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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...
Genshin Impact takes cheat makers to court for copyright infringement
You have to be a special sort of sad to want to cheat in a game like Genshin Impact, let alone one who would...
Choose My Adventure: Genshin Impact is a perfectly lovely single-player RPG
Before I begin, I want to point out that I promise I didn't write that headline just to get anger clicks. I don't want...
Choose My Adventure: Genshin Impact is slowly working its charms on me
Perhaps this is just time away from the game or the full mental and literal reset talking, but I have to say that right...
Genshin Impact brings a New Year’s celebration, new region, and more characters January 31
The world, activities, and gacha roster of Genshin Impact will all continue to balloon when Update 4.4: Vibrant Harriers Aloft in Spring Breeze arrives...
Choose My Adventure: Returning to Genshin Impact in 2024
I'm irritated to admit that this week's edition of Choose My Adventure was more like a misadventure thanks to technical issues, to my surprise,...
Well Fed: An introduction to our MMO kitchen and MOP’s new Well Fed column
Hello fellow MMORPG lovers and food enjoyers alike! Welcome to Well Fed! If you listened to the end-of-year podcast from Bree and Justin, you...
Genshin Impact’s Roses and Muskets brings two more characters and an in-game film festival December 20
What do roses, muskets, a film festival, and Genshin Impact have in common? They're all kind of bundled together with the shared world RPG's...
Genshin Impact brings more story, two more characters, and more of the Fontaine map November 8
How do you stop a flood of water that's capable of dissolving an entire city and all of the people living there? That's the...
