The year thus far has not been the best possible year for Star Citizen. The game has seen a few people depart from prominent positions, delays to planned release schedules, and an essay by the ever-contentious Derek Smart claiming the game will never be made as pitched. Community manager Ben Lesnick addressed these concerns in a lengthy forum post yesterday, covering pretty much any and all concerns raised by players over the past several months.

In this special podcastish episode, Larry, Justin, MJ, and Bree debate genre definitions, business models, and building the perfect MMO.

Antmen are hot properties this July, or so we heard. Alas, there are not many places that you can explore what life would be like as an ant adventurer — unless, of course, you decided to pick up The Hammers End.

Why is it that players have to pay money to beta test games now? The practice of selling early access / alpha access is ridiculous.

I freely admit that I never actually played Glitch, but I was glad it existed and sad at the people who never even had the chance to play it. So it does my heart good to see that Eleven is rallying on full steam ahead to produce a playable version of the game for everyone. You guys keep doing your thing.

Community Manager Deirdre ‘DD’ Hollis and Brand Manager Kari Hale chat with Product Director Mike Donatelli and Class Lead Steve Engle about the move to Free-to-Play and the Class Stat changes coming to WildStar!

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I dig the online magazine format, and I hope PDF download comes faster.

One thing that you can say about a lot of Korean MMOs is that they are a visual feast for the eyes, and new title Lost Ark promises to rival them all. This upcoming game by developer Smilegate is using the Unreal Engine 3 and a top-down isometric view to create a hack-and-slasher.

Topfreemmorpg.net has released the Top MMORPG 2014 list that reveals all of the best MMO games of the year.