user interface
PAX East 2018: Hands-on with the surprisingly solid combat of Ashes of Creation
This year's PAX East featured a lot of games early in their testing phase, but Ashes of Creation was one that had splurged for...
Star Citizen homes in on the mobiGlas, checks in with the UK team, and rolls back alpha 3.1.1
The Star Citizen team is still riding high on the launch of alpha 3.1 last weekend. The latest episode of Around the Verse checks...
Crowfall’s April Q&A focuses on quality of life improvements
The host of small improvements and tweaks that result in a better operating game client and a more enjoyable user experience can be just...
GDC 2018: Bridging and embedding cross-platform online communities
As this year's GDC coverage is winding down, I am finally coming to the topic I saved for last: community. MMOs are more than just...
Kritika Online starts testing Windhome
The next chapter of En Masse's Kritika Online is currently being run through its paces on the test server. The studio announced that it...
More Elder Scrolls Online players play High Elves than anything else, and other fun fourth-birthday stats
Let's just pile on some more events in The Elder Scrolls Online, shall we? This latest round is in honor of the game's fourth...
Shroud of the Avatar’s next update focuses on quests, combat, towns, and the LFG tool
Shroud of the Avatar's been out on Steam as a fully launched MMORPG for a week now, but the Portalarium devs aren't slowing down...
Global Chat: RIFT Prime numbers
RIFT's new Prime progression server certainly has recaptured or recruited many MMO bloggers to the game as of late, and it is all anyone...
Shroud of the Avatar lays out a roadmap for its next three updates
Now that Shroud of the Avatar is officially launched, what's next? For the team, the pace of development and updates won't change, with a...
GDC 2018: ARK Park’s Snail Games on VR, science, and the future of the franchise
As you may recall, I was given just a little time to hit up Snail Games' ARK Park a few days before I left for GDC...
Easter bunny headgear and a new survival mode keep Warframe lively
A new patch of fun odds and ends is roaming while in Warframe this week. There's plenty to check out here, too: new skins,...
Final Fantasy XI gets ready for an April update
If you were worried that the end of the fiscal year meant the end of Final Fantasy XI updates, we're happy to report that...
RuneScape learns Spring Fayre microtransaction lessons while Old School RuneScape tweaks mobile
It's springtime in regular flavor RuneScape, and that means the Spring Fayre has returned. You might remember the event from last year, when the...
Camelot Unchained rescues lost souls trapped underground
In one of the quieter weeks for Camelot Unchained as of late, the dev team nevertheless made progress toward this July's beta test.
Among the...
Dauntless continues to refine its user interface to balance form and function
As Dauntless pushes through beta and toward launch, the team is hard at work refining its user interface to strike that critical balance between...
Here’s how Star Citizen’s character customizer is coming along
Sea of Thieves' character customization got you down? Star Citizen won't be making that mistake. This week's Around the Verse details the game's roadmap...
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen’s devs take you spelunking in the pre-alpha
Here's a neat two-for-one deal for fans of Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen. The developers recently hosted a livestream in which they showed pre-alpha...
Hyperspace Beacon: So SWTOR’s Update 5.8 happened
Yesterday, Star Wars: The Old Republic launched the delayed Update 5.8: Command Authority to the servers. BioWare now offers its first complete operation since...
Secret World Legends conspires to improve server stability and the agent system
It may not be the start of the second season of story content, but today's Secret World Legends patch does deliver a few exciting...
Today’s SWTOR Update 5.8 brings Izax boss, conquest revamp, and returning companions
Hope you brought your industrial-sized ion cannon, fly boy, because that is one mother of a droid that's trying to stomp on your face....