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Battle Bards Episode 156: Feeling blue
Is blue a color? An emotion? A song? An overused alien skin tone? One thing is for certain: Blue shows up an awful lot...
Make My MMO: Book of Travels’ Kickstarter travels past $150K and promises a player music system
This week in MMO crowdfunding, the Kickstarter for Book of Travels journeyed onward as Might and Delight has now pulled in over $150K mark...
Guild Wars 2 has lost yet another developer, this time to Bungie
Even if you disregard the poor community reception of some of ArenaNet's recent initiatives, it's been a rough couple of months for Guild Wars...
Flameseeker Chronicles: The best of Guild Wars 2’s Living World soundtrack
One of my earliest impressions of the Guild Wars franchise, before I even owned it, but had only played it at a friend’s house,...
Diablo IV opens the Dark Gallery to showcase dark locales of the dark ARPG
Dare you stare into the heart of darkness that is Diablo IV's Dark Gallery? Beware, reader. You can't just look at these pictures. You...
Jukebox Heroes: The best of Ys Online’s soundtrack
Stretching back to the late 1980s, the Ys role-playing series has had a long and fruitful run, with nearly five million copies of its...
A gamer has lovingly recreated Beavis and Butt-Head in Star Trek Online
Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Dumbass. It's five-year mission: To find T.P. for its bunghole. To ruthlessly mock...
LOTRO weathers Minas Morgul launch day bumps, promises soundtrack
Because evil never sleeps in Mordor, it is always coming up with new ways to mess up game launches. That's the true insidious nature...
Aura Kingdom’s new class lets you literally be a Rock Star
Whether you want to get glam or get metal, Aura Kingdom's newest class is going to let you bring an axe of a different...
WoW Factor: Battle for Azeroth was a complete waste of time
Well, dear readers, I was totally wrong. All of you predicting that this expansion was a waste of time were right and I was...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV patch 5.1 in review, part 1
I always think I can get these patch-in-review things done in one column. That never turns out to be the case. This time, though, I'm...
Into the Super-Verse: Putting City of Titans’ character builder through its paces
Mark this date in your history books because the battle of superhero MMO character builders is on! Both Ship of Heroes and City of...
Battle Bards Episode 155: FFXIV Shadowbringers
Welcome to the “Cursed Episode” of Battle Bards, where you’ll be risking bad luck and poor RNG rolls just by hearing it! But it...
Book of Travels unlocks new stretch goals based on its success thus far
If the Kickstarter is any indication, Book of Travels has already bewitched a significant number of players with its atmosphere and design. The project has...
WoW Factor: World of Warcraft’s Lich King 2, Tides of Lichness?
All right, I guess we're doing this now. Yes, this column isn't just about how Blizzard screws up so badly that a lot of...
Jukebox Heroes: The best of Fallout 76’s musical score
Last week, composer Inon Zur took to Twitter to celebrate a big moment: "Dear Friends,
Fallout 76 has been nominated for Best Original Video Game...
Chronicles of Elyria shares another pre-alpha video that focuses on environmental sound
There are plenty of ways for MMOs to set a scene. Visuals are certainly one of the more important, but audio plays just as...
Jukebox Heroes: Exploring World of Warcraft Battle for Azeroth’s patch music
One of my favorite modern trends of MMORPGs is that studios are no longer saving the entirety of a soundtrack for the base game or expansion releases. Oh sure, those usually get a great album push -- especially if it's one of the bigger games -- but for a while now, many studios have also been releasing new music on a steady basis with significant content patches.
Black Desert preps Halloween and Great Expedition on PC, awakens the Tamer on Xbox One
Black Desert Online's PC version is busy prepping its boat for the Great Expedition update coming next week, but in the meantime, there's Halloween...
The MOP Up: Star Trek Online’s thorny patrol
Cryptic is really hot to trot with Star Trek Online's new patrol system, and this past week the studio highlighted the third new one:...
