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The Daily Grind: Are you sick of crypto and NFT crap in MMOs?
Yesterday, our genre's core subreddit floated a poll to subbers about whether or not crypto and NFT game threads should be characterized as scammy...
Legends of Aria’s new owner begins testing NFT system even as crypto crashes globally
Considering how badly crypto currencies and NFTs are crashing all over the globe this week, you would think that game studios would be running...
Legends of Aria talks up its next testing phases and attempts to rationalize why it ‘needs’ the blockchain
Legends of Aria is continuing to beat the drum of its revamp and restructuring into a blockchain and NFT-filled MMORPG. A new dev blog...
Legends of Aria sports a new site extolling its new blockchain nature
Remember when Legends of Aria was just an indie MMORPG based on allowing player-run servers instead of being involved with a dubious-at-best moneymaking scheme? Good...
Legends of Aria’s new owner discusses the revamp, Classic, and blockchain implementation
Just before Christmas, we learned that Citadel Studios and Legends of Aria, originally Kickstarted as Shards Online, were being bought out, along with the...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 354: Catch-up roundtable and state of the site
Justin, Bree, Tyler, and MJ discuss the 2021 MOP awards, Cryptic and PWE, Magic the Gathering Online, Fractured, Legends of Aria, Crowfall, and Book of Travels, with adventures in New World, Astroneer, Guild Wars 2, Star Trek Online, Albion Online, Star Wars Galaxies, SWTOR, LOTRO, and Elder Scrolls Online, finishing it off with a state of the site recap.
End-of-year Eleven: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures going into 2022
All right, so let's start with the disclaimer that I put right at the start of this article every single year, which at least...
Kickstarted MMO Legends of Aria and its studio just got bought out by an NFT metaverse games company
Time to add another game to the acquisition heap this week: Blue Monster Games has apparently purchased Citadel Studios and Legends of Aria, along...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 344: Elyon’s infinite silence
Justin and Colin discuss Elyon's launch, Guild Wars 2's elite specs, Fallen Earth, World of Warcraft 9.1.5, and Legends of Aria, with adventures in Elder Scrolls Online, GW2, and LOTRO, plus mailbag topics on cinematic trailers, MMO hype, and weapons we miss from dead MMOs.
Legends of Aria announces ‘Aria 2.0’ successor with a new game engine
It's no secret that Citadel Studio's Kickstarted Legends of Aria has wallowed in near-niche obscurity since its summer 2020 launch. Since then, the studio...
CODEX, an MMO based on the Shards engine, launches early access today after a brief delay
Just last week we first reported on CODEX, a project that licensed Legends of Aria's Shards Engine for the purpose of creating an MMO....
Shards-powered CODEX wants to ‘change the way we play massively multiplayer games’
You may recall that one of the goals of Citadel Studio in creating Legends of Aria was developing the flexible Shards Engine to allow...
Legends of Aria dev Citadel Studios will publish CODEX, a ‘seasonal shared world adventure’ MMO
It would appear that Citadel Studios, the developers of sandbox MMORPG Legends of Aria, has its fingers in a new pie. Readers will recall...
ARK Survival Evolved’s Genesis Part 2, the ‘bridge’ to the ARK sequel, is finally live
As promised, ARK Survival Evolved has finally rolled out part two of its massive Genesis update, which essentially puts a capstone on the game's...
Legends of Aria indefinitely delays patch, works on experimental server instead
We've certainly been wondering what's happened to Legends of Aria, which went really quiet in the early part of 2021 here. The last we...
Whatever happened to Legends of Aria?
The last time Legends of Aria studio Citadel made a formal announcement, it was two months ago, and it was an apology, as the...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2020
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's weekly and sometimes biweekly recap of the big news in crowdfunded MMOs. If you're...
Legends of Aria apologizes for COVID-related update and communication delays, shares details for Season 7
Season 7 is underway in Legends of Aria. This would likely be welcome news for most players but it's also possible that they were...
Legends of Aria deep-dives The Outlands’ Necromancer class
Legends of Aria has a fresh dev vlog out this week previewing its upcoming Outlands release, both its locations and its planned Necromancer class.
"The...
MassivelyOP’s 2020 guide to Halloween across the MMO world
Take a pro-tip from a Halloween gaming expert: If you shout "Bloody Mary" three times at any MMO login screen, you'll unlock a secret...
