Interviews

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Catching up with Shroud of the Avatar’s Starr Long

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As Kickstarter projects successfully funded via the power of nostalgia have proven, gamer loyalty can burn strong even decades after experiencing titles that make...

Shards’ project lead talks development, pay-for-mods, and more

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What's up with Shards Online this week? Well, quite a bit according to project lead and Ultima Online veteran Derek Brinkmann. MassivelyOP recently caught up with...

BioWare’s analytics manager talks SWTOR stats and their effect on design

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If you've ever been curious about how data analytics impacts MMO design decisions, a new interview at SWTOR Network is worth your time. Alex...

Chaos Theory: The lowdown on The Secret World’s motorcycles

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Ever since The Secret World's debut dev livestream two weeks ago teased motorcycle mounts, players have been abuzz with anticipation. The desire for vehicles...
Still crazy after all these years.

Turbine on the future of Dungeons & Dragons Online

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Dungeons & Dragons Online is not one of the biggest titles on the market, but it was one of the first major subscription games...

Linda ‘Brasse’ Carlson on ArcheAge, community management, and her new role at Trion

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Linda "Brasse" Carlson is one of the MMO industry's most beloved community specialists, and genre fans everywhere boggled just a bit when Daybreak laid...

Behind the scenes of the Marvel Heroes machine

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With Marvel movies and television shows coming out left and right (and the comics, of course), hitching your game to this hot property is...

Albion Online’s newest dev answers community queries, snaps at EVE trolls

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Albion Online is surely milking its acquisition of Game Designer Matt Woodward for all its worth. After Albion heralded his arrival with a level...

Ex-City of Heroes devs answer insane number of lore questions

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The now-annual City of Heroes "Loregasm" is complete, with ex-developers Matt Miller and Sean McCann delivering another wealth of insights into the late, great...

World of Warcraft dev attributes subscriber drop to ‘cyclical’ play patterns

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Losing three million subscribers? That might be a big thing to some people, but for World of Warcraft Lead Game Designer Ion Hazzikostas, it...

DC Universe Online: Halls of Power II and the end of DLC

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If you are not a subscriber to DC Universe Online, you're still sitting back on the sidelines anticipating the release of Halls of Power Part...

‘No more grind’: PvP sandbox Das Tal launches its Kickstarter

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As promised, buy-to-play indie PvP sandbox Das Tal has begun a Kickstarter campaign today to coincide with the launch of the German wing of...
Part of your etc.

Crowfall’s Walton wants to shake up the MMO business

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Crowfall producer Gordon Walton features in a new interview at MOTD Media. If you're a big fan of the crowdfunded PvP MMO, you won't find...
Star Trek Online

Star Trek Online interviews Voyager veterans and Season 10 voice actors

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Star Trek Online's Season 10: The Iconian War adds franchise veterans Robert Duncan McNeill and Lisa LoCicero to the fold. McNeill and LoCicero will...

Why Eternal Crusade can’t do a global megaserver

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The dream to create a PvP-centric game on a single global megaserver might be just that -- a dream. Warhammer 40,000: Eternal Crusade Senior Producer...

Talking with Trion about the future of Trove

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If you dismissed Trove early on as an insignificant game or a thinly veiled Minecraft clone, then it might be time to take a...

Chaos Theory: Reaping the Whirlwind in The Secret World’s Issue #11

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To spoil or not to spoil; that is the question. When it comes to The Secret World, that's a very serious question indeed! As much...

Daybreak’s John Smedley: EverQuest Next isn’t ‘vaporware’

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Even though the big SOE-to-Daybreak transformation happened three months ago, the entire ordeal still feels fresh to many fans. An air of uncertainty permeates speculation...

Blasting through a hands-on with TERA’s new Gunner

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Are you tempted by TERA's new Gunner? I am. Admittedly it's been a long while since I've frolicked in the land of Arborea, but my interest is...

EverQuesting: Daybreak expounds on Landmark’s postponed wipe

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Some pretty big changes are on their way to Landmark, not the least of which is the final full character wipe and an extensive...