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Star Citizen’s January dev report details new vehicle work, player skills, and NPCs learning how grenades work
"When the pin is pulled, Mr. Grenade is not our friend," goes the classic bit of military humor, but it apparently took the enemy...
Star Citizen developers talk up alpha 3.18’s persistent entity streaming tech in latest roundtable
The run-up to alpha 3.18's arrival to the wider Star Citizen playerbase continues as the returning Star Citizen Live video series zeroes in on...
The Daily Grind: Do you want to see hygiene monitors in MMOs?
I'm talking about in-game character hygiene monitors, mind you. Presumably you can monitor your own real-life hygiene. I don't know, I'm not your mom.
We...
Star Citizen provides previews of alpha 3.19’s expanded derelicts and updated Lorville
While Star Citizen's alpha 3.18 build has been going through the public testing motions, the game's returning weekly video digest is taking a look...
Star Citizen’s player-run Daymar Rally wraps up, CIG preps Squadron 42 monthly report and returning videos
The Star Citizen community went racing at the end of last week with its 2023 edition of the Daymar Rally, a player-run rally racing...
Star Citizen’s Lunar New Year event brings back red envelopes, seasonal ship paint, and Siege of Orison
First off: Yes, the iconography in Star Citizen’s Lunar New Year event has a rooster pictured instead of a rabbit, but that’s because in...
Star Citizen recounts November and December updates to NPC behavior, ships, rendering, and locations
If you were wondering what Star Citizen was up to at the end of last year but were concerned because there weren't any monthly...
End-of-Year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures in 2023
Years ago, I did the first version of this yearly column in a one-off format in the middle of the year just because I...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and fears for MMOs in 2023
As 2022 drew to a close, we spent our Massively Overthinking roundtables discussing our predictions for 2023 as well as our goals. Now, we're...
End-of-Year Eleven: The top MMOs to watch in 2023
You know how some people like to push this narrative that "MMOs are dying?" If that were actually true, then my job to round...
Star Citizen heralds 2022 as a year of growth, touches on 3.18’s features and update plans for 2023
At the close of 2022, CIG's Chris Roberts put out another chairman's letter that looks back at Star Citizen's last year and ahead to...
Massively Overthinking: Our favorite MMO stories of 2022
It's tradition for us to pick out one big story or narrative arc that defined the year and slap it with an award label,...
Star Citizen’s Jumptown 2.0 holds a final round of events for the holidays ahead of its late January update
Care to spend the holiday season fighting other players in an illicit drug lab in space? Then you're set for Star Citizen's final hurrah...
Star Citizen recounts updates made in 2022 and summarizes features of alpha 3.18
It's just about that time of the year when folks recount 2022, and CIG has done just that in its latest video digest, which...
Massively Overthinking: Our MMO predictions for 2023
Nobody can see the future, but it sure is fun guessing, and that's exactly what we're going to do for (to?) the MMO genre...
Star Citizen outlines 3.18’s upcoming ship balancing changes, quality-of-life features, and Jumptown tweaks
While alpha 3.18 of Star Citizen has some bigger ticket items planned like more spaceship racetracks and a refactoring of cargo, there are a...
The MOP Up: ArcheAge attempts to end the year on a high note
This past week, ArcheAge's devs talked about the game's December plans and how the sandbox fantasy MMO is going to close out the year.
"We...
Star Citizen kicks off another Luminalia holiday event and discusses Pyro sound design
The holiday season is arriving to Star Citizen as this year's Luminalia event is back once more. bringing a few in-game and out-of-game goodies...
Star Citizen talks about refining its internal build creation process and the Polaris interior
Star Citizen is talking tools again! The first half of the game's weekly video digest is all about improving internal builds as the devs...
Star Citizen unveils the multi-purpose RSI Galaxy and the C8R Pisces space ambulance
As Star Citizen's IAE event rolls forward, this week's video digest is once again focused on spaceships, particularly new ship reveals in the form...
