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Remember back in March when Gloria Victis' Black Eye Games announced it was working with studio Fish Tank to release Gloria Victis: Siege, a survival game set in the same world as the MMORPG? That's still happening, and during today's Steam Game Festival, the studios have released the first public demo version of the game. They'll also be on...

When I joined the Massively team in 2010, the first MMO that released during my tenure was All-Points Bulletin, at the time one of the most expensive MMOs ever made. Unfortunately, it was also the first MMOs that went belly-up during my tenure, as just a few weeks after launch the game's original developer, Realtime Worlds, declared bankruptcy. Eventually,...

In the ancient Before Times (so, you know, two years ago), I wrote a column all about the different mechanics that hit you when you die. Today, though, I want to take a different tactic and ask a more philosophical question: Why do you get hit with penalties when your character's lifeless body slumps to the ground or your...

It's been a rocky year and a half for Atlas, the follow-up MMO to Studio Wildcard's ARK Survival Evolved. Just a few weeks ago, we recapped the early access title's history: It was announced as a mega-MMO that would hold 40,000 people, but its excruciatingly slow progress since its 2018 reveal had ensured peaks of only 3000 across the...

There are some races that are still waiting on new customization options within World of Warcraft: Shadowlands' alpha testing. But others are getting their expanded choices, and Tauren have finally gotten their time to shine with new hairstyles, horn styles, and even the option to have flowers in their hair. There's also a new display on the character creation...

The newest story in The Elder Scrolls Online is all about vampires in the north, and that seems like as good a time as any to have a good old-fashioned housing contest. So you should decorate your home for that. No, really, that's the core theme; players are tasked with making a room (or an entire home) that looks...

Last December, Corepunk blasted onto the MMO scene - and into our top list of MMOs to watch this year - when Dutch studio Artificial Core revealed the game as an isometric Unity-based MMORPG with a broad range of mechanics, from multiplayer dungeons and crafting to mounts and camps - and yes, PvP. Now we've gotten another glimpse of...

Amazon's upcoming MMO New World continues to shovel coal into the hype engine as it inches towards its July 23rd beta. David Verfaillie, the head of player experience for the game, offered up some details about New World's combat, PvP, and PvE options in an MMORPG interview while a video piece showed off the PvP War mode. In the interview,...

By chance, Justin mentioned crafting guilds in Shop Titans on this week's Massively OP Podcast, so when this press release for the game's first anniversary and 4.0.0 rolled along, I had to take a peek. The hook here is that you build a fantasy shop, craft items to stock it, sell it to adventurers, and then put together your...

Back in May, Newzoo came out with a report that asserts something like four in five gamers across the world are also busy stuffing their faces while playing games. Kotaku's piece on the whole thing is pretty funny as the writer is horrified at the idea that people are getting their chips grease all over their mice. Of course, silverware...