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MMOs you’ve never heard of: Rogalia, Lazarus, Dead Maze, We Ride, and SOS
Welcome back to our intermittent series on MMOs and other multiplayer games you you’ve never heard of! Let's run down five more floating to the...
Shroud of the Avatar prepares for the arrival of Release 49
December is a time for sitting with friends and family, toasting to the new year, and most importantly, not doing any actual work. Thus,...
Shroud of the Avatar creates the quintessential cozy inn, changes up free trial offerings
When travelers wander in to Shroud of the Avatar's Release 49 later this week, they'll find that one watering hole looks much improved than...
Black Desert’s Pearl Abyss on feedback, cadence, and avoiding ‘aggressive’ business models
Pearl Abyss' Dae Il Kim sat for an interview with InvenGlobal earlier this fall that's just gone live, and while it might be a...
Interview: ArcheAge’s 4.0 Maelstrom launches December 13 with changes to lunagems, raid finder, and more
Batten down the hatches because a big storm hits tomorrow! ArcheAge's Maelstrom, with its cross-server navel arena, launches on December 13th. We got to...
TERA starts its technical console test on December 14
So, why haven't we gotten a lot of news about the TERA console version? Product manager Matt Denomme has put forth a new video...
EVE Evolved: Calling time on EVE Online’s five-year vision
When Andie "CCP Seagull" Nordgren walked onto the stage at EVE Fanfest 2013 and delivered her long-term vision for the future of EVE Online,...
Camelot Unchained fleshes out books, clothes, and the new Dragonfang scenario
They aren't dressing it up with "burndown" hoopla, but City State Entertainment's devs are in just that kind of check-it-off testing mode with Camelot...
LOTRO Legendarium: Fixing Lord of the Rings Online’s grouping problem
One of the quirks -- and frustrations -- of MMORPGs is that there never seems to be one game that truly has it all....
Chaos Theory: Exploring Secret World Legend’s anima allocation and other QoL improvements
Remember that big quality-of-life update that Secret World Legends launched mid-November? Chances are your quality of SWL life did indeed improve with a number...
Crowfall’s crafting looks more and more like Star Wars Galaxies’
Hey crafters. Let's talk Crowfall for a minute. ArtCraft Design Lead Thomas "Blixtev" Blair explains today in a new dev blog that crafting in...
Crowfall: ‘You don’t have to get into the stats to have a good time in this game’
Crowfall's J. Todd Coleman and Billy Garretsen are back for another ACE Q&A - you can pretty much mark the months by these things....
Saga of Lucimia lays the foundation for a holiday alpha test
Forget cookies with Santa and New Year countdowns: Saga of Lucimia hopes that you'll be too immersed in its next alpha test to care...
Black Desert lays out roadmap with new toon, region, class swapping, and weapon buffs
Over the weekend during South Korea's FESTA event, Pearl Abyss slipped out the news that Black Desert is due to get another character: Ran....
Niantic will reboot Ingress into Ingress Prime next year
Niantic is delivering a massive upgrade for Ingress next year. "Reboot" might even be a more appropriate term.
The company most people know for its...
Guild Wars 2 announces weapon contest winners, adds new in-game book interface
Remember that design-a-weapon contest that Guild Wars 2 was running last month? Well, it is all over now, and ArenaNet tallied up all of...
Destiny 2 acknowledges ‘betrayal’ over XP adjustments and studio silence
While stopping short of an actual apology in this week's Destiny 2 state of the game post, Bungie acknowledged that players have been greatly...
Hyperspace Beacon: First impressions of SWTOR’s Chiss flashpoint
Yesterday, Star Wars: The Old Republic launched update 5.6, which gave us many new quality-of-life changes to the game as well as our first...
Exclusive: Indie sandbox El Somni Quas state-of-the-game dev diary
It's been a hot minute since we heard from El Somni Quas, the indie sandbox from a Czech studio that cut its teeth on Ultima Online...
EVE Online patches in more alpha skills on December 5th
The next patch for EVE Online arrives on December 5th, and it's going to give Alpha players (or "free-to-play players" for those not down...
