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Albion Online is so popular it had to add emergency teleporters to its main hub
People are playing Albion Online, which is a good thing for the game. However, it’s less good when Caerleon has more than a thousand people trying to get in it, since that’s the point at which no one...
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The Daily Grind: Do you like being lost in MMOs?
In Final Fantasy XI, my first MMO, maps were few and far between, often blindingly unclear, and offered as many opportunities to be hopelessly lost as they did for finding your way. Pretty much...
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Old School RuneScape is getting a new exclusive area, Fossil Island
It seems just the slightest bit off to call an area in Old School RuneScape Fossil Island, doesn’t it? Like an insult that isn’t meant as one. But it’s also an exclusive area for the old variant on...
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Wizard101 sends players to adventure at the heart of the Spiral with part one...
At the center of the Spiral in Wizard101 sits Empyrea, which was made to keep the Chaos Heart safe. It accomplishes that goal by, well, keeping pretty much everyone out. But player characters are...
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Pantheon shows off the process of making a city with its latest video
If you wanted to catch the newest Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen stream live, we’re sorry to inform you that you’re too late. It already happened. But luckily, you can watch the archived video down...
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Valiance Online previews its maps as it hunts down bugs
Hunting down bugs in a video game is not the same as hunting down enemies. That’s true even if the bug is a severe one, like the one that Valiance Online is currently trying to fix up wherein...
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Final Fantasy XIV releases the patch notes for patch 4.2: Rise of a New Sun
Calm down, Final Fantasy XIV fans; the actual patch doesn’t release until Tuesday next week. But the patch notes are available right now, covering everything you’ll get with this particular update....
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Black Desert players take their first peek at the game’s next region, Drieghan
Yes, players have finally gotten a sneak peek at the next new land arriving to Black Desert, a vast and mountainous region to the south of the existing map. The bad news is that the page offering that...
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Dark and Light offers a video tour of the Mistvane Shrine
It’s funny how something as little as a name change can make a big difference. Dark and Light has been talking a lot about the Air temple, which is a rather generic name; however, the new video tour...
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Star Trek Online previews the rebuilt Deep Space Nine for the console launch...
If you were going to ask someone to identify the most iconic starbases in Star Trek Online, there’s really not much contest. Sure, Earth Spacedock is the “central” hub for most new players, but Deep...
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The Daily Grind: Where are the spots you most identify with in MMOs?
It’s going to be most relevant next week, but honestly I’m not even a little bit sad at the thought of Darnassus burning in World of Warcraft. Seriously. I’ve hated that city and the tree it’s sitting...
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The Daily Grind: What MMO area do you find most annoying to navigate?
I’d like to thank Final Fantasy XI for having some of the most obnoxious areas in any MMO to navigate ever. Maps that are difficult to read? Holes that you can fall through into lower regions? Paths...
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Aion shows off the new area of Lakrum arriving in Awakened Legacy
The next major adventure in Aion will bring players to Lakrum, a heretofore undiscovered land that also happens to be hosting sites of great power. Case in point, the fortress at the north end of the...
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The Daily Grind: Are there any zones in MMOs you’d like to call home?
My wife has long had an affection for Nagrand in World of Warcraft, and that makes sense to me. The gentle rolling terrain looks like the sort of place that would be a delight to live, at once wide...
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