meridian 59

Justin and Bree discuss Final Fantasy XIV 5.3, City of Heroes Homecoming, Daybreak buying Cold Iron, WoW Shadowlands' prepatch, EVE Echoes' launch, Epic's lawsuit, and the passing of Meridian 59's Brian Grene, with adventures in Valiance Online, LOTRO, and The Sims 4, plus a mailbag topic on industry stress for devs.

Last week, we covered the tragic news that Brian Green, better known as Psychochild around here, had passed away, far too young at the...

It's with a very heavy heart today that we report that Brian "Psychochild" Green has passed away at a relatively young age. Green was...

Behind history are people and stories, some of them well-known and some of them obscure. It has been my mission in The Game Archaeologist...

You know that sinking feeling when you get into something that's way, waaaay over your head and you have no choice but to swim...

While The Game Archaeologist columns take up the most time of any project I do here at Massively OP, I absolutely love doing them...

If you haven't visited Psychochild's Blog -- the brainchild of former Meridian 59 and Storybricks dev Brian Green -- lately, you are missing out...

One of the MMORPG genre's longest-running titles is finally making the jump to Steam in the hopes of picking up a new generation of...

Most studios would be overjoyed to have pioneered one significant advancement in video game history, but then again, most studios aren't Kesmai. While it's...

Ever pause during your day and find yourself wondering, “Whatever happened to that game?” With hundreds upon hundreds of online titles these days, it’s surprisingly easy...

By the time that World of Warcraft came on the scene in 2004, the MMORPG industry had already gravitated toward standard when it came...

Plenty of panels at GDC are recorded and uploaded to the internet weeks after the event, including this one. It's not quite the same...

When we moved over here to Massively Overpowered, some of us transplanted our long-running columns to the new space. I perhaps felt most devastated...

Veteran MMO developer Brian Green is perhaps best known for his stewardship over Meridian 59, one of the oldest and long-running online RPGs in...

Recently we had an interesting question come in from reader and Patron Rasmus Praestholm, who asked me to do a little investigating: "What (if...

When it comes to text-based MMOs created in the '80s, '90s, and 2000s, the sheer number of them would blot out the sky. There...

As Asheron's Call 1 & 2 are going offline shortly, I thought I might give it a final send-off with a list of things I...

I confess that I have a particular fascination for MMOs that came into existence in the 1990s. It's not only the fact that I...

Are you the type of gamer to make resolutions? I'm not, but I know a lot of people who map out their year ahead...

One of the most common questions that I'm asked from my adoring throngs on the street is, "Justin, where oh where can I get...