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The Daily Grind: What MMO has the worst possible maps?
When I think back about the ways in which MMOs have improved over the 15-ish years I've been playing them, my thoughts invariably turn...
Crowfall is spicing up its maps with ‘adventure parcels’
The maps in Crowfall are assembled in a combination of procedural and hand-crafted generation. Individual bits are hand-crafted, but the maps as a whole...
Valiance Online previews its maps as it hunts down bugs
Hunting down bugs in a video game is not the same as hunting down enemies. That's true even if the bug is a severe...
Kingdom of Loot offers a video preview of its upcoming overworld map
Remember Kingdom of Loot? It's cute, it's pixelated, and it's Secret of Mana meets Diablo in early access. So how is that working out?...
The Soapbox: Inconvenience is not immersion in MMOs or anywhere else
Inconvenience is not immersion.
This strikes me as something rather ridiculous to type; to mildly paraphrase Dan Harmon, it seems like should be one of...
The Daily Grind: Are you a completionist in MMOs?
As I level up my many jobs on my main in Final Fantasy XIV, I feel compelled to take on all of the sidequests...
The Daily Grind: Do you like being lost in MMOs?
In Final Fantasy XI, my first MMO, maps were few and far between, often blindingly unclear, and offered as many opportunities to be hopelessly...
Armored Warfare reworks the Ghost Field map
After some major mechanical changes, it's possible that a lot of maps in Armored Warfare just don't have the pop they used to. But...
Gloria Victis massively increases the size of the world
It's a great big world out there, full of opportunities for adventure. It's also a great big world in Gloria Victis, made even bigger...
Albion’s Hector update brings the Black Market, revised Hellgates, and revised Outlands
Hector is coming! That's not a person's name; it's the name of an update in Albion Online, so you can spare yourself getting a...
State of Decay 2 will launch with three large maps
When it comes to sequels, the general philosophy is to go bigger and better than the original. For the zombie-filled State of Decay 2, this...
WoW Factor: Where do we go after WoW Legion?
So at the risk of being dinged for spoiling the current World of Warcraft expansion, let me say this: Azeroth is not going to...
Star Trek Online shows off its sector map for Season 12
It's been a long time since Star Trek Online first launched. The game has subsequently had four expansions, two skill revamps, a new level...
Overwatch activates its Oasis map
Welcome to Oasis: tropical paradise, Arabian aesthetic, and home to high-tech research skyscrapers. Oasis is also the newest map in Overwatch, which means that...
Albion Online discusses reworking the shape of the world
It's a known fact now that Albion Online will remain in beta into 2017, but perhaps you're not entirely clear on why that's the...
Crowfall shows off its unique server maps
In most MMOs, it doesn't matter what server you play on, the world still has the same shape. You don't log in to a...
Star Citizen dataminer uncovers a huge city in the game’s files
It would be pretty disappointing if you could land on all sorts of planets in Star Citizen without ever uncovering more than abandoned sheds...
LawBreakers hosts its third closed alpha this weekend
Anyone eagerly awaiting the next LawBreakers closed alpha test will be happy to know that the wait is almost over. There's still a wait...
Heroes of the Storm patches in a new battleground, new options, and major hero changes
A lot of big stuff has been talked up as new additions to Heroes of the Storm, and with today's patch those features are...
Gigantic releases a big (experimental) update today
The beta test for Gigantic is still ongoing despite the financial difficulty of its development studio, but you can't take part in that test...
