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E3 2018: Well-earned hype for Rend’s pets, construction, modding, and PvPvE
When I met Frostkeep Studios' CEO Jeremy Wood and crew at GDC earlier this year, I walked away impressed. I finally felt like I...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online Gamma Vanguard Starter Pack on PC from PWE and MOP
Victory is Life is officially live in Star Trek Online just in time for E3, harkening back to the much-loved run of Deep Space Nine.
"Star Trek...
Chronicles of Elyria makes an unholy fusion of bear and otter, shows off ship designs
Cute? Terrifying? Both at the same time? Chronicles of Elyria continues to experiment with mad science and interspecies breeding by creating an "otterbear" for...
Hands-on: The Jurassic World Alive ARG shows promise, but not for MMO fans
Ludia's Jurassic World Alive isn't being marketed as an MMO, but it is an augmented reality game that involves roaming in the real world for virtual...
Star Citizen talks legacy armor and science gameplay
Strap on some legacy armor and check out the spiffy new helmet HUDs in Star Citizen, because this week's Around the Verse episode is...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG would you want to ‘live’ in if you had to live there forever?
MOP reader Oleg suggested today's Daily Grind in the bowels of the mystified comments under our piece on Entropia Universe on Wednesday. In a...
Entropia Universe studio wants to let us live on forever inside an MMO – literally
If you're a fan of Altered Carbon or Westworld, you're going to love what MindArk says it's working on: The Entropia Universe studio aims...
Neocron begins testing its next patch features
Long-running science-fiction MMORPG Neocron is revving up for another patch cycle, as the team announced this past week that it has begun to test...
Unpacking the Star Trek mission crate (with Star Trek Online)
When it arrived, my administrative assistant in my day job -- who just so happens to be a die-hard Star Trek fan -- brought...
Enter to win a Star Trek Online Deep Space Nine starship on PC from PWE and MOP
Are you hyped for Deep Space Nine in Star Trek Online? Victory is Life is hitting PC in June, complete with a journey to the...
The Daily Grind: Which MMORPG features the most ‘hostile design’?
Last week, the Extra Credits crew did a feature on hostile architecture aka unpleasant design - a way of papering over a problem in...
The Daily Grind: How much MMO game info should be hidden from the players?
A blog post on The Psychology of Video Games blog a few weeks ago seems relevant to our interests: It explores the "pleasure paradox," which...
EVE Fanfest 2018: CCP Games has big plans for data collection and machine learning
Every day in the sandbox of New Eden, several hundred thousand EVE Online players perform millions of unseen actions. Every item manufactured, module activated,...
PAX East 2018: An interview with the big griffon statue
Everyone knows that the various people portraying characters at PAX East are just there to portray a character. That's not who they really are....
Noted statistician blasts 2013 paper that links aggression and video games
Last month, as part of our ongoing dialogue about video games and violence, we covered a brand-new paper that found that playing video games...
Choose My Adventure: Warframe in review
It's funny how presentation problems can have such a huge impact on the same product.
Warframe, as a game, is almost crippled by its lack...
GDC 2018: Games can help humanity, be profitable, and get support from gamers
Games alone won't make the world better. They won't even make gamers better. We publish some articles that certainly seem pretty pro-games, but we're...
World of Warcraft’s first 3-D level designer is Kickstarting a massive behind-the-scenes book, and it’s already written
The Ancient Gaming Noob himself tipped us off today to a bizarre but intriguing Kickstarter that should appeal to that cross-section of our audience...
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...
GDC 2018: ARK Park’s Snail Games on VR, science, and the future of the franchise
As you may recall, I was given just a little time to hit up Snail Games' ARK Park a few days before I left for GDC...
