Runescape: The Gower Quest Honors Original Creators

Fifteen years ago, the Gower brothers (Andrew, Paul & Ian) created RuneScape. With today’s update, they, in a sense, return to the game in a new quest line called the “Gower Quest”. Players are looking into the mysterious disappearance of cabbage mages and provides a lot of “inside jokes” and vintage RuneScape nods.

Overwatch: When Games Inspire: The Overwatch Edition

Overwatch has exploded onto the scene and in a little under a month is already boasting 10million players. Even though Overwatch has only been out about a month fans have been hard at work creating ever since the game was first announced; which makes this a great time to start looking at some of the incredible creations out there.

Crowfall: PvPers Need PvEers

Last week Artcraft gave us a fiery heifer of an update leaving this embedded reporter speculating about the part that often gets tacked on to make launch, the end game! The next playable archetype the Minotaur Myrmidon. And last but not least J. Todd Coleman speaking exclusively with WorthPlaying about virtual worlds and the end game which got this writer wildly speculating about what Crowfall needs to keep us invested in that endgame.

General: E3 2016 – MXM Has a Unique Twist on a Tiring Concept

I need to confess, when NCsoft first showed me MXM last year I was pretty skeptical. While the version we played wasn’t localized, it was evident that NCsoft was trying to push into the free-to-play space of other MOBAs–which at the time seemed like an awful idea to me. But MXM isn’t a MOBA, it smartly borrows some of those ideas, a few more from action RPGs, and then even a sprinkling from MMOs, and turns that all into something that so far feels distinct and different.

WildStar: Group Up During the Nexus with Friends Event

Carbine has published a brief but interesting post on the Wildstar site that reveals how much more fun it is for players to roam the game in groups. During the ‘Nexus with Friends’ event, players who group up and complete multiplayer PvE events can earn double Renown. This boon to Renown gains can be earned in expeditions, adventures and dungeons.