pax 2018
PAX West 2018: Bless Unleashed is nothing like Bless Online
Bandai Namco made a huge announcement just ahead of PAX West 2018: It is releasing Bless Unleashed, a console-only, action MMORPG. The team asked me...
PAX East 2018: An interview with the big griffon statue
Everyone knows that the various people portraying characters at PAX East are just there to portray a character. That's not who they really are....
PAX East 2018: Hands-on with Pantheon Rise of the Fallen
Those who have read a fair amount of my work will know that nostalgia is something I tend to rail against pretty hard. I'm...
PAX East 2018: Frostkeep’s MMO Rend has come a very long way in just one year
My experience with Rend last year felt a bit like stepping into a faerie circle and slipping into another world, sneaking up to a...
PAX East 2018: Hands-on with the surprisingly solid combat of Ashes of Creation
This year's PAX East featured a lot of games early in their testing phase, but Ashes of Creation was one that had splurged for...
PAX East 2018: Hands-on with The Elder Scrolls Online’s Summerset
One of the fun parts of this job - or one of the odd parts, depending on how you prioritize things - is how...
PAX East 2018: Talking superhero MMOs with Ship of Heroes’ Casey McGeever
At this year's PAX East, I discovered that my mental picture of Casey McGeever did not match the actual man in person, but that...
PAX East 2018: Guild Wars 2 game director Mike Zadorojny on Path of Fire, monetization, and more
It's not every day that you walk into a building dominated by an enormous griffon, the enormous statue replicating the mount in Guild Wars...
PAX East 2018: Final Fantasy XIV’s main scenario writing and localization
It's easy to have little to no idea about how Final Fantasy XIV is localized. Obviously the localization team has advanced beyond the days...
Pantheon offers special PAX pledge tier worth $1000, gives five of them away in contest
Among the more unusual business model setups for the incoming wave of indie MMORPGs is Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's. As we've previously covered,...