piracy
SWTOR initiates a pirate-laden PvP season as S5 Pirate’s Plunder begins
Star Wars has had its fair share of pirates and scoundrels over the years, and for 12 weeks this winter, SWTOR players are invited...
Skull and Bones hauls Season 1: Raging Tides to the surface
When you think about it, "Raging Tides" is an apt description of the unstable flow of Skull and Bones' gameplay these days. Ubisoft's pirate...
Did you like all that free No Man’s Sky? Have some more: It’s F2P again this weekend
It's wild to me that not everyone owns No Man's Sky already, given how cheap it gets on Steam sale and how much content...
Sea of Thieves – and season 12 – launches on the PlayStation5 on April 30
A week ago during Microsoft's Xbox podcast, we learned that multiple Xbox titles would be un-exclusived and set loose on the PS5 and/or Nintendo...
Skull and Bones’ first season arrives next week – here’s the trailer
Weathering a fierce barrage of mixed and negative reviews, Ubisoft's Skull and Bones is hoping to sail into more favorable waters next week when...
Skull & Bones offers free trial as its middling reviews tread water
Even though the swashbuckling era of Skull & Bones is finally among us after numerous delays doesn't mean that it's smooth sailing for Ubisoft's...
No Man’s Sky is temporarily free-to-play through Monday as Omega launches
If you already own No Man's Sky, then you're in for a treat today as the Omega update has launched for you. But if...
Sea of Thieves plans next community weekend and February updates in latest video
The news digest video series from Sea of Thieves is back with its first episode for this year, and in it fans are getting...
Age of Water outlines how to find fish and highlights a couple of NPC factions
Did you expect a game called Age of Water to not have fishing? If you did, then let Gaijin Entertainment and Three Whales Studio...
Working As Intended: A guide to City of Heroes Homecoming’s best player-crafted portal bases
A few years ago, I was wandering around in City of Heroes when someone advertised a cool base in chat. All I had to...
Skull & Bones’ soft launch is underway for preorder players ahead of next week’s formal release
Ubisoft's long, long delayed pirate "co-op pirate open world action RPG" MMO Skull & Bones has finally set sail with a soft launch into...
Skull & Bones’ free open beta begins February 7 – here’s the new trailer and season preview
Ubisoft is hyping up the free open beta for Skull and Bones, and we have to note right up front that while the devs...
Survival MMO Age of Water previews hostile NPC factions and boat construction
On Monday, we dropped a big interview with Gaijin-funded Three Whales Studio, which is aiming to launch its Waterworldish post-apoc oceanfaring survival MMO Age...
Interview: Survival MMO Age of Water on monetization, sandbox play, and the Q1 early access launch
Way back at the end of 2020, we first caught wind of a new sandbox called Age of Water: Developed by Three Whales Studio...
Sea of Thieves’ 11th season is live, shaking up the classic sailing gameplay loop
Sea of Thieves 11th season of play officially went live yesterday, bringing a major revamp to the core voyage game loop. "Rather than having to...
Old School RuneScape roadmap details new areas, revamped classic quests, and Sailing’s future
This past weekend saw Jagex host its 2024 Winter Summit event for Old School RuneScape, which dropped a ton of reveals for fans of...
Sea of Thieves goes deep on Season 11’s quality-of-life patch
The pirates are back from the holidays, bringing buried treasure features to Sea of Thieves with the upcoming Season 11 patch. To expound upon...
Ubisoft’s Echoes of History podcast focuses in on the historical figures of Skull and Bones’ setting
Ubisoft's upcoming Skull and Bones is inspired by and set in a time period widely known as the Golden Age of Piracy, specifically the...
Perfect Ten: The weirdest weapons from MMOs of yore
Swords. Staffs. Maces. Spears. Wands. Bows. Crossbows. Double-crossbows. Hammers. Wolverine claws. Daggers. Axes. Deadly? Yes. Fashionable? Not so much. A two-handed sword is so...
The Game Archaeologist’s ultimate MMO archives v7.0
Once again we put a wrap on another year of MMORPG news, opinions, and -- most pertinent to this column -- history. In a...
