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The Daily Grind: Why don’t more PvP sandboxes have consequences?
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...
Eco as an academic tool: Educating with PvE survival and permadeath
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 launches improved ‘eternal alpha’ on August 28th
Haven & Hearth should look and feel a bit familiar to fans of Salem. That's not entirely surprising; both games have the same brain...
E3 2015: Life is Feudal isn’t just another gankbox
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 ends ‘beta,’ adds animal husbandry and more
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...
ECO boasts server-wide permadeath for failure
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...
Survival sandbox Novus Inceptio is now on Greenlight
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...
Massively Overthinking: The return of ‘consequences’ to MMOs
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...
E-sports, permadeath, and completionist are now in the dictionary.com
Dictionary.com has granted a bit of legitimacy to a trio of gaming terms. E-sports, permadeath, and completionist were among the latest batch of words...
How Jedi ruined Star Wars Galaxies
Hope you're not tired of hearing about Star Wars Galaxies because Raph "Holocron" Koster's got SWG on the brain this week, and he's answering...
Salem isn’t dead! It’s launching June 17th
Salem might have slipped off of your radar over the past few years. It's a permadeath, open-PvP sandbox that fell into the perpetual beta trap....
The Game Archaeologist: Roleplaying dreams in Underlight
After years of digging into the field of classic MMOs, I know there aren't too many undiscovered titles that haven't been brought to my attention...
The Game Archaeologist: Middle-earth Online
Out of all of the MMOs that I've played over the years, I must have spent the most time in Lord of the Rings...
Starship Empire gives you command of your own ship and crew
How much would a decent intergalactic starship cost? If you said $10,000, you are totally dreaming -- but you also might be in luck...
Trials of Ascension cancels second Kickstarter campaign
What crowdfunding giveth, crowdfunding also withholdeth. This is the hard lesson that Trials of Ascension has had to learn, not once, but twice.
Less than...
Trials of Ascension attempts another Kickstarter campaign
Permadeath, corpse looting, and no mini-map: Will this be tempting enough to get the community on board with donations? Trials of Ascension hopes so,...
