warhammer

Disambiguation:

Warhammer Online, a defunct MMORPG
Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade, a PvP MMO
Warhammer: Wrath of Heroes, a defunct MOBA

This guy is decked out in armor. THAT is a talent, even.

Jack Emmert talks up NetEase support for his studio’s Warhammer MMO, talks down a PvP design focus

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Back in May we caught wind of developer Jack Emmert's shift from Daybreak to the newly formed NetEase-owned studio Jackalyptic Games, which is starting...

Warhammer Online Return of Reckoning lets players craft special jewelry during the Twilight’s Tide event

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For fans of the Warhammer fantasy IP, having a celebration turn into a time when there are even more demonic and chaotic threats is...

Choose My Adventure: Frustrations mount in Warhammer Return of Reckoning

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Memory is a funny ol' thing. It can straight-up lie to you and convince you of something that probably wasn't even there. Or it...

Choose My Adventure: PvP and RvR bring reward and rage in Warhammer Online Return of Reckoning

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It was pretty darn clear what you folks wanted me to experience next in the Return of Reckoning rogue server for Warhammer Online, and...

Choose My Adventure: A Warhammer Online Return of Reckoning reunion with a dash of WAAAGH

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It's criminal that there aren't as many Warhammer games that use the Orks. They're my favorite group in the game purely because they just...

Choose My Adventure: Age of Conan engages my barbarian rage

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Let me be honest with you all: This week saw me ragequit out of Age of Conan, though not quite to the point that...

Working As Intended: My 20 years of Star Wars Galaxies

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Last year, when Ultima Online turned 25 years old, I did a piece reminiscing on those early days and marveling that so much of...
Shovels!

Massively Overthinking: Which MMOs are memorable but not actually fun?

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Earlier this week, we ran a Daily Grind on MMOs that are fun but not especially memorable, throwing it back to a quote from...
Our faith has been rewarded!

Perfect Ten: MMOs that ghosted us after talking a big game

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There's nothing worse as a fan of games to buy into all of the hype and previews of a promising-looking project only to see...

Jack Emmert confirms that NetEase’s Warhammer 40,000 MMO is being built in Unreal Engine 5

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Hopefully you didn't miss the fascinating announcement last month that Jack Emmert's new Austin-based, NetEase-owned game studio is working on a Warhammer 40,000 MMO...

The Stream Team: Violently taking the checkered flag in Warhammer 40K Speed Freeks

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What happens when you combine the Orks of the Warhammer 40K universe, multiplayer racing, and the vehicular combat of Twisted Metal? You might get...

Massively Overthinking: Are we in an ‘MMO hype vacuum’?

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James "MMO Folklorist" Crosby recently penned a piece using a term that seems so apt I feel we should all adopt it: the MMO...
See, that's the joke of the name.

Perfect Ten: 10 old MMO promises that never happened

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Developers like to talk a big game. It's expected, it's encouraged by all parties, and it's part of the fun. When a game or...

Warhammer Return of Reckoning celebrates Sigmartag events with nice crispy bacon

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Rogue server Warhammer: Return of Reckoning is not running an event about sausages, but also it kind of is! Happy Friday: It's Sigmartag. "Bells toll...
Hammer, war, whatever.

Jack Emmert’s NetEase-owned studio rebrands as Jackalyptic Games, teases Warhammer 40K title

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The studio is named Jackalyptic Games, it's owned by Netease, and it's headed by Jack Emmert. You might think that you wouldn't want to...

Bungie’s Carrie Gouskos shares the sad story of Warhammer Online’s odd MOBA spin-off

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Those faithful Warhammer Online veterans in our audience will no doubt recall the name Carrie Gouskos. Gouskos, who's currently working as an executive producer...
Being back in Azeroth might be a little more reassuring.

Former Trion boss Scott Hartsman illuminates the rise and fall of RIFT

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Yesterday, we ran an editorial from MOP's Tyler focused on his reasoning that MMOs are better off showcasing their own special attributes than tearing...
Actually developing a title to not be a boring slog is a skill some developers have yet to master.

Perfect Ten: 10 franchises that deserve another shot at an MMO

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Some experiments are attempted once and fail, and it's not hard to figure out why that didn't work. We don't really need to take...
Infinite Crisis

The Game Archaeologist: The tale of Infinite Crisis, Turbine’s extremely short-lived DC Comics MOBA

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Sharp minds will recall that back in 2012, EA Mythic attempted to turn its declining MMO fortunes by repackaging Warhammer Online into a MOBA...

Massively Overthinking: The MMO characters we want to love but don’t

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A few weeks ago, MOP reader Neurotic pinged the MOP Podcast with a question about characters we want to love but just don't. He...

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