so it'd be weird...
World of Warcraft releases a new Sylvanas cinematic ahead of patch 9.2
Well, here we are with the first cinematic of World of Warcraft's patch 9.2, and... uh... well, let's start by saying that it's about...
Early datamined cutscenes for World of Warcraft start to piece together the story of patch 9.2
All right, when you get tired of all of the fire covering World of Warcraft and Blizzard Entertainment in general right now, maybe you'd...
Vitae Aeternum: Analyzing New World’s storytelling
I've been wanting to write this column for a while, but it's been a struggle to find the words. I'm never sure of how...
World of Warcraft hints at potentially tying Azeroth back into the story of Shadowlands
So time for a storyline recap for people who are not necessarily up on their World of Warcraft lore. Azeroth is the name of the...
Star Wars: The Old Republic opens up testing for Veteran difficulty in the Elom flashpoint
There is a lot of stuff to test right now on Star Wars: The Old Republic's public test servers. Do you want even more to test out?...
World of Warcraft will be revealing the next Shadowlands content update tomorrow
Playing World of Warcraft at the moment has involved a whole lot of staring at the sky and waiting for rain, metaphorically speaking. So it's...
World of Warcraft quietly removed all of its Torghast 9.0 questline with patch 9.1.0
It seems like basically no one was happy with the plotline that stretched through Torghast in World of Warcraft: Shadowlands. This is not an indefensible...
The Daily Grind: Which NPC do you personally hate the most in your favorite MMOs?
A while back, Bree and I were sharing memories of the original launch of Guild Wars and talking about the exact moment when we...
