Category: Columns

This week, Nightingale makes its annual appearance at The Game Awards, Broken Ranks finds a way to turn Christmas into a PvP event, and Christmas events are as popular as ugly sweaters and Dirty Santa gifts.

his week, we are seeing holiday events pop up, Mad World goes on a video posting frenzy, and Nightingale announces a major partnership.

In this week’s One Good Roll, Steven muses about how the gear grind has been a rather consistent pillar of endgame as far back as MMORPGs have been around, but he wonders, is this really the best end game MMORPG’s can offer?

This week, Reaper Games continues to cut support for Legends of Aria Classic, Profane updates its roadmap, and Dual Universe players are building to the moon.

In this week’s One Good Roll, but this week, Steven contemplates whether Indie games and AAA games should be scored on the same scale.

Around this time of year companies in the MMORPG world are typically holding welcome back weekends or free trials to entice new and old players alike into their game worlds during the holidays. But oftentimes when someone leaves an MMO, it’s for a reason. So what makes you decide to come back to give one a second chance?

Each week, we scour the internet for all things indie MMO-related, so you don’t have to. This week, Broken Ranks fights for an award, Zenith gets some untold legends, and Dual Universe may not be as good as we hoped. There’s plenty of other stuff going on as well, so let’s quit wasting time and get started with this week’s Indie MMO Spotlight.

This week, Zenith is set to give players a new starting experience, BitCraft shares more than just a picture, and Chimeraland continues to manager server density.

Is there any weight to the opinion that the free to play model will inevitably collapse, and be replaced by something else? Or will free to play be here to stay?