Guild Wars 2 used client-side spyware to aid its latest purge of potential cheaters
ArenaNet's just gone on a purge of potential cheaters in Guild Wars 2.
"Yesterday we suspended 1,583 accounts for a period of 6 months," Gaile...
Star Citizen runs down ships and kicks off a free-fly weekend
On this week's Star Citizen Around the Verse, I can't decide whether Sandi Gardiner or Eric Kieron Davis has the cooler shirt, but it...
Boss Key mostly gives up on Lawbreakers, moves on to ‘passion project’
Long after players had tried and moved on from the gravity-defying Lawbreakers, its studio has conceded defeat.
Boss Key Productions put out a statement today...
ArcheAge players fear pay-to-win practices will infect new progression server
With ArcheAge's new progression fresh start server going live today, players are raising concerns that Trion Worlds has slipped in pay-to-win elements in its...
Sea of Thieves’ patch today mops up bugs and addresses respawn griefing
Still arr-ing and ahoy-matey-ing and avast-ye-ing in Sea of Thieves? Today's patch... well, it's a wee one. Rare says it's fixed a bunch of...
GDC 2018: Bridging and embedding cross-platform online communities
As this year's GDC coverage is winding down, I am finally coming to the topic I saved for last: community. MMOs are more than just...
City of Heroes emulator pumps out its first public release
Former City of Heroes players have plenty of options to try to fill the void of their favorite MMO. There's a chat shell that...
Dogma: Eternal Night goes silent as its community manager resigns
Dogma: Eternal Night has slipped into the shadows of silence -- and some fans are concerned.
As was pointed out on Reddit, the studio hasn't...
Black Desert players overload servers in mass protest over ongoing connection problems
Back in March, Kakao issued a round of compensation for Black Desert players in North America affected by service interruptions in what the company...
Amazon Game Studio’s Breakaway is officially dead
Last fall, we heard word that one of Amazon Game Studios' three announced online titles, Breakaway, was going into development hiatus. That didn't bode...
GDC 2018: Ready Player One Now, billion person gaming, and mitigating abuse
It's no surprise that Ready Player One was constantly being referenced at GDC 2018, especially in VR, AR, and MMO panels. It's not just because of...
RaiderZ plans on improving hit detection and map design with its relaunch
A game like RaiderZ with no targeting is highly reliant on its hit detection, but according to the latest release from the team behind...
GDC 2018: Exploring SpatialOS with Improbable CCO Bill Roper
SpatialOS: You've probably been seeing this name pop up more and more in the MMO sphere. Worlds Adrift, Mavericks, Fractured, Seed, MetaWorld, and Identity are just some of the titles we've...
The Elder Scrolls Online is including daily login rewards with the Summerset release
If you were sitting with rapt attention when The Elder Scrolls Online announced its next expansion, you probably caught a pretty thorough list of...
Guild Wars 2 honors dearly departed MMO blogger Zach ‘Ravious’ Best with in-game quest
Last October, we were devastated to report that MMO blogger Zach "Ravious" Best had passed away at the young age of 36, taken by...
Over 2,000,000 people have now registered accounts for Star Citizen
Star Citizen hit another milestone this week: It's reached 2,000,000 citizens. Accounts, specifically.
The game has been in production since before its Kickstarter launched almost...
Analysts predict that major publishers will pivot to counter (and catch up with) Fortnite
Epic's not even remotely a nobody in gaming, but it's still a surprise to find out that its runaway battle royale hit Fortnite actually...
Star Citizen brings back old ships for sale, asks backers to vote on alpha 3.2’s priority projects
Do you have too much money? Awesome. Star Citizen has some ideas for where you can spend it - say, on some new ships?...
Fortnite talks game modifications while players design forts and resell skins, all while crushing PUBG
There's a lot of stuff swirling around the Fortnite community of late, starting with adjustments to the game's Blitz mode to reduce how many...
Conan Exiles talks currencies, map rooms, and the armor rebalance
If you missed last week's Conan Exiles stream, you actually missed some good stuff. The big news centers on the economic system en route...
