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Punching dinosaurs in ARK: Survival Evolved

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Five minutes after I logged into ARK: Survival Evolved, I punched a fish. A few moments later, I punched a tree. Shortly thereafter, I...

E3 2015: Torchlight Mobile is a new Torchlight, not Torch-lite

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When Perfect World and Runic Games announced last week that Torchlight was stretching out into the mobile market, it caught many folks quite unawares. (It's...

E3 2015: H1Z1 streamlines base building with construction boxes

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The dust hasn't even settled from H1Z1's recent base-building update, and already Producer Steve George has revealed to us at E3 2015 another great...

E3 2015: Guild Wars 2 Heart of Thorns prepurchase is live; we get the scoop on guild halls

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By now you are no doubt familiar with the guild halls arriving in Guild Wars 2's Heart of Thorns expansion. What you probably didn't expect is that...

Dota 2 Reborn revamps the game from the ground up

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Dota 2 is stockpiling its arsenal against the competition with the advent of a massive overhaul called Dota 2 Reborn. Dota 2 Reborn won't be changing...

Jacobs on destroying Camelot Unchained structures and more

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Mark Jacobs is back with a Friday afternoon update for Camelot Unchained. In it, he says that players will soon be able to destroy...

MMO Burnout: Sailing the seas of Windward

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Windward is an oddly endearing little duck that escaped my wandering game eye prior to the moment developer Tasharen Entertainment dangled an early access key...

Wargaming is rebooting Master of Orion

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How would you fancy a reimagined version of 4X classic Master of Orion? Wargaming is hoping you'll bite, as the massively successful World of...
A wreck of our ambition

The Repopulation tweaks combat and building in its latest patch

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Launch rushes onward toward The Repopulation like... some sort of extremely fast launch-related thing. The metaphor isn't perfect. Neither is the game's combat system,...

Tamriel Infinium: The pros and cons of Elder Scrolls Online’s console versions

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As of today, you can now play Elder Scrolls Online on your consoles as well as your PC. Finally, Xbox One and PlayStation 4 gamers can play...

PvE sandbox Villagers and Heroes is reborn tomorrow

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When I last checked in on indie PvE sandbox Villagers and Heroes a year ago, the Steam launch was busy rocking the game with dramatic...

The Game Archaeologist: The Matrix Online

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It's not every year that a movie comes along that captures the pop culture zeitgeist so powerfully and so quickly as The Matrix did....

Voxelbox Trove is officially launching on July 9

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This is it, Trove fans. The finish line of beta and the starting line for the official live game. Trion Worlds announced that Trove...

Aion’s Upheaval begins on June 17th

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At a time when players are leery of being nickle-and-dimed, Aion is releasing yet another completely free expansion. Also known as patch 4.8, Upheaval...

Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s Heart of Thorns beta

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My excitement for Guild Wars 2's first expansion has been no secret, so you can easily guess how much fun I had climbing the...

The Repopulation on expectations, SWG, and the Q4 launch

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When Above & Beyond Technologies announced that its sci-fi MMO The Repopulation will launch before the end of 2015, sandbox fans simultaneously pumped their fists...

A guide to Heroes of the Storm for MOBA newbies and MMORPG fans

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So you've heard about MOBAs by now, right? Maybe you tried League of Legends, or the idea behind DOTA 2 was too confusing to inspire a...

Not So Massively: Heroes of the Storm’s launch; Need for Speed’s online DRM

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Nintendo's quriky new online paint-battle game Splatoon officially launched this week to very positive reviews. Monster-battling game Moonrise entered early access and promises Pokémon-like...
Needs more space dragons.

EVE Online’s Carnyx update goes live on June 2nd

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Players excited for the Sovereignty overhaul coming to EVE Online need only wait a couple of days more before it rolls onto the live...

Otherland beefs up its clan and PvP feature set

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Progress on the revived Otherland project has been running quiet for most of this spring, but now that looks to change. Today, Drago Entertainment...

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