[AL:Rift]Official Site:Â RIFT
Studio:Â Trion Worlds
Launch Date: March 1, 2011
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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Gamigo’s RIFT celebrates Steam’s 20th birthday with free subs, mounts, and boosts
If you've been on Steam since the early days, you're celebrating a 20th anniversary alongside Valve this week, and some games are jumping in...
Perfect Ten: Times when MMOs brought about world-shattering cataclysms
The notion of an in-game cataclysm is hardly the sole domain of Activision-Blizzard; on the contrary, large-scale apocalypses pop up all the time in...
The Stream Team: Guild Wars 2’s Mother of Stars
Massively OP's MJ has discovered she's not in Kansas anymore! Not that she ever was; she was in Guild Wars 2's Garenhoff investigating the...
RIFT reruns its weekend-long Budgie Days racing event until August 20
Budgie. Budgie budgie budgie. Budgeegles. Budgaroo. Birdie. Budgo. Budgie Days that are back once again in RIFT from now until August 20th. That's three...
RIFT appoints yet another community manager following previous departures
The revolving door for RIFT's community managers is a source of slight amusement and never-ending frustration for the MMO's beleaguered community. In 2022 alone,...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s Secrets of the Obscure
It has been a weird time to be a Guild Wars 2 fan, with a lot of ups and downs lately. End of Dragons...
Guild Wars 2 exhibits Secrets of the Obscure’s rift hunting in another new vid
When Secrets of the Obscure launches later this month, Guild Wars 2 isn't going to abandon old Tyria in favor of the new zones....
Perfect Ten: 10 memorable MMO marketing campaigns from the genre’s past
Believe it or not, MMOs get off easy when it comes to notorious marketing campaigns. Anything on the following list, good or bad, is...
Guild Wars 2 teases Secrets of the Obscure’s new kryptis enemies and rift hunting mechanics
It's August 1st, which means we're exactly 22 days away from the launch of Guild Wars 2's next expansion as Secrets of the Obscure...
Not So Massively: Diablo IV’s disastrous 1.1.0 patch – and Blizzard’s mea culpa
Diablo IV's last week has just been the drama gift that keeps on giving, and since Blizzard's latest toy is my favorite game right...
Interview: Neverwinter announces 26th module, Demonweb Pits, with a new ‘post-leveling experience’
Neverwinter's 26th module is Demonweb Pits, and it's rolling out on July 18th, Cryptic and Gearbox announced today. Launching on PC, PlayStation, and Xbox,...
RIFT hands out a week of patron access for last week’s server downtime
Despite Summerfest attempting to bring some warmth to the lands of RIFT this month, a chilly pall persists over the game due to a...
Gamigo’s RIFT kicks off Summerfest as players await outage compensation
So we really have no idea what Gamigo is up to with RIFT, but there's a silver lining to whatever it is: The company...
Gamigo’s RIFT was down for two days and understandably freaked everyone out
A standard server restart this past Tuesday turned into a morass of confusion and consternation as RIFT went offline in North America and stayed...
RIFT’s hellbug invasion from Defiance returns with a bounty of rewards
Yes, we're still quite curious what Gamigo's intentions for Trion Worlds' cast-off RIFT may be, but in the meanwhile, we don't begrudge the MMO...
Lost Ark’s Elgacia continent and latest abyssal dungeon arrive tomorrow with the June patch
We're just one day away from Lost Ark's June update, so naturally Amazon is pulling out all the stops on previewing the content -...
RIFT’s been running a month of promotions and character boosts, so what is Gamigo up to?
With the same fondness of a parent for a wayward grown-up child who's wandered into a troublesome stretch, we have been watching RIFT with...
RIFT runs Shiny Shenanigans event with ocular surgery [Updated]
The tenacious existence of RIFT continues despite all odds, as Gamigo activated a short-duration Shiny Shenanigans event this week. From now through May 14th, players...
MGI’s 2022 financial report is bad news for RIFT and most of Gamigo’s remaining MMOs
Gamigo and KingsIsle parent company MGI recently posted its 2022 financial report, and things aren't looking great for interest and investment into current and...
Lawful Neutral: What if Activision-Blizzard just… sold Blizzard?
Last week, Activision-Blizzard and Bobby Kotick got a bad surprise: The UK moved to block the acquisition of ABK by Microsoft, citing concerns over...
