Category: Video Games
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 …
In every meaningful movement, there’s a moment when temptation sneaks in — that urge to bend the rules just once, to brush aside a principle for the sake of a …
In the past decade, video games have undergone a dramatic and sinister shift—not in gameplay mechanics or technological innovation, but in the values and ideology subverting their creation. Terms like …
Daniel Vávra, the Czech game developer behind Mafia and Kingdom Come: Deliverance, has revealed that during the development of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, he feared being fired due to his …
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 …
As time distances us from the events of 2014, the memory of Gamergate has begun to fade. For those who lived through it, Gamergate was a chaotic, messy, and multifaceted …
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 …
The France-based Ubisoft, once a titan of the gaming world, now teeters on the brink of ruin, its reputation battered by self-inflicted wounds and a desperate grasp for relevance. The …
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 …
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 …
