Category: MMORPGs
Once, our stories celebrated women—truly celebrated them. They were radiant, noble, feminine. Men admired them, longed for them, and were called to rise in their presence. In fantasy, cinema, and …
The recent release of Oblivion Remastered has reignited the controversy around the replacement of traditional sex designations with the modern “Body Type” system. The original Oblivion (2006) featured male and …
With EverQuest’s 25th anniversary having just passed, I am not only a veteran player, but a person who lived and breathed Norrath from its earliest origins. I have walked its …
Loyal EverQuest fans, brace yourselves for another dose of bitter disappointment. For over 18 months, Daybreak Game Company has dangled a Creative Director job for Darkpaw Games like a carrot …
Role-playing games (RPGs) have long been a bastion of fantasy escapism, providing players with immersive worlds built on medieval European traditions. These games offered heroic adventures, grand quests, and clearly …
The year 2024 A.D. was an important milestone in MMORPG History. EverQuest, the brainchild of Brad McQuaid and John Smedley had somehow survived for a quarter of a century. Over …
If Amazon Games plays their cards right, they could see their upcoming Lord of the Rings MMORPG dethrone Blizzard’s aging giant, World of Warcraft. WoW is showing its age, not …
For almost 20 years, I have been writing articles about MMORPG design. There is one particular intellectual property that I’m very much interested in: EverQuest. Released in 1999, EQ was …
Hell has frozen over it seems. After 8 years of stealth development, Rob Pardo’s Bonfire Studios has finally released the name of its upcoming video game for the PC. It …
For the past 30 years, the notion of representation has been incrementally injected into the cultural bloodstream. Even though nobody ever voted for representation ideology, it has crept into all …
Game development has devolved into a brutal zero-sum battle for the only resource that truly matters: time. Forget the astronomical revenue figures paraded around by industry execs as if they …
If you wait long enough, a bad penny turns up. I just learned that Steve “Moorgard” Danuser has completed time off from working on Blizzard’s World of Warcraft and taken …
