Pirates of the Burning Sea

By Cody Bye Nothing says "Hello!" like a punch in the face.Every time you look, the developers at Flying Lab Software are implementing some new skill, change or system into Pirates of the Burning Sea. Now that their Avatar Combat changes are hitting the... read more

By Cody Bye The anniversary events and updates are ready to go live for Pirates of the Burning Sea. Their special coats, the changes to the economy, and the Black Sails and Dread Saints storylines are all going live. Here's the official word from Rhaegar: We will be upgrading our North American, Europe...

By Ethec Today's Loading... checks out some of the biggest news stories we missed this week while celebrating the 1,000th Loading... ever. PotBS celebrates its one-year anniversary while Funcom stays positive on Age of Conan, FusionFall goes large, and what's with this talk of two new classes in Warha...

By Cody Bye Over at the official Pirates of the Burning Sea website, the developers have posted up their new skill tunes and tweaks for players to discuss and churn over. In general, it looks like Buccaneers and Privateers are seeing the most change. Here's a breakdown: 1.12 contains a variety of change...

By RadarX 2008 was a bumpy year for MMOG's but the folks over at Gameriot/Hellforge have taken that a step further. Showing the thorough research of a violent videogame study, they discuss the epic fails that launched last year which include Tabula Rasa, Hellgate: London, Pirates of the Burning Se...

By Morvelaira Our friends at Prima have created a must-have guide for every Pirates of the Burning Sea fan," said Troy Hewitt, Director, Community Relations at Flying Lab Software. "Filled with the latest in piratical play-tips, this official guide is a tremendous resource for even the most sea-wort...

By Morvelaira As you’ve probably seen in Taelorn’s recent devlogs, patch 1.4 has a lot of important changes to careers, especially for Pirates. Now that this patch is ready for testing, my job is to be sure you’re going to like it. We need players like you to play with these new changes and give us feedback bef...

By Ethec After receiving a laudable 89% in the usually MMORPG-averse PC Gamer's May issue, we thought it might be smooth sailing for the Age of Sail themed MMORPG Pirates of the Burning Sea, released in January. Eurogamer, however, took issue with the game's instancing and avatar combat before si...

By Aelryn This evening, Flying Lab Software staff issued a series of permanent bans as a result of gold selling activities by players of Pirates of the Burning Sea. Additionally, 24 hour bans were issued on multiple accounts found to have ...