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Hyperspace Beacon: Maybe SWTOR's treadmill ain't so bad

by Larry Everett (Dec 11th 2012 3:00PM)

Sometimes we need to see certain things from different perspectives in order to understand the whole truth. If detectives listened to only one eyewitness, then the totality of the crime would be missing. They could head in the wrong direction, thereby letting a criminal go free and possibly ...

The Soapbox: The problem with power creep and progression

by Larry Everett (Nov 6th 2012 12:00PM)

We've all seen it. You might not have put a name to it, but it's there. As MMOs get older, certain dungeons become obsolete. Or maybe that fantastic top-level gear you once had to have is completely worthless now and isn't even in normal gear progression anymore. That is power creep, the ...

Firefall extrapolates on its new progression system

by Larry Everett (Oct 4th 2012 6:00PM)

Hot on the heals of its blog post about dynamic events, Red 5 Studios now hopes to change up the whole progression system in its third-person shooter Firefall. The development team revamped the existing mostly linear advancement system to a more dynamic (there's that word again) skill-tree ...