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Like clockwork, the end of the month heralds another patch release for Shroud of the Avatar. "Polish" is the keyword for this update, as...

Finding the fun, I'm sorry to say, was a bit on the fleeting side. The problem isn't that Shroud of the Avatar suddenly stopped having...

Shroud of the Avatar is gearing up for one of its like-clockwork monthly releases: 45 on Thursday. In preparation, this week's newsletter features a...

One of the things that I believe is utterly vital to writing about games in general and MMOs in particular is finding the fun....

With the broad outline of the game now completed, Shroud of the Avatar's team is turning to placeholder locations and revising them with hand-crafted...

Heading into Shroud of the Avatar for the first time was a bit of a strange experience for me, right from the start. Usually,...

One of the fun things about this hobby is that certain tropes repeat themselves constantly. And they're usually weirdly specific tropes, too. Poop quests,...

If you haven't been aware of it, Shroud of the Avatar is currently running yet another extended trial for the remainder of the month. That...

I really know pretty much nothing about Ultima. This is only partly my fault. Way back when the Ultima games were a big deal on...

Shroud of the Avatar's equity crowdfunding campaign on SeedInvest has come to a close, with 518 investors having raised just shy of $700,000 in...

Shroud of the Avatar's latest newsletter has plenty of business business business, but the highlights are always the developers' diaries on various locations and...

So this is an unusual situation for me: I've never actually played a game for Choose My Adventure that I've disliked this much. Those of...

Shroud of the Avatar's equity crowdfunding venture has gone rather well: Portalarium declared last night that it has "exceeded SeedInvest target and  now...

Shroud of the Avatar's development continues along, and Massively OP's MJ needs to catch up! There is so much to see and do in...

The Shroud of the Avatar team is sitting pretty on top of this past week's Release 44, but there is always more to be...

Shroud of the Avatar is complete. Not the full game itself, of course, but the storyline to episode one is now fully playable from start...

Curious about astrophysics? The Massively OP Podcast brought on a special guest for a fun holiday bonus 'cast back in 2015 to answer a...

Yesterday, Shroud of the Avatar's Starr Long announced a change to its testing forums that has ruffled more than a few backer feathers. "Due to the...

The Shroud of the Avatar team is staying quite busy this summer as it works to finish up the game world for launch later...

I often joke with our readers that Massively OP is not an MMO uptime monitor, but darn if we don't feel like a Richard...