While most of the MMO community is currently focused on BioWare’s recent announcement of a release date for Star Wars: The Old Republic, a very significant minority is looking toward a very different set of battles ravaging a galaxy on a server far, far away. These are the tribulations of the EVE Online community, who…

The recent release of Resident Evil 4 HD reminded us that some great games remain as inviting and playable as they ever were, even after the passage of several years and countless innovations within the same genre. If only the same could be said about tomorrow’s release of Resident Evil: Code: Veronica X HD. Almost…

Rift’s liberal borrowings from other titles such as Warhammer Online and World of Warcraft occasionally leave it feeling like the Frankenstein’s monster of MMOs, but one thing that separates it from these classics is a noticeable absence of that token niche of players who whine that there aren’t enough content updates. Even while some players…

Let’s admit it. Even after a couple of years’ worth of innovations, the man on the street is still likely to think that gaming on Facebook consists of endless variations on FarmVille and showing off neatly planned digital creations to anyone else who happens to be playing. (That, and bugging your buddies for a flowerpot…

With Resident Evil 4 HD, Capcom had the opportunity to take one of the previous generation’s greatest games and update it to a modern masterpiece as well. This summer’s Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time for 3DS proved that, with enough extra effort, even years-old titles can seem fresh and relevant. Sadly, Resident Evil…

Blizzard’s World of Warcraft: Cataclysm expansion took the massively multiplayer world by storm during its release in December 2010, offering new and updated zones, harder dungeons, and two new races to spice up the game’s almost seven-year-old framework. That initial flash of enthusiasm fizzled considerably over the following months, but Blizzard’s recently announced patch 4.3…

Greg Street, lead systems designer for World of Warcraft, can scarcely contain his excitement. When I called him to discuss the game’s upcoming Patch 4.3 with him last week, I half expected to sit through 20 minutes of dodgy answers and vague generalizations. Instead, Street spoke with the intensity of a man who has withheld…