Games Like: Fallout 4 . A few weeks back the world was on the brink of calamity, and, for just a brief moment, it seemed like entire civilizations might collapse. Office buildings were empty, phone lines were jammed with calls to explain why people were “too sick” to make it into work that day. Dishes w
League of Legends Snowdown: Riot Games Comes Bearing Gifts . The winter season is here! The air is crisp and cold and full of the sounds of sleigh bells jingling and Happy Elf Teemo being dismembered over, and over, and over again.It is truly a joyous time of year. For don’t all in the LoL community love to see new shiny skins being dropped down
League of Legends Lunar Revel Skins and 2016 Predictions . Just in time for the League of Legends Lunar Revel, three new skins have blasted onto the public beta environment, ready to be released some time in the next week. They will be 1350 Riot Points each and they are Legacy, so once they are gone they are GONE, and you won’t be able to buy
Wildstar Winterfest . Just in case there was ever any confusion, Christmas is 100% about pure consumerism. And Wildstar gets that, which is why this year’s Winterfest celebrates all the the faux-spirit and corporate-driven traditions that make you hate how much you love Christmas. So if you’ve got som
It's Frostfell Time in Everquest It’s that time of year again, and given the fact that it is, you’re probably sitting there scratching your head as you read this thinking ‘Everquest is still around?’ Yes, not only is Everquest still around, but it is alive and kicking with plenty of users. It’s definitely not a desolate was
The Secret World Christmas 2015 The Secret World launched its Christmas event for 2015 on Thursday, December 17th. The event will run approximately two and a half weeks; until January 4th, 2016. With Christmas hot on the heels of the release of Issue 13, there are no new Christmas missions available, but the developers hav
Top MMO Expansions of 2015 Here we are once again at the end of the year, and as per usual, throughout the course of 2015, game companies have been piling expansion packs on us that we naturally feel obligated to buy. Not only does it give us more content, it makes the game feel more complete. If you don’t buy the exp
Total War: Arena Beta Impressions It’s been a few weeks since I went to the Total War: Arena North America Event and met the developers and major YouTube stars for the Total War franchise. It was a great experience and that alone got me hooked into playing the game even more. I’ve been playing the game pretty religious
The Best Sandbox Games of 2015 This year has been an interesting one for online games and that goes double for sandbox MMOs. Considering how little attention the genre has received over the past few years, this niche genre is making a big comeback with plenty on the horizon to look forward to. But the horizon is still far
Top MMOs to look out for in 2016 With the year of 2015 soon coming to a closure, another year has gone by with new MMOs being released and old ones dying off in the distance. This year has shown that the MMO genre may be staggering if you look at the declining number of players in the bigger MMOs on the market. But whatever
A Bard's Tale: The Underappreciated MMO Class When you play an MMO, any MMO really, there are a few standard classes that you think of. You have the warrior, which is the go-to character for nearly any newbie, and then you have the casters who work their magic on the battlefield (and off it). Then of course there are the rangers and hun
20 Old MMORPGs that You Can Still Play . This year marks 20 years since Meridian 59 launched, the game that many people consider the first MMORPG. To celebrate 20 years of MMORPGs MMOGames will be making content all year looking at the history of the genre, highlights, and low points. To start that journey we’re looking at 20
MMOs Can Teach Us How to be Better Human Beings . There’s nothing new to report on the Alpha/Beta front this fine morning, so I find myself at a bit of a loose end as to what you should be reading in this week’s column. I think that, considering the amount of vitriol in my social media feeds of late, it might be an idea to recou
Kanpani Girls Giveaway . You’re the CEO of an all-girl mercenary company and there’s a fortune waiting to be made! Hire wandering heroes to fi ll up your ranks, recruit crack R&D teams to discover new weapons, and build a lethal corporate culture as you watch the profits roll in. You’ll need to plan your strateg
Guild Wars 2 Inventory Management Problems in Heart of Thorns . I am about to write five little words that I never thought I’d commit to text. Ready?
I’m tired of loot bags.
No one will ever accuse the new Heart of Thorns zones of being unrewarding. Players receive loot bags for participating in small local events, and then even more for taking part in t
Beta Data: December 4, 2015 . Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege
Where has this week gone? I’m not sure whether it’s the post-Thanksgiving/beginning of December atmosphere, or something else entirely but it feels like it has gone by in a flash and before we knew it, a bunch of new games had left Beta phases for officia
The End of the Golden Age of MOBAs . Despite all of the money being thrown around at flashy eSports events and conventions, this year has not been a good one for MOBAs behind the scenes. There has been an unprecedented number of closures and cutbacks during 2015 for such a new genre. Although online game closures are fairly com
[Ended] Neverwinter Owlbear Mount Giveaway . Neverwinter is a free-to-play action MMORPG that features fast-paced combat and epic dungeons. Players explore the vast city of Neverwinter and its surrounding countryside, learning the vivid history of the iconic city in the Forgotten Realms and battling its many enemies. Neverwinter is cur
Eorzean Evening Post: Diadem Loot Drama . One highlight of Final Fantasy XIV’s 3.1 patch was a new kind of content where Free Company airships take players out on exploratory missions. This is now better known as the Diadem.
Hearkening back to old school MMO content, the Diadem falls somewhere between grouped instanced dungeons and
Trove Interview With Andrew Krausnick Last month, Trion announced that a major update was coming to Trove. The next content patch for the voxel-based MMORPG is finally going to add PvP to the game. Initially, players will be able to take part in 5vs5 capture the flag battles, but as things progress new modes will be opened up. F
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