Now that the cat is out of the bag and Amazon is promoting New World, there’s been a renewed interest in the community with this PvP sandbox. When will alpha happen? What will this game shape up to be? Will it become so hardcore PvP that only the most savage of wolves will partake in its offerings? We’re going to...
When Dungeons & Dragons Online converted to a free-to-play business model, it was back when I was first working as a writer in the industry, and it was a pretty big deal. And let’s be real here, that conversion is a big part of why that game is still running right now. Nor is it alone in that field; I...
When you sit down to make a list of the greatest heroes that humanity has ever known, obviously the Battle Bards will top that list. So who better to comment on the music to the sadly neglected superhero MMO Champions Online than they? The trio wiggle into their ill-fitting tights and see if they can make sense of this off-kilter...
If there are some objectives in Final Fantasy XI you still need to get done solo, you might want to wait just a little longer until September 11th. That’s when the game is kicking off a bonus campaign that includes a boost of Alter Egos with 50% extra HP and MP along with improved status resistance, so your solo companions...
Get ready to have your world(s) turned upside-down come September because that’s when Worlds Adrift is going to push out a major content patch while wiping and merging the servers in the process. “The large, PVE feature heavy update will bring many new things including the Haven (previously known as Tier 0) and a new map, which Malford is currently...
Gamescom continues to kick butt and take names – 370,000 of them, in fact. That’s how many people showed up in Cologne to attend Europe’s biggest gaming event of the year. As GIbiz notes, that’s a record for the event. In fact, the number of people descending on the Koelnmesse has actually become a bit of a problem; apparently, even...
Console players, your wait is over: The Elder Scrolls Online’s Wolfhunter DLC has officially launched for you this week. As we noted when PC fans got the goods, the base patch rolls out to everyone freely, while the DLC comes with a fee, unless you’re subbed, in which case you can jump right in. Expect the werewolf-themed dungeon content in the DLC,...
It’s another anniversary for Final Fantasy XIV, and that means many components to the annual anniversary celebration, including a 14-hour long broadcast starring Naoki Yoshida. The whole thing kicks off on August 31st at 11:00 p.m. EDT, followed immediately by an introduction of team members and the next Letter from the Producer LIVE stream covering the upcoming patch 4.4. From...
So here’s a new acronym for ya: DSSGLAPVU, a “deep space survival game leveraging a persistent virtual universe.” It’s gotta hurt coming up with these just to avoid calling something an MMO, yeah? That’s the term 8 Circuit Studios is using for its hybrid MMO shooter Project Genesis and its “characters that live forever.” Also something something cryptocurrency. “8 Circuit...
If you have yet to experience the conclusion to the traitor storyline from the latest story update to Star Wars: The Old Republic and you wish to remain unsullied by the twists and turns, then you will want to turn back now because we are going to be diving into spoiler territory here. Here we go… three… two… one… Darth...