rift

[AL:Rift]Official Site: RIFT
Studio: Trion Worlds
Launch Date: March 1, 2011
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC

Perfect Ten: My favorite features in RIFT

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RIFT receives too little of the MMORPG community's attention, partially due to its age (six years now), contentious feelings toward Trion Worlds, or a perception...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 79: MOP goes to the opera

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW, GW2, RIFT, Eternal Crusade, ESO, WildStar, Neverwinter, and Das Tal, with mailbag questions on armor scaling and better guild systems.

RIFT covers Starfall Prophecy’s Gedlo Badlands

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"The land is almost barren, and harsh. No soft and nourishing forests, no comforting leafy shade. You'll be glad to hear that there are...

One Shots: Swords and other pointy things

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What are swords good for? For one thing, they make excellent pointers, communicating to your audience that this thing over here is what you're...

The Daily Grind: Which older MMO still looks really pretty?

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I've been spending more time in RIFT lately due to the expansion announcement, and an observation that's crossed my mind more than once is...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 77: Improving your lockbox experience

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Justin and Bree discuss Guild Wars 2, Diablo III, RIFT, Elder Scrolls Online, Blizzard, Black Desert, and TERA, with mailbag questions on new blood for MMOs and a lockbox rant.

One Shots: Player barbecue

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Oh, standing in the fires might look cool and give your character that mysterious aura that's so desirable among the trendy set, but in...

Here’s everything you need to know about RIFT’s Starfall Prophecy expansion

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When RIFT players cast their minds back to the last expansion, Nightmare Tide, chances are that two aspects that stick out more than the...

RIFT’s Starfall Prophecy is on sale before it’s been officially announced

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If all the rumors from the last month about RIFT's Starfall Prophecy expansion didn't convince you it's happening, how about the fact that it's...

Global Chat: When MMORPG raiding becomes a job

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When does a game go from fun to obligation? Xenophics wrote a gut-wrenching confession about how raiding in World of Warcraft became his "office,"...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 76: The fall of Firefall

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Justin and Bree discuss WoW Legion, Guild Wars 2, SOTA, SWTOR, Firefall, StarCraft Universe, Age of Wushu 2, and RIFT, with mailbag questions on early MMO adoption and permadeath in MMOs.

One Shots: Topless edition

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We must warn you that this week's One Shots will be headlined by naked flesh from the waist on up. If you are reading...

Massively Overthinking: Starting over with MMORPGs

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This week's Massively Overthinking topic is from a reader named Yasser, who asked us: "If you had to pick one MMO to experience all over...
RIFT

EU gaming blogs seemingly confirm RIFT’s Starfall Prophecy expansion

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Earlier this month, we wrote about a Trion Worlds video game software trademark filing for "Starfall Prophecy," which prompted speculation on whether that might...

The Daily Grind: What MMORPG city would you not want to see destroyed?

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ArenaNet teased last week that some sort of doom might befall the Krytan city Divinity's Reach in the impending living world season, and I'm sad. Guild...

One Shots: Strange voyages

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As cool and iconic that Star Trek ships look, I've always thought they also came across as fragile, with pieces sticking out here and...
Emetic.

Social VR MMO MetaWorld will use SpatialOS just like Chronicles of Elyria

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UK tech startup Improbable is stretching the bounds of the MMO and MMORPG again with its announcement that its SpatialOS will serve as the...

Trion’s Scott Hartsman on Trove’s console launch, fighting lag, and whether RIFT is next

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Following Trion's announcement earlier this week that its cutesy voxel sandbox MMORPG Trove had registered five million players in its first year and that...

Perfect Ten: The most exciting MMO developments yet to come in 2016

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In the annals of MMORPG history, 2016 might well go down as a very odd duck of a year. While on the surface it...

RIFT’s Summer Solstice patch is here

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Fire up the grill and roast some weenies: RIFT's 3.7 update has arrived. Today's Summer Solstice patch contains quite a lot for players to do and...

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