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Perfect Ten: Utterly silly MMO transmedia synergy over the years
Remember back when Trion Worlds tried to coin -- or cement -- the term "transmedia synergy" for the relationship between Defiance the game and Defiance the...
One Shots: How to tantalize your dragon
You know what's always a good idea? To go right up to the jagged maw of a ravenous carnivore and tempt fate by trying...
Genshin Impact opens a new area, adds aerial traversal, and brings two new toons November 20
It's almost time for another update to Genshin Impact, and much like others before it, this one has some new things like gacha characters,...
Genshin Impact adds new main story quests and a new character on October 9
Genshin Impact is giving more of what players expect when its next content drop arrives on Wednesday, October 9th. That means a new character,...
The MOP Up: EverQuest II levels up its Roehn Theer raid
An old favorite raid of EverQuest II is about to get an upgrade for the Year of Darkpaw. Daybreak announced that the Celebration Avatar Challenge:...
Genshin Impact joins forces with McDonald’s in a new cross-promotion
You know you've made some sort of, er, impact as a video game if McDonald's is teaming up with you for a cross-promotion, so...
Genshin Impact 5.0 brings a new nation, new characters, and new traversal forms August 28
There's a big beefy update headed to Genshin Impact on Wednesday, August 28th. One that's opening up the sixth nation on the game's world...
Genshin Impact collabs with European drinkable food company to release two new flavors
Look, I'm not going to try to convince anyone reading this that I'm some guru of healthy food or healthy eating habits, but when...
Genshin Impact fans and voice actors accuse Hoyoverse of whitewashing Natlan region’s characters
Genshin Impact is a gacha RPG, so it's understandable that character design is one of its big focal points. However, a preview of...
Genshin Impact’s July 17 Summertide Tales and Scales adds new character and limited-time zone
Most of the time when a game adds a new area, it's a permanent fixture, but that's not going to be the case for...
Four Winds: Wuthering Waves, Genshin Impact, and the burgeoning gacha gaming industry
In the early days of the pandemic, I spent a lot of time covering the then newly released Genshin Impact. The first piece was...
Raph Koster’s new MMORPG is called Stars Reach, and yes, it’s basically Star Wars Galaxies 2
It's June 26th, Star Wars Galaxies' 21st birthday, and I'm sitting on Google Meet talking to none other than MMORPG founding father (and SWG...
Anime hero shooter Second Wave and its developer shut down after a disastrous dev cycle
Over the course of last year, we had been reporting on Second Wave, an anime-styled hero shooter MOBA from developer Challengers Games that looked...
Global Chat: So many questions about Guild Wars 2’s housing
With the news that Guild Wars 2 is adding homesteads in its next expansion, Nerdy Bookahs is not alone in asking a whole ton...
Massively Overthinking: Is tab targeting a problem in MMORPGs?
This past weekend, MMO designer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street lobbed another bomb rather cavalierly into the MMORPG discourse, this one about tab targeting. And maybe...
Genshin Impact brings new challenge content and characters June 5, previews Natlan region
There's a new calendar date for Genshin Impact fans to write down: Wednesday, June 5th. That's when the shared world RPG's latest content update,...
Genshin Impact’s April 24 update adds a new area, new events, and a new frenemy
Normally when Genshin Impact introduces a new character to its big giant gacha machine (which incidentally has helped developer Hoyoverse to be valued at...
Crossplatform gacha MMO Astra Knights of Veda has officially launched as Steam reviews turn red
As promised, Astra Knights of Veda has officially launched today under the HYBE IM banner. The free-to-play fantasy anime mini-MMO boasts crossplay between the...
Genshin Impact collabs with Discovery Channel to raise awareness about natural habitats
It's important to appreciate nature now and again, and even more important to protect it considering the forces that are in the world today....
Genshin Impact brings a new character and potion shop management in March 13 update
The spring season brings a lot of things - flowers, rain, allergies for some folks - but we're not sure managing an alchemical potion...
