Camelot Unchained announces early 2016 beta test - Camelot Unchained looks to be moving into beta testing in early 2016. In a livestream yesterday, City State Entertainment revealed that the beta should kick off before the end of this winter. The studio also said that all plans…
Star Citizen’s Chris Roberts responds to publication’s ‘long troll’, threatens legal action for defamation - Unless you've been living under a rock lately, you probably know that Star Citizen and its creator Chris Roberts have been under siege from a certain indie game developer in recent months. The crowdfunded sci-fi sandbox…
Dragon’s Prophet calls it quits in North America - The latest free-to-play fantasy MMO to call it quits is Dragon's Prophet. Daybreak and Runewaker announced today the decision to shutter the title in North America. Dragon's Prophet will continue to be available in Europe and Asia for…
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen gets investors, development is continuing - Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen missed out on its Kickstarter goals, but that wasn't the end of the road. Visionary Realms, after an extended trip through volunteer development and a dearth of funding, has raised a…
Massively OP’s first impressions of Devilian - Call my stance on Trion World's upcoming Devilian "oh-so-cautiously interested." Personally, I think Trion invited more grief than it wanted with the importation of ArcheAge to its portfolio, and with many MMO players still stinging from the…
SWTOR will introduce level-scaling in Fallen Empire - [AL:TOR]BioWare threw a nerdrage grenade in the midst of its Star Wars: The Old Republic community yesterday when it announced that as of Knights of the Fallen Empire, player levels will automatically scale down to the…
ArcheAge addresses castle construction bug - A quest bug connected to the construction of castles on ArcheAge's Diamond Shores has resulted in Trion Worlds issuing a hotfix over the weekend to address the situation -- and not everyone is happy. Apparently a…
WoW Factor: A wishlist for World of Warcraft’s Legion expansion - We're going to find out a lot about World of Warcraft:Â Legion in November. Not just because I expect that'll be around the time we get our beta announcement and date, which may even be as soon…
Hyperspace Beacon: SWTOR’s TwitchCon infodump - [AL:TOR]So here's a funny thing: When I watched the TwitchCon streams for Star Wars: The Old Republic, I wasn't exactly looking to get new story reveals because most of those had already been spoiled for me.…
EverQuesting: EQII expansion Terrors of Thalumbra launches November 17th - It's happening in less than two months: EverQuest II's 12th expansion is releasing on Tuesday, November 17th. The dev team announced the date and title during a special reveal livestream, treating viewers to tours of the…
EverQuesting: EQ to release The Broken Mirror expansion November 18th - EverQuest fans excited for the game's next expansion should mark Wednesday, November 19th down on their calendars -- that's the day The Broken Mirror launches. Announced during a special reveal livestream, this 22nd expansion revolves around…
The Game Archaeologist: The assassination of Lord British - At the end of August 2015, the fledgling Shroud of the Avatar community gathered together for a massive PvP fight. This wasn't to be a normal battle, however, as Lord British (Richard Garriott's in-game avatar) waded…
CCP lays out EVE’s 2015/2016 roadmap - CCP has published a new video featuring its EVE Online roadmap for the rest of this year and well into 2016. Executive producer Andie "CCP Seagull" Nordgren is your guide to what's next, though you can…
Perfect Ten: Why big MMO expansions are a good thing - I'm not really on board with the trend of saying that big expansions are back. They never left. Sure, we have one coming out for Star Wars: The Old Republic and Guild Wars 2, but World…
Exploring ‘The Video Game Debate’: Modern online game research - Late last year, I published on Massively-that-was a set of articles addressing current research on the relationship between shyness and online game friendships, including a detailed interview with Dr. Rachel Kowert, a lead researcher on the related…
Star Citizen studio ‘grows’ dev team, claims layoffs are ‘streamlin[ing]’ - It's never exactly calming to hear that a large project is laying people off before release, and that's the rumor swirling around Cloud Imperium Games for the past few days. A recent statement from the studio…
Project Copernicus was in trouble long before its $75M loan - The lengthy post-mortem of Project Copernicus and 38 Studios never seems to end, does it? While the answer to "What went wrong?" is multi-faceted at the very least, a new report floating around shows that there were serious red…
