user interface
Path of Exile previews the improvements to its item filter interface
Look... sometimes, improvements to Path of Exile take the form of giving you new ways to make things explode with lightning if you so much...
Torchlight III’s latest alpha update focuses on achievements, interface, and polish
The jury is still out on Torchlight III - how MMOsy it'll be in the end, and whether people will like it in spite...
Once again, Final Fantasy XIV is wildly improving its screenshot feature
At this point Final Fantasy XIV already has an enormously powerful tool for taking screenshots built into the game via the /gpose feature. You...
The MOP Up: Outlaws of the Old West wipes its servers
The survival sandbox that brought you Bigfoot (for some reason) is now triggering a region-wide apocalypse. OK, it's just a server wipe for Outlaws...
Pantheon promises Faerthale gameplay look ‘soon’
Due to the passing of Brad McQuaid, the future of Pantheon may feel uncertain to some players who were hoping that this PvE MMO...
Book of Travels plans beta for late spring, early access in October
We had two games tie for our "most anticipated" award in 2019, but since of them was demoted to merely multiplayer with offline components...
Wisdom of Nym: Final Fantasy XIV has no addons and doesn’t seem to want them
So long ago I can't remember when, interviews with Naoki Yoshida had him talking about Final Fantasy XIV getting addon functionality. To his credit (as...
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen shares the Living Codex UI, patch notes, and the Murk
The most recent livestream from Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen offered a couple of looks behind the curtain on some of the work being...
Ashes of Creation shows off alpha progress and a four-winged falcon
Intrepid Studios, the creative force behind the fantasy MMO Ashes of Creation, is taking bold strides forward in communication this year. Following its 2020...
The MOP Up: Dofus gives its 2020 roadmap
After a wild 15th year anniversary, Dofus is prepared to crank out a great 2020. The game's roadmap outlined the upcoming year (brought to...
Path of Exile’s update 3.9.2C makes additional improvements to Metamorphosis and Conquerors
Grinding Gear Games continues to tweak the Conquerors of the Atlas and Metamorphosis League of Path of Exile. The next series of adjustments are...
Why I Play: Is Star Trek Online worth playing in 2020?
Star Trek Online is a hard game to get into. When I first tried it early in my MMO career, I hated it and...
Here’s how Crowfall’s spellbook and passive skills are changing in the February revamp
Crowfall is back this week with another new dev diary, this one building on the UI changes coming in February (as detailed previously) with...
Dungeons and Dragons Online’s 2020 roadmap includes Shifter race and Feywild expansion
What do you want in your Dungeons and Dragons Online this year? Whether it be a new permadeath server, an expansion pack, a modern...
City of Titans makes a small but significant change to the Avatar Builder UI
What difference can a slider bar possibly make? A pretty good one in the case of City of Titans, which showed off a tweak...
Global Chat: Why player representation in games matters
The recent flap over Escape from Tarkov's public pronouncement of "no icky girls" (my paraphrase) as playable characters in its game elicited more than...
Crowfall’s UI is getting less survival-y and more MMO-y with February’s test patch
Call me weird, but user interfaces in games are among my favorite things to dig into, and Crowfall's has been of particular interest to...
Choose My Adventure: The juggling act of Black Desert Mobile’s many advancement systems
Last week’s edition of Choose My Adventure had me genuinely impressed by how much stuff I had to manage in Black Desert Mobile, so...
Checking in on long-running Vendetta Online and the expansion that didn’t happen
It's been a hot minute since we checked in on Vendetta Online - maybe a long enough hot minute that nobody even says hot...
Warframe talks about recent PC updates to improve the Railjack experience
Yep, Warframe is still very much about its space combat-minded Railjack content, specifically fixing and adjusting said content based on player feedback. The latest...
