World of Darkness Lore for Newcomers: A Friendly Guide to Vampire: The Masquerade and Beyond World of Darkness can feel intimidating when you first peek behind the curtain. There are clans, sects, ancient conspiracies, five…
Why MMOs Get Cancelled: Lessons from World of Darkness and Beyond In April 2014, CCP Games pulled the plug on World of Darkness Online, a Vampire: The Masquerade MMO that had been in development for…
What Happened to the World of Darkness MMO? We still remember the buzz that rippled through the MMO community when CCP Games confirmed it was building a World of Darkness MMO. For fans of Vampire:…
Vampire: The Masquerade Games Ranked: From Worst to Best Ranking Vampire: The Masquerade games is a thankless task. The franchise’s quality swings wildly between cult classics and misfires, and every fan has a different opinion…
The Best Vampire Games on PC: Our Team’s Definitive Ranking We still remember the first time we crept through Santa Monica as a fledgling Kindred, the hum of the Bloodlines soundtrack crackling through cheap PC…
Tabletop to Screen: Adapting RPGs into Digital Worlds There is a particular magic to gathering around a table with friends, dice clattering across a worn character sheet, a story unfolding in real time through shared…
Sandbox vs Theme-Park MMOs: Which Design Fits World of Darkness? Ask anyone on our team what the best MMO of all time is and you’ll get a split vote. Half of us point to EVE…
Reading Leaked Design Documents Critically: A World of Darkness Guide Every few months, a fresh document purporting to be from inside a World of Darkness project lands on an image board or a Discord server,…
Playing Vampire by Post and Online: A World of Darkness Guide We remember it well: the clatter of dice on a coffee table, the flicker of candles, and a Storyteller describing the fog rolling off…
How to Follow Game News Without Hype: A Practical Guide for MMO and World of Darkness Fans Another week, another breathless headline about an online RPG that promises to change everything. You have seen it…
