permadeath

In real life, when you die the penalty is... death. You just get that one go at things. But in MMOs, player characters are...

The weird thing about our perception of time is that we don't always realize just how much things are changing around us unless we...

Today, we finally learn what John Smedley has been working on since he resigned from his decades-long role at Daybreak. The industry veteran has founded indie...

Indie sandbox Chronicles of Elyria captured MMORPG players' attention last autumn when it began revealing details about some of its more unusual mechanics, including...

Back in November, ArtCraft promised that it would soon be revealing a significant design element for Crowfall that would "require a shift in the...

Earlier this year, Kotaku ran a piece on how to make your favorite games feel new again once they've gotten a bit stale. Since...

Do you need a game that's so dark that if it were any darker it'd be a pure black rectangle on your monitor? Are...

I really enjoy being a guest on Larry Everett's video series Massively Opinionated, a series in which MMO enthusiasts answer some tough questions and...

Announced earlier this year, Chronicles of Elyria is a startup sandbox in a sea of such sandboxes, but some of its features are rare even...

Announced earlier this year, Chronicles of Elyria is a startup sandbox in a sea of such sandboxes, but some of its features are rare even...

EverQuest has evolved quite a bit over the years, but some folks prefer reliving the classic experience. Project 1999 -- recently given a written...

Are you afraid? You should be, according to the website for Project Dogmat, which bills itself as a roleplay-friendly MMORPG with a "modern gothic...

Eco's recent stretch goal reveal tickled my fancy, mainly because I've been ranting about the lack of meaningful criminal justice systems in PvP sandboxes for...

Like the idea of survival games, but not PvP? Wish your class involved video games? Maybe you want to doom humanity to choking itself...

Haven & Hearth should look and feel a bit familiar to fans of Salem. That's not entirely surprising; both games have the same brain...

I'm standing with my PR contact at the Life is Feudal booth when suddenly a guy with a thick Russian accent walks up to me,...

Salem's "beta" officially ended this weekend, according to a post by Mortal Moments project lead John Carver. "Salem has been designed from both a business...

Individual character permadeath is so yesterday, right? An upcoming title, ECO, dares to think even bigger, proposing "server-wide permadeath" if players can't band together and...

Post-apocalyptic sci-fantasy MMO Novus Inceptio is now on Steam Greenlight. The indie title aims to diverge from current MMO norms and create an "integrated...

This week's Massively Overthinking topic comes to us from Kickstarter donor Antonia "Toni" Phillips aka ToniLyran, who's hit on a sore point with our writers, it...