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Vague Patch Notes: MMO events are not for the high-level playerbase
Let me start with a statement of fact: I actually really like limited-time events in MMORPGs. I don't like them as a means of...
Microsoft strikes deal to put Activision games on NVIDIA GeForce Now
Nintendo was not the only video game corporation striking big deals with Microsoft yesterday: Microsoft is also teaming up with NVIDIA to put Activision...
Whatever happened to Creativerse? For starters, it went fully buy-to-play
It's been a terribly long time since we checked in on Creativerse, a cutesy multiplayer voxelbox that launched out of early access way back...
Old school pixel art MMORPG Tales of Yore adds more cosmetics, treasure maps, and procedural missions
Last month we cast a spotlight on Tales of Yore, a 2-D pixel art sandbox MMORPG that promised a "lightweight" but rich world full...
Fight or Kite: The Witcher card game GWENT checks off a lot of the right boxes – but too many of the wrong ones
Continuing on my journey to digital card game bliss, I chose to try out a game I had mentally filed as one of the...
Choose My Adventure: Returning to Destiny 2 was both bumpy and engaging
As we close out this random whim of mine to enter shooter MMOs for this month's Choose My Adventure, we clear out our list...
Gamigo is granting 15 free days of sub time to new and returning RIFT players
Has Gamigo abandoned RIFT? Given the lack of updates and massive layoffs and tiny population, you might think so, and we've certainly been wary...
Book of Travels fixes ‘weird’ lamp posts, invisible endeavors, and NPCs walking away from conversations
It's generally bad manners to walk away from someone while they're interacting with you, and that's doubly so for NPCs in Book of Travels...
Gamigo mandates that RIFT and Trove accounts be linked to Steam
If you're one of the faithful players who continue to adventure in RIFT and Trove under Gamigo's operational oversight, then you'll need to take...
Natural Selection 2 enters maintenance mode, Spellbreak returns as an official ‘community version’
We once more have to report on some semi-sunsets in our corner of the gaming sphere, although as the headline suggests, it's not all...
World of Tanks teases Japanese tank destroyers and mode overhauls in February roadmap
Tis the season for roadmaps, and now Wargaming's World of Tanks has released one - in video format, and apparently one that will include...
Massively Overthinking: What’s the ideal content cadence for an MMORPG in 2023?
Earlier this week, Guild Wars 2 revealed a major shake-up of its content delivery cadence. Studio ArenaNet suggested that the traditional living world cadence...
Team Fortress 2 promises ‘a full-on update-sized update’ for its next summer event
By all accounts, Team Fortress 2 is just another cog in Valve's wider automatic money printing machine, devoid of any of those pesky things...
Craftopia announces the terrain for its open world update is ‘almost finished’ in monthly dev report
Do you remember Craftopia? We certainly do. This distinctively odd survival sandbox, which first entered early access in 2020, has mostly been focused on...
Crossplatform multiplayer monster-hunting game Wild Hearts is live today
Electronic Arts officially leaps into the beast-hunting genre today with the release of KOEI TECMO's and Omega Force's Wild Hearts, live now on Steam,...
NCsoft Q4 2022: Guild Wars 2 had a great 2022, Throne & Liberty is still launching by summer
There's good news and bad news in the Q4 2022 and FY 2022 financial report, and the bad news might help explain why NCsoft...
Wild Terra 2 adds a lumberjack camp, updates carpentry, and makes combat adjustments
Lumberjacks have arrived to Wild Terra 2. How can you tell? Well, you can see them leap from tree to tree as they float...
Not So Massively: Voidtrain’s Next Fest demo leaves a terrible first impression
It's hard to find a survival game with an original premise these days. Dinosaurs? Done. Alien worlds? Done. Zombies? Done to (un)death. But how...
Survival MMO The Day Before struggles to secure trademark as YouTube bans its videos
Boy, we hope that you're not holding your breath for The Day Before because what was once Steam's most-anticipated title is a hot mess of...
The Stream Team: Taking another look at the current demo build of Ethyrial Echoes of Yore
MOP's Chris is once again having a swing at Ethyrial: Echoes of Yore thanks to the sandbox MMORPG's demo build that's currently part of...
