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Crowfall confirms layoffs, attributing them to switching to a ‘live service’ op
On Labor Day, we reported that Crowfall team ArtCraft had suffered a round of layoffs. While ArtCraft itself declined to comment on the record...
PlanetSide 2’s inbound patch makes map adjustments for low and high population situations
PlanetSide 2 has a big PTS patch in store for later this week, Daybreak announced just ahead of the long weekend. While the new...
EVE Online is running another ‘no-downtime’ experiment this week
Shall we play a game? EVE Online's Senior Live Director Erlendur S. Þorsteinsson aka CCP Explorer would like you to play forever. OK, maybe...
AA indie sandbox MMO Galaxies of Eden discusses classic vs. action combat switch and skill balancing
A month ago, we covered a new sandbox MMORPG under development by MIR Cybernetics Corporation: Galaxies of Eden. It's absurdly ambitious, with an alpha...
The MOP Up: Perfect World Mobile celebrates its second anniversary with extra bonuses
Perfect World Mobile just reached its second birthday, and with that comes a string of extra goodies, bonuses, login rewards, and even a special...
Battle Bards Episode 200: Battle Bards Bicentennial!
Can you believe it? The Battle Bards have hit 200 amazing episodes! Join Steff, Syl, and Syp as they take a victory lap around...
DC Universe Online is fixing episode 41’s endgame source marks situation
As surveys for DC Universe Online continue rolling in, Daybreak and Dimensional Ink are forging ahead with plans for future development, as catalogued in...
Global Chat: Returning to Guild Wars 2
Guild Wars 2's new (old) leadership, uptick in communication, and upcoming expansion have a lot of MMO players returning to the game lately --...
Playable Worlds’ Raph Koster has all but said he’s building a metaverse
If you've been listening to companies like Epic Games yammer about the "metaverse" over the last year and wondered whether it's all just a...
Massively Overthinking: MMO ideas that were ahead of their time
I'm gonna say something wild right now: In some ways, CliffyB was ahead of his time. My husband and I came to this realization...
Old School RuneScape makes adjustments to Deadman and unveils a Group Ironman mode
Last week saw the start of the new Reborn version of the Deadman tournament to Old School RuneScape, and already the mode has seen...
Albion Online teases ‘hideout HQs’ and new weapon lines
Sandbox Interactive has pushed out a new dev blog this week focusing on upcoming balancing changes in Albion Online, all part of its push...
Indie MMO TitanReach has apparently suspended development as ‘funds have dried up’
I have some bad news for fans of indie MMORPG TitanReach: The game has apparently suspended development thanks to a lack of funding. Australian studio...
Massively Overthinking: The worst chat in the MMORPG genre
The first rule of MMORPGs is turn off global chat. Think about that for a sec. This is a genre that is expressly multiplayer...
VR MMO Orbus previews next week’s Highsteppe revamp
VR MMO Orbus has a big patch coming next week, when the Highsteppe map and the hub town of Patreayl will get a full...
EVE Online is implementing a new plan for ‘skill plans’ this fall
CCP Games isn't finished tinkering with EVE Online's skill system: This week, it announced its plans for your plans - your skill plans, that...
Guild Wars 2 counts 16M accounts, drops fall roadmap, teases End of Dragons fishing and skiffs
Remember how excited everyone was to get the Guild Wars 2 summer roadmap out of ArenaNet earlier this year? Prepare to get excited all...
Global Chat: Hitting that endgame wall in MMOs
MMO blogger Digital Visceral recently wrote about a situation that many of us encounter in our games: Hitting that max level and feeling at...
Massively Overthinking: The MMO roadmaps worth following
This week's Massively Overthinking comes to us from longtime reader KenFromChicago. "As MMO reporters covering the MMO field, having some idea what to look for...
Playable Worlds’ lead designer: ‘We’re in the game industry because we love games’
Earlier this month, Playable Worlds' Greg Costikyan, the lead designer for Raph Koster's upcoming unnamed sandbox MMORPG, opened up about the way games get...
