[AL:Rift]Official Site:Â RIFT
Studio:Â Trion Worlds
Launch Date: March 1, 2011
Genre: Fantasy Themepark
Business Model: Hybrid F2P (Optional Sub, Cash Shop)
Platform: PC
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ArcheAge, RIFT, Trove, and more Gamigo MMOs launch a reforestation charity initiative
Gamigo is announcing a big charity project today with Eden Reforestation Projects, which will raise money to plant trees all over the world while...
RIFT tests new world bosses, runs XP bonus event
Even if Gamigo has never stated it, it's widely known that RIFT has been in maintenance mode for a good while now. Active development...
GDC plans summer events as studios from Gamigo to Blizzard to Riot see player surges
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread here in the US and around much of the world, changing life for nearly everyone - even in...
New World details how players will battle the PvE baddies known as The Corrupted
So, you can't just gank everyone you see in New World anymore. That means there's no sense of danger, right? Yeah, not so much....
Global Chat: Don’t mess with my GeForce Now
The titanic struggle going on right now between cloud-based game streaming platform GeForce Now and studios who are pulling their titles from it is...
The Daily Grind: In which MMO have you accumulated the most account goodies?
One of my favorite things when going back to an old favorite MMORPG is creating a new character that gets to benefit from all...
Black Desert Mobile releases Ascension and preps for the Dark Knight, PC version continues its anniversary
There's a whole lot new in the world of Black Desert. There's updates for mobile that have brought Ascension for the game's classes, the...
MMO company Gamigo was just fully acquired by its primary shareholder
It sounds as if Gamigo, which is best known to modern MMORPG players for buying out Trion back in 2018, is going through some...
Gamigo has finally brought back RIFT’s birthday events for Carnival 2020
Does this count as an anniversary celebration for RIFT? Maybe? Close enough? We'll take it! Yes, we've ribbed Gamigo a few times this week for...
Black Desert’s ominous O’dylitta update is launching ‘later this year’
Remember back at E3 and Heidel Ball last year, when in the midst of the hoopla around Black Desert's Shai and Great Expedition expansion...
ArcheAge’s Treacherous Tides is live with a new ocean raid boss and Swiftblade ancestral skills
RIFT's ninth birthday may have come and gone without so much as a whisper from Gamigo this past weekend, but ArcheAge is still getting...
The Stream Team: RIFT turns 9!
It's the last year of single digits for RIFT; the MMORPG is officially nine years old now! Massively OP's MJ is on hand to...
EverQuest’s 21st birthday includes agent system, level 85 boosts
Over at Daybreak's Darkpaw Games, the EverQuest team is taking the MMO out to a bar for its first legal drink. After that? Expect...
The Daily Grind: Is there any hope for RIFT?
Ugh. My heart hurts every time that my attention turns to RIFT. It's one of perhaps six or so MMORPGs that I've dearly, dearly...
Valentine’s Day 2020 across the MMO universe
Per tradition, we've been covering the launch of Valentine's Day events in MMOs and MMORPGs over the last couple of weeks, but tomorrow is...
RIFT and ArcheAge outline their respective Valentine’s Day events
The season of love (or at least mutually beneficial teamwork long enough for everyone to get rewards and then never speak of the pairing...
Diablo III’s live team discusses balance and nerfing animation cheesing classes ahead of 2.6.8 update
Gotta say, I was not expecting a Diablo III dev blog this week, or really ever, what with Diablo IV and Diablo Immortal waiting...
Perfect Ten: The best value MMOs in 2020
While there is nothing wrong with dropping some money on a worthy game, many of us are looking to be as frugal as possible...
Perfect Ten: The MMOs with the most uncertain futures at the start of 2020
This annual column always inspires a certain amount of debate, which is intentional. Outside of the office, a good chunk of that debate is...
Massively Overthinking: The best MMOs of the decade
A few years back, we did a cheeky Massively Overthinking about our five favorite MMORPGs of all time. It was quite a potent list...
