MMO Mechanics: 2016’s MMORPG mechanics in review
The holiday season is finally upon us: My decorations are resurrected from their dark corner of my storage closets once more, Jack Frost is...
Star Citizen begins testing 2.6 alpha, aims to release it on December 16
In this week's episode of Star Citizen Around the Verse, Sandi Gardiner is joined by Technical Director Sean Tracy to issue the latest big...
Check out a ton of footage of Lineage Eternal gameplay
Good news for Lineage Eternal fans who have eagerly waited for any news about the game: You have some videos to watch now. You've...
Black Desert’s whole New World is live today, boost server opens tomorrow
If you're a Black Desert fan just waking up and stumbling to the internet this morning, good news: The game is back online.
It's been...
Elder Scrolls Online rolls out lockboxes this week
I'm sure you're as tired of hearing about lockboxes as we are of writing about them, but here we are and it's still happening....
EverQuest Online Adventures revival project solicits aid
It's been well over four years since EverQuest Online Adventures was unplugged and its servers shut down, as SOE deemed the old hardware (PlayStation...
Richard Garriott donates skull to player tavern during Shroud of the Avatar telethon
If you follow Shroud of the Avatar, you already know that studio Portalarium does seasonal streamed fundraisers to drive pledges for the game. Yesterday's...
Conan Exiles answers questions about its upcoming early access launch
With Conan Exiles' early access launch just around the corner, you can better believe that the community has a mountain of questions about the...
Korean MMO from the ’90s returns to life
Have you ever heard of an MMO called Helbreath? Don't be ashamed if you haven't, as it never hit the big leagues and has...
Star Wars Galaxies players can ‘come home’ to a new NGE emulator
The underground rebels of the Star Wars Galaxies community continue to fight to keep the MMO alive any way that they can. One group...
ArcheAge accidentally implies that it’s a pay-to-win game
"Pay-to-win" is a really tricky term to nail down; everyone has different definitions of winning, and while the broad strokes of the concept are...
Space roguelike Lazarus kicks off persistent servers
It's the end of the world. Again and again and again.
Lazarus is an unusual space roguelike shooter in which players fly 2-D ships and...
H1Z1: Just Survive tests out quality-of-life update, conducts community survey
Could Daybreak be making good on its promise to give some love to H1Z1: Just Survive? It certainly seems so now that there's a...
Project Genom drops from Steam under opposing blackmail and infringement allegations
Project Genom has been pulled from Steam, but the why of it is still a bit hazy.
Russian Developer NeuronHaze has laid the blame at...
Elite Dangerous players accuse Frontier of ignoring combat exploit
If you thought that your politically divided family dinner table will be the most awkward situation this Thanksgiving week, then you need to haul...
Guild Wars 2 AMA covers lockboxes, old dungeons, and economy quirks
Last night, ArenaNet's Mike O'Brien and 16 other members of the Guild Wars 2 live team hopped on Reddit for an AMA coinciding with...
First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s A Crack in the Ice episode
ArenaNet gave us all word of a seasonably frosty addition to the Guild Wars 2Â Living World story last week: The third instalment of season...
Hearthstone retires ‘Heroes of Warcraft’ subtitle
Blizzard appears to be tinkering with its branding: Redditors noticed over the weekend that Hearthstone's official site has lost the "Heroes of Warcraft" subtitle...
Rumor: Marvel Heroes code points to a PlayStation port; Beast and Black Bolt on the way
It's easy to get carried away based on circumstantial evidence when speculating about the future. Players have been suspecting that Marvel Heroes might be...
Dark & Light is ‘not likely’ in November
Rumors spreading on Chinese Baidu Tieba (a bit like Reddit) that Dark & Light is already on Steam awaiting Valve review appear to have...