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EVE Online’s Quadrant 3: Gateway launches today, opening the doors for newbie onboarding
Happy patch day, EVE Online: Gateway has arrived. Gateway is basically the third "quadrant" patch of the year, and it's all about the newbies...
Star Wars The Old Republic talks system design as a new KOTOR remake is unveiled
The gameplay loops that keep players chasing goals in Star Wars: The Old Republic is all powered by system design, which is the topic...
The Soapbox: Single-player open worlds will never equal those of MMORPGs
These days it seems like sprawling open worlds are becoming an ever more popular choice for single-player games, from the newer Assassin's Creed titles...
Elite Dangerous pushes back Odyssey Update 7’s release to address a community goal bug
Community goals are a nice way to get some big chunks of space cash and possibly a unique spaceship component, but there's been an...
Destiny 2 releases its revamped Trials of Osiris, touts anti-cheat progress, and recounts seven years of updates
It's time once more to face the Trials. This past Friday saw Destiny 2 bring back the Trials of Osiris, this time with a...
One Shots: En garde!
It's not always the type of sword but how you hold it, the masters say. And if you've got the spirit of a duelist...
Star Citizen offers a rundown of new healing, injury, and death mechanics arriving in alpha 3.15
CIG has been talking up the proposed changes to how healing, injury, and death work in Star Citizen for a while, from Chris Roberts'...
So is The Matrix Resurrections making you want a Matrix Online resurrection?
Just two years ago, we all learned that the Matrix movie franchise was getting another entry, complete with one of the original directors and...
Massively Overthinking: Overcoming barriers-to-exit in MMOs
About a thousand years ago, I wrote an article on Old Massively called "but I already have that game" about barriers-to-exit: the difficulty of...
Warframe’s latest update adds the Prime version of Nidus and brings back Operation: Plague Star
Has it already been a week since we were all alerted to the arrival of Warframe's latest update? My how time does fly. Sure...
Star Citizen AMA outlines plans for future dynamic events and discusses lessons currently being learned
CIG decided to kick off an AMA with its players that focused on dynamic events in Star Citizen. A lot of the answers were...
PlanetSide 2’s inbound patch makes map adjustments for low and high population situations
PlanetSide 2 has a big PTS patch in store for later this week, Daybreak announced just ahead of the long weekend. While the new...
EVE Online is running another ‘no-downtime’ experiment this week
Shall we play a game? EVE Online's Senior Live Director Erlendur S. Þorsteinsson aka CCP Explorer would like you to play forever. OK, maybe...
AA indie sandbox MMO Galaxies of Eden discusses classic vs. action combat switch and skill balancing
A month ago, we covered a new sandbox MMORPG under development by MIR Cybernetics Corporation: Galaxies of Eden. It's absurdly ambitious, with an alpha...
Star Citizen backer reports CIG to the UK Advertising Standards Agency over ship concept sales
Are you among those fed up that Star Citizen can sell concept ships -- internet spaceships that haven't even materialized in the game yet...
Crowfall studio ArtCraft has apparently suffered a round of layoffs
We've got some bad news for fans of Crowfall: It appears that the team behind the game, ArtCraft, is going through some layoffs. The news...
The Daily Grind: What’s the worst type of minigame in MMOs?
Today's Daily Grind was inspired by Roger over at Contains Moderate Peril, who penned a fun piece on minigames a few weeks back. Oh,...
Battle Bards Episode 200: Battle Bards Bicentennial!
Can you believe it? The Battle Bards have hit 200 amazing episodes! Join Steff, Syl, and Syp as they take a victory lap around...
The Game Archaeologist: SOE’s many MMO spin-off digital card games
One thing that I deeply admired about old Sony Online Entertainment was that it strove to experiment, innovate, and take risks. Sometimes those special...
Warframe brings back the Plague Star event and introduces Nidus Prime on September 8
Much of this isn't exactly news if you watched the last devstream for Warframe, but just so players are aware, this coming Wednesday, September...
