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Shroud of the Avatar’s 56th update is live, with a big PvP update and bug clean-up
Shroud of the Avatar's 56th release is upon us, having been pushed live successfully yesterday. A big chunk of the update is necessary but...
The Survivalist: Hands-on with survival MMO Rend’s closed alpha
It's been nearly a year since I met with Frostkeep Studios at PAX West and got an early first-hand look at Rend, the three-faction...
Massively Overthinking: Random acts of MMORPG kindness
Last week, down in the comments of an innocuous post about gamers being nice in Fortnite, a couple of MOP commenters requested a column...
City of Heroes emulator SEGS cranks up powersets
The Super Entity Game Server (SEGS) continues to push forward with its version to bring a full-featured open source emulator of City of Heroes...
Overwatch’s Wrecking Ball is already kicking ass and taking names
When my husband logged off Overwatch last night, he put down his headset and said, "Yeah, Wrecking Ball is amazing, and I can't wait...
Guild Wars 2’s Festival of the Four Winds has launched after four years asleep
Guild Wars 2 is going old school today with the return of the Festival of the Four Winds, a festival players haven't seen in...
Time to go shopping and make friends in retro-sandbox Staxel’s latest update
Ah heck, as I started writing this post, I remembered I defied my "no early access" rule and bought this game on the Steam...
Thespian deer and bunny invasions come standard in Project Gorgon
The creators of Project Gorgon are a neverending fount of interesting ideas and unique systems -- so much so, in fact, that some days...
This week’s Shroud of the Avatar patch includes an R2-D2 lookalike in homage to Star Wars
Shroud of the Avatar's release 56 is coming on Thursday, which means Portalarium's latest newsletter includes recaps of some of the content the team's...
The Cycle is a PvEvP ‘shooter with a twist’ that bucks the battle royale trend
Berlin-based studio YAGER recently took the wraps off The Cycle, a "first-person shooter with a twist" that somehow looks a lot like a survival...
One Shots: Party animals
Apologies for the disruption in the normal One Shots schedule over the past couple of weeks, but we're back and freakishly abnormal! Everyone behave...
Wizard101’s main city gets a magical makeover
When you've got magic on your side, renovation on a grand scale should be a snap, right? It was probably a little more difficult...
Fractured’s player city system is the evolution of Star Wars Galaxies
MMORPG sandbox Fractured has five days to secure another 16K to make its $116K Kickstarter goal - and it just broke the $100K barrier...
Digital Extremes’ retro permadeath MMO Survived By has entered closed beta
Digital Extremes has officially launched Survived By into closed beta today, accompanied by a hefty patch including a new 10-man raid, hardmode dungeons, UI...
Lawsuit continues against Trion Worlds and ArcheAge’s 10% discount snafu
Three years in, a player-led lawsuit against Trion Worlds concerning false advertising and lockboxes in ArcheAge continues to bounce around the California court system.
The...
Elder Scrolls Online’s Wolfhunter boasts a hunting grounds dungeon that’s fantastically creepy
The Elder Scrolls Online is really upping its creepy factor in Wolfhunter, if its latest preview of Hircine's Hunting Grounds is any indication. (Seriously,...
Guild Wars 2 is bringing back the Festival of the Four Winds next week – it’s the next best thing to Cantha
You know what Guild Wars 2 could use right about now? How about a festival? Yeah! How about the return of a festival that's...
Shroud of the Avatar’s newsletter covers the mysterious comet and player-created dungeon tools
Strange sights abound in Shroud of the Avatar right now. "Astronomers across New Britannia have noted that the approaching comet has agitated the creatures...
Final Fantasy XIV plans its next major patch for September with a crossover in August
Ready to hunt monsters in Final Fantasy XIV? Not just in general, but as part of a crossover with Monster Hunter World? You'll get...
Today in why we can’t have nice things: Roblox players were banned after ‘raping’ little girl’s avatar
Please note, this article covers a sensitive subject - please skip it if the title is already crunching up your stomach.
If you've got kids,...