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Lost Skies recaps shipbuilding, sky bosses, and the damageability of everything in the game
Video game logic often dictates that if a tree falls on top of a house, that house will remain unfazed as the felled tree...
RuneScape opens the Daemonheim Archaeology site, Old School RuneScape readies a mobile UI beta
Sure, a location known as Daemonheim is probably a dangerous place for archaeologists to go sniffing around, but do you really think that will...
Kickstarted tiny MMO Book of Travels has launched its promised combat revamp
What is the best thing in Book of Travels? Is it to break your enemy, see him driven before you, and hear the lamentations...
Scars of Honor highlights visual progress on environments, weather effects, and models in June dev update
It's time for yet another monthly update from Scars of Honor, with developer Beast Burst Entertainment showcasing all of the visual update efforts made...
Wayfinder returns to Steam today with buy-to-play Echoes update and slick new animated feature
Airship Syndicate is putting forth all of the stops to call attention to the return of Wayfinder, as the action RPG has now shifted...
SGF 2024: Aloft is a cozy Ghibli-inspired PvE-centric survival sandbox in the sky
When I first heard about Aloft while planning for Summer Games Fest 2024, I figured it would just be a cute multiplayer survival game;...
The Quinfall offers a video overview of farming, animal husbandry, and building a personal plot
Sandbox MMORPG Quinfall has once more shared a narration-free video preview, this time offering interested fans a look at how to stake a claim...
LOTRO Legendarium: Is Lord of the Rings Online’s new birding hobby a flight of fancy?
My father-in-law is an obsessive birdwatcher. He took it up as a hobby a few years ago, and now he travels all over the...
Black Desert simplifies gathering and fishing on PC, brings a plant centaur boss fight to mobile
If you're all about those life skills in Black Desert on PC, or if you've never thought to try them out, then you're likely...
Final Fantasy XIV Dawntrail media tour: Hands-on with the Pictomancer and Viper
It's Stormblood all over again when it comes to Dawntrail because Final Fantasy XIV has once again handed us a new melee job and a...
Perfect Ten: 10 reasons World of Warcraft is pure cozy comfort
There's something weird and fun that happens in my brain around this time of year, which is that I start to get into a...
Choose My Adventure: Returning to Star Citizen (and fussing with tech)
It's been a long while since I got to hop into Star Citizen. Not for a lack of desire, but mostly for a lack...
Guild Wars 2 announces Janthir Wilds expansion – with player housing and raid – coming August 20
So who's up for a new Guild Wars 2 expansion? What if I told you Guild Wars 2 is about to get a real...
The Daily Grind: What part of MMO design seems much easier to MMO players than it really is?
A while back, I saw someone make an offhand comment about how to save New World. According to this commenter (no names, not dunking),...
Abyss Online studio Old World Labs seeks to hire more staff to help its flagging MMORPG
Last week, Abyss Online developer Old World Labs did the opposite of marketing its early access MMO, as it instead warned potential players away...
First Impressions: Corepunk’s MOBA-esque closed alpha was fun – with lots of room to grow
I've got a pretty good poker face, especially when nobody can see my face. So I've been pretty subtle about my excitement for Corepunk...
Past Fate adds ‘proper starting tutorials’ and makes a swamp zone ‘much more poisonous’
The swamps are swampier and the tutorials are more informative according to Past Fate, which continues its seemingly endless march through closed alpha with...
SMITE 2 enters into a second alpha weekend with two more gods and gameplay updates
Did you miss the last time SMITE 2 held a weekend alpha test? Fret not because there's a second alpha test happening right now,...
Massively Overthinking: Is tab targeting a problem in MMORPGs?
This past weekend, MMO designer Greg "Ghostcrawler" Street lobbed another bomb rather cavalierly into the MMORPG discourse, this one about tab targeting. And maybe...
Ship of Heroes talks raid preferences, its new raid UI, and its animation system overhaul
If you're following Ship of Heroes' Twitter or official website for updates, you won't find the latest news there, as Heroic Games has focused...
