Richard Garriott and Starr Long’s studio working on Shroud of the Avatar.
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Stormgate studio Frost Giant opens equity crowdfunding campaign to make players into investors
Back in February, we covered the eyebrow-raising story that Frost Giant, the studio behind multiplayer RTS Stormgate, was planning to make a push for...
Perfect Ten: MMOs that earned a notorious reputation
Nobody wants a bad reputation. I mean, you can't make everyone everywhere approve of you, but you also don't have to go out of...
Shroud of the Avatar adds a chicken spawner and hands out confetti eggs in Release 124
Chickens and eggs? In Shroud of the Avatar? It's not just more likely than you think; they're a couple of the features that have...
Shroud of the Avatar devs form new studio to make AI-generated roguelike battle royale Project Rise
If you thought that the waters surrounding some of Shroud of the Avatar's bigwigs weren't muddy before now, things are potentially about to get...
Shroud of the Avatar lets players build bazaars and live on the water in Release 123
Whether you're keen to create a market stall-filled bazaar or dodge property taxes because you're living on the water, Release 123 of Shroud of...
Shroud of the Avatar marks 10 years with portals to the chicken room and previews a ‘sneak scene’
It just ain't a party unless you step into a dungeon crawl where you get to slaughter legions of chickens! Or that's apparently the...
MassivelyOP’s Weirdest MMO Stories of 2023: Weirdest MMO celebrity insert
Today we're kicking off our traditional countdown of MassivelyOP's weirdest MMORPG stories of the year, that year being 2023!
Coming in at #5 on our...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding stories of 2023
Welcome to a special end-of-the-year edition of Make My MMO, the MassivelyOP column where we - well, I - keep tabs on all of...
The MOP Up: Valheim’s Christmas surprise
As the nights turn frosty in Valheim, a strange wintry cheer spreads through the land. Could it be... could it be a plum pudding...
Working As Intended: The hits and misses of our 2023 MMO predictions
We've been offering up an MMO predictions list for Massively Overthinking for years upon years now as our writers and readers prognosticate on the...
Shroud of the Avatar prepares to celebrate 10 years of monthly updates in December
It's been almost 10 years since Shroud of the Avatar started making monthly updates - since December 2013 by Catnip Games' reckoning, which is...
Perfect Ten: 10 MMO things you can just stop waiting for
Sooner or later we all have to face facts and accept that something we wanted at one point is never actually going to happen....
The MOP Up: Palia releases its super-chill soundtrack
Feast your ear-tongues on these sound-pops: Palia's completely chill score is now available as a full 24-track album that you can listen to on...
Perfect Ten: 10 of the worst launches in MMO history
Launch time is a difficult time for every MMO, and honestly, I have nothing but sympathy for the teams launching a new game at...
The MOP Up: Aura Kingdom 2’s global pre-registration arrives with NFTs in tow
Aura Kingdom 2: Evolution, the mobile follow-up to the first Aura Kingdom, started taking global pre-registrations this past week. By signing up, players can...
Shroud of the Avatar continues releasing zone maps and preps a Richard Garriott birthday stream
Last weekend saw another update for Shroud of the Avatar, which once again focuses primarily on adjusting, tuning, and fixing existing content, as well...
Perfect Ten: The most regrettable MMO studio names
The name of a studio has no bearing on the game's quality. You might disagree and point to a game you were more inclined...
MMO dev Richard Garriott’s Explorers Club joins search for missing submersible at the site of the Titanic
As part of our 2021 recap, we counted among our "weirdest stories" articles representing the weirdest things MMO developer Richard Garriott did that weren't,...
Vague Patch Notes: So why didn’t crowdfunded MMOs save the genre?
The past few weeks we've been following this freakin' thing because... well, obvious reasons. But that has me thinking about crowdfunding in general, because...
Shroud of the Avatar makes world maps, fixes quests, and gives fluffy dogs to subscribers
It might be considered a shame that the extremely fluffy good boi pictured above is associated with a game like Shroud of the Avatar,...