piracy
Atlas signals an incoming official server wipe along with a major milestone update
Hope you didn't get too comfortable in Atlas' early access, because these pirates are getting ready to swab the decks clean. And by that...
Fortnite launches season 8, new battle pass, Save the World AMA – and contends with Apex Legends
Fortnite's season 8 is live today with a new battle pass to buy and a very Apex Legends-style feature: a ping system. I'm trying...
Reverse Engineering: Predicting Fortnite’s earthquakes… with science!
It looks like things are literally shaking up in Fortnite. We are currently tracking a series of changes coming to the game leading up...
Pirate TV: Ubisoft is making a Skull and Bones series
While it may be late to the pirate party, Skull and Bones is going to haul more than treasure and fire more than cannons...
Battle Bards Episode 138: Wild wild westerns
Boy howdy, is it time for another highfalutin Battle Bards episode? Shucks, looks like! In this week’s show, the trio saddle up for a...
EVE Evolved: How working with NPCs could improve EVE Online
While EVE Online is primarily based around the conflicts that arise between groups of players competing in the same virtual universe, the New Eden...
Blackwake brings an indie pirate experience to your computer screen
Between last year's Sea of Thieves and this year's upcoming Skull and Bones, is there any room left in the pirate naval combat genre?...
The first of Ultima Online’s planned 2019 high seas updates has hit the test server
At the start of the new year, Ultima Online did its level best to disrupt my plans to take a break from subbing it...
Sea of Thieves kicks off the Friends Play Free event today
The old aphorism is that there's no honor among thieves. But there can be honor, companionship, and even just good old-fashioned friendship in Sea of Thieves....
The Stream Team: Checking Outpost Zero’s base after a break
Massively OP's MJ has been traveling and out of town for work, so she hasn't really had a chance to check in on her...
Sea of Thieves tackles crossplay and toxicity in latest dev update
You might be a pirate in Sea of Thieves, but that doesn't excuse any dastardly behavior shown to other players. According to this week's...
Atlas plans to make the climb to the top less arduous for players
The development team behind Atlas is happy with the influence that hardcore players and large companies have upon the game. That's a core part of...
The Survivalist: Outpost Zero improvements have really increased its fun factor
Sitting back and loosely following the development of an early access game, then hopping in here and there to check out a score of...
Get a mobile EVE-like experience with Stellar Invictus
While we are still waiting on the release of EVE Echoes, the mobile version of CCP's scifi sandbox, there is another option for those...
Sea of Thieves is taking aim at combat adjustments in its next update
Combat on the high seas is about to get a bit more refined, according to Sea of Thieves Executive Producer Joe Neate in the...
The MOP Up: WildStar suffers another indignity
Miss WildStar? Well at least there's the soundtrack to listen to on various sites, right? Nope! Apparently NCsoft pulled the acclaimed score from sites...
Sea of Thieves shrinks its install size, bans a ‘small number’ of cheaters
With many months' worth of updates and patches, Sea of Thieves has seen bloat happen in one undesirable locale: its game installer. Ergo, Rare...
ArcheAge rolls out update 5.1 as players call ‘bait-and-switch’ over normalized mounts
As promised, Gamigo pushed out update 5.1 for ArcheAge yesterday, complete with its hero system revamp, tweaks for pirates, the Abyssal Library do-over, and...
Atlas teases dev livestream and the guillotine, announces imminent devkit release
Avast, ahoy, and all that jazz, Atlas players: It's time for another entry of the Captain's Log, in which the folks at Studio Wildcard...
ArcheAge 5.1 launches Wednesday with revamps for the Abyssal Library and hero system
Making good on its promise of "new content on a regular basis" for the games it acquired when it bought Trion Worlds, Gamigo is...
