Generally used to describe MMOs from before World of Warcraft’s launch in 2004, though sometimes shortened to describe just the first few MMOs launched prior to 2000.
classic mmo
Perfect Ten: Original MMOs that never came to be
"What could have been" is a path that I travel frequently, especially when I write The Game Archaeologist column. It genuinely haunts me that...
Coronavirus roundup: GamesCom 2020 is still planned for August – for now
With GDC and E3 closing their doors, you might be wondering about GamesCom 2020, originally set for August this summer. Will the coronavirus have...
The MOP Up: Dark Age of Camelot widens its F2P doorway
St. Patty's day is alive and kicking in Dark Age of Camelot through next Wednesday, but the big news here is that Broadsword is...
Battle Bards Episode 164: Away with the fairies
If you ever walked into a forest glade at the light of the first full moon of the year, you may spy an impish...
RuneScape shows off object outlining, begins elaborating on Archaeology, and hosts a crafting event
RuneScape fans, it's Monday, so that means we're once again just gorged full of news items related to the sandbox MMORPG. Let's exercise that...
The Daily Grind: What’s the best type of MMO class for hiding scrubs?
Last week, the MOP staff were idly chatting about the early days of MMO, when one of us (who shall remain nameless!) mentioned being...
RuneScape Mobile gameplay is demonstrated on iOS in a developer livestream
RuneScape Mobile as been chugging along in early access for Android devices for quite a while now, but that's also left iOS users perhaps...
Massively Overthinking: How could MMOs combat endgame rushing?
Rushers, content locusts, world-firsters: Whatever you want to call them, these folks are both a boon and a bane for MMORPGs. They buy the...
Ultima Online adds barrel punching to house decay, Dark Age of Camelot answers a grab bag of questions
For those MMORPG players who like their games a bit more old school, there's some new updates coming out of Ultima Online and Dark...
RuneScape adds scaling to Solak, adds a ripper demon pet, and revives the Ninja Team
If it's Monday, it's another weekly update from RuneScape! In the regular weekly newsletter from Jagex we're getting word of some new scaling features...
The Daily Grind: Do old MMOs perform so much better now than at launch that they’re actually easier?
MMO blogger Wilhelm of The Ancient Gaming Noob fame recently posed us a question about old vs. new MMOs. "Our WoW Classic group has been...
The Game Archaeologist: Tabula Rasa
The story of Tabula Rasa begins, as so many others do, with 1997's Ultima Online. Raph Koster and Richard Garriott's online fantasy sandbox proved...
Funcom Q4 2019: DUNE takes priority, Conan Exiles confirms paid expansion, Tencent buyout continues
It's been an interesting financial period for Funcom, what with the Tencent buyout and investors pushing for accelerated production on the DUNE survivalbox. The...
Hands-on with Dragon Raja: First impressions of Tecent’s new mobile MMORPG
I enjoy mobile MMOs. It's a hit-or-miss kind of genre: Some are great, others are terrible. I personally love the adventure of finding those good...
RuneScape’s Archaeology skill launches March 30 in ‘major expansion’
You probably saw the peeks on Twitter last night, but it's officially official now: RuneScape's Archaeology skill is finally launching on March 30th as...
RuneScape patches in quality-of-life and asks players to fill out a survey
This week in RuneScape is pretty tame overall as far as updates go. There is the Double XP Weekend Extended happening, of course, but...
Jukebox Heroes: Ten MMOs that strongly support their soundtracks
It's one thing to put a lot of music in your MMORPG or even to release that launch-day album. It's another thing entirely to...
Into the Super-verse: How City of Heroes welcomed me into MMOs
As we approach the first anniversary of City of Heroes' revival on the rogue server circuit, I wanted to take this opportunity to share...
Anarchy Online kicks off anniversary event celebrating one year of its classic server, Rubi-Ka 2019
It was the summer of 2001, dystopian sci-fi was at its apex, and everyone I knew was trying Anarchy Online. And by trying, I...
RuneScape adjusts mining rates, teases Archaeology, and prepares for charity streams
RuneScape is once again back with another week of news bits for its players. This week, there's some new-look patch notes, reminders of upcoming...
