The joke goes that there is no threat to Middle-earth that's so pressing and dire that a player can't call a time-out to put together a new outfit. Fashion wars are as strong in Lord of the Rings Online as they are in most other MMOs, and any ...
If Steam approval was a fighting game match, then Ship of Heroes was basically that player who keeps getting knocked out but requesting a rematch over and over until he secures a win. As we've been covering, Heroic Games has had to delay the launch ...
I'm of a divided mind when it comes to truly annoying computer characters in video games. On one hand, they can serve a storytelling purpose as a semi-antagonist and give the community a shared experience as we band together to hate them. On the ...
We will forgive anyone who reads this week's headline and feels a twitch of doubt about Camelot Unchained, but the fact remains that its studio says it's hoping to get to early access by the end of this year. That is really the plan in the wake of ...
Kickstarted MMORPG Loftia is having a great summer: First it announced full alignment with the game preservation movement, then it snagged another $5M in outside investment, paving the way from alpha to launch. Now it's just released its latest dev ...
Some days you just feel relatively daunted. You wake up, you brush your teeth, and you can tell you're downright daunted. But The Elder Scrolls Online is encouraging you to celebrate the days when you look at daunting and think "nah, none of that for ...
Over the past couple of weeks, CCP Games has been talking up the next open test for its MMOFPS mode EVE Vanguard, from general gameplay updates to lessons from its shuttered FPS title to activities that go beyond shooting other players in-game.
Nobody needs to be told at this point that Secret World Legends was not a successful relaunch. It also was not a very good game. In terms of absolute number of changes from the original The Secret World, it had several; in terms of actual ...
It's been a while since we heard much out of early access MMORPG The Quinfall, but that's largely owing to the fact that its latest patch was heavily delayed. The last big news we got from studio Vawraek Technology was back in July, when the team ...
Out of all of the factors that made World of Warcraft an instant juggernaut in 2004, the quest system was -- by far -- the most significant. It honed and refined the questing experience in RPGs and MMOs to the point that it was intuitive, addicting,