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The Repopulation adds diplomacy minigame with new patch
Wait, there are other ways to resolve conflict with in-game NPCs than to stab large holes in their torsos? The Repopulation seems to think...
Tree of Life is available on Steam
If you wake up in the morning and find yourself just unable to get enough early access sandbox titles to whet your appetite, you'll...
Neverwinter announces its next major update, Underdark
Neverwinter is heading into a dark place with its next major update. Darker than dark, even. Tenatively dubbed Neverwinter: Underdark, the next module will...
A guide to building and using your kingdom in Crowfall
Crowfall's individual campaign worlds are intended to be reset over time. That's by design; each world will flourish, then wither, then die. But the...
Perfect Ten: How to find the right MMO for you
A common question that I see posited around forums and Reddit is, "What MMO should I play?" If there is a more loaded question...
ArcheAge releases the Dread Prophecies update
Ghost ships? An aggravated kraken? Just what in Sam Hill is going on in ArcheAge these days, anyway?
Well, the fantasy sandpark has released one of...
ArcheAge’s Freedich housing disappears tomorrow
Do you play ArcheAge? Do you own land on Freedich Isle? If so, you'll want clear out all your chests, furniture, and crested items...
The Game Archaeologist: What Star Wars Galaxies life was like before the NGE
A decade after Star Wars Galaxies' "New Game Enhancements" hit the game, controversy, grumbling, and revelations still pop up about the notorious decision to...
GTA Online: All the open world feels, none of the MMO grind
Any minute now I'm going to log out of Grand Theft Auto Online so I can finish this not-a-review. Seriously, I've played this game...
Koster on Star Wars Galaxies’ combat and social connectivity ‘glue’
MMO designer Raph Koster is back with yet another post-mortem on Star Wars Galaxies, this one the second part of his "living society" discussion. Get...
LOTRO Legendarium: Why LOTRO needs a progression server
At some point this year -- Turbine isn't saying when, yet -- Lord of the Rings Online will be making an effort to consolidate...
El Somni Quas draws upon classic Ultima Online for an old-school MMO experience
It's interesting to see how players who have grown up under the influence of certain MMOs are now making their own games drawing from...
The Daily Grind: What promised yet undelivered feature sticks in your craw?
There are few things more annoying than a developer promoting an upcoming feature or change and then never delivering on it. Four expansions later,...
Lost Continent: Looking ahead to ArcheAge’s Dread Prophecies patch
Did you miss the latest ArcheAge livestream featuring the Trion dev team? It was a biggun, and it contained quite a lot of information relative to the...
Preview RIFT’s player dimensions made with the Anywhere key
Player housing sometimes is difficult to get a handle on. When given an infinite canvas, some players don't know what to do with all...
The Repopulation’s next build to feature underground cities, UI revamp, and more
The Repopulation's dev team has finished the quality assurance process on the game's 15.2.1 build. Why should you care? Well, because it adds some nifty...
Landmark plans prop palette patch
Landmark's big patch for this week -- which is tentatively scheduled for Thursday -- will be making a significant change to how players deal...
Factions: Origins of Malu’s early access launch and interview
Origins of Malu has certainly had a long, bumpy road to launch. Showing up on our radar back in August 2011, this title has...
Own, expand, and develop your own piece of Crowfall’s universe
While most of Crowfall's playable area will be in temporary PvP campaign worlds, there will be a bastion of permanence in individual player housing...
Massively Overthinking: Making MMOs ‘sticky’ without vertical progression
Today's Massively Overthinking question comes to us from Kickstarter backer Jersey C, who asks,
If you were asked to design an MMORPG without vertical progression...