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Star Citizen plans to share internal timelines, justifies ship sales as not P2W
Star Citizen's latest newsletter does three things: celebrates the fourth anniversary of the game's Kickstarter, explains why you still don't know when the game...
Enter the Breach in Path of Exiles’ next league, launching December 2
If you've ever wanted to call out "Once more unto the Breach!" as a battle cry, Path of Exile offers you just that chance...
Black Death’s Providence update adds animal husbandry, treasure hunts, and better NPC AI
Indie survival sandbox The Black Death has a big patch out this week called Providence with a ton of new features and skills. Players...
The Division’s crying woman is no longer crying… or present
Before patch 1.4, The Division featured a crying woman in the Grindhouse. Why was she crying? Nobody knows, but considering that the game is...
Star Wars: The Old Republic provides backstory fiction for Knights of the Eternal Throne
Look, we don't want to spoil the ending of Star Wars: The Old Republic's last expansion story arc for you if you're still working...
EVE Online’s latest tool lets you simulate ship builds
One of the new tools that EVE Online has handed to new and experienced players with this week's Ascension expansion is simply called the...
The Daily Grind: Are you going back to RIFT for Starfall Prophecy?
After a briefly delayed beta event last month, RIFT's Starfall Prophecy expansion launched this week. RIFT is Trion Worlds' crown jewel, and this third expansion...
Massively Overthinking: The many ‘NGE’ moments across MMORPG history
Eleven years ago this week, the New Game Enhancements patch descended on Star Wars Galaxies, forever changing the trajectory of the game, SOE, and...
Path of Exile offers experimental 64-bit DirectX 11 client
Watch out: Path of Exile has split in twain! What has happened is that with this week's 2.4.2 patch, the MMOARPG has rolled out...
ELOA gets a do-over under new ownership
Elite Lord of Alliance might have been down, but it's not out -- not yet, at least.
Following the decision by Webzen to close down...
Shroud of the Avatar tackles combat and crafting in today’s 36th update
Shroud of the Avatar's Release 36 lands today, a little bit early because of next week's major holiday, Black Friday, which is preceded by...
Star Trek Online deploys fleets to consoles
While those playing Star Trek Online on consoles are a bit behind the game's PC client, that also means that they get updates a...
Perfect Ten: Messed-up aspects of MMORPGs we mindlessly accept
When we engage in the collective fantasy of playing MMORPGs, we accept certain structures and tropes that have been in place since the early...
Chronicles of Elyria overhauls its influence point system (again)
Chronicles of Elyria's most recent Kickstarter update is a bit of a screenshot dump, not that we're complaining. In addition to images of a...
MapleStory preps its ‘largest update in nearly a decade’ for December
MapleStory has been around for a long, long time, so when the game's designers say that they're preparing to unleash the "largest update in nearly...
Battle Bards Episode 86: World of Warcraft: Legion
With all of the unbridled love for World of Warcraft’s soundtrack on Battle Bards, historically, you know that we couldn’t let a new expansion...
Warframe explains the reasoning behind its new RNG mods
Seeing that its playerbase was getting into a rut with its choice of gear, Warframe's team decided to introduce a new type of mod...
Riders of Icarus celebrates Thanksgiving with events and a pet farm
An overabundance of food is a hallmark sign of Thanksgiving, but what about an overabundance of events? MMOs have not traditionally held many Turkey...
World of Warcraft datamining points to new WoW Token use in patch 7.1.5
Do you remember BlizzCon 2016? It was just a couple of weeks ago, surely you do. One of the topics on discussion was letting...
RIFT’s Starfall Prophecy expansion is live today with a brand-new trailer
Trion Worlds is throwing its hat into the expansion ring this week with today's launch of RIFT: Starfall Prophecy. The MMO's third expansion takes...