[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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Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2 Through the Veil’s Inner Nayos and convergences
Guild Wars 2: Secrets of the Obscure was a bit of a different expansion in that it wasn't one big chunk of content dropped...
Disney Dreamlight Valley gets multiplayer next month to go with its not-F2P launch
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Disney Dreamlight Valley ditches free-to-play plan as it heads for a December 5 launch
If you were holding out on Disney Dreamlight Valley's early access period to wait for the promised free-to-play launch edition, then we're sorry to...
Guild Wars 2’s latest roadmap plots events, balance, and betas well into 2024
As we noted this morning, ArenaNet has announced Guild Wars 2's next Secrets of the Obscure chapter, Through the Veil, but as it happens...
Guild Wars 2’s Through the Veil and new zone launches November 7, followed by a weapon proliferation beta
If you take a peek at the 2023 calendar with Guild Wars 2 on the brain, you'll realize that it's been two months since...
RIFT revels in Autumn Harvest celebrations during its Steam Tennaversary
You know what MMO threw a pretty good Halloween time? RIFT. Its Autumn Harvest was one of the better annual festivals for the MMO...
Gamigo grants RIFT players 10 days of free sub time to celebrate the MMO’s 10th birthday on Steam
Earlier this year, the MMO community was growing increasingly concerned about the future of the beloved but beleaguered MMORPG RIFT, which has seen repeated...
The MOP Up: Aion Classic finally gets its delicious revenge
Aion Classic unleashed Update 2.4: Stormwing's Revenge on its servers this past week: "Get ready to battle Stormwing and defeat Yamennes to loot heroic...
RIFT runs a full round of October weekend events and gives away another gift
With invasions rampaging across the land and the angry planes trying to rend the sky asunder, every day in RIFT is a quilt of...
The Stream Team: Rift razing in Guild Wars 2
It's Guild Wars 2-sday, and that means it's time for some rift-razing fun! Massively OP's MJ is continuing her Secrets of the Obscure adventures,...
Vague Patch Notes: So what actually kills MMO communities?
Since we're busy getting a front-row seat to World of Warcraft adding the dungeon finder again, only this time it's WoW Classic, we are...
RIFT reruns the Unicornalia event over the weekend, sure why not
The bafflement of RIFT continuing to twitch enough to not be presumed entirely dead continues, as the MMORPG has seen another of its events...
Gamigo’s RIFT celebrates Steam’s 20th birthday with free subs, mounts, and boosts
If you've been on Steam since the early days, you're celebrating a 20th anniversary alongside Valve this week, and some games are jumping in...
Perfect Ten: Times when MMOs brought about world-shattering cataclysms
The notion of an in-game cataclysm is hardly the sole domain of Activision-Blizzard; on the contrary, large-scale apocalypses pop up all the time in...
The Stream Team: Guild Wars 2’s Mother of Stars
Massively OP's MJ has discovered she's not in Kansas anymore! Not that she ever was; she was in Guild Wars 2's Garenhoff investigating the...
RIFT reruns its weekend-long Budgie Days racing event until August 20
Budgie. Budgie budgie budgie. Budgeegles. Budgaroo. Birdie. Budgo. Budgie Days that are back once again in RIFT from now until August 20th. That's three...
RIFT appoints yet another community manager following previous departures
The revolving door for RIFT's community managers is a source of slight amusement and never-ending frustration for the MMO's beleaguered community. In 2022 alone,...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Hands-on with Guild Wars 2’s Secrets of the Obscure
It has been a weird time to be a Guild Wars 2 fan, with a lot of ups and downs lately. End of Dragons...
Guild Wars 2 exhibits Secrets of the Obscure’s rift hunting in another new vid
When Secrets of the Obscure launches later this month, Guild Wars 2 isn't going to abandon old Tyria in favor of the new zones....
Perfect Ten: 10 memorable MMO marketing campaigns from the genre’s past
Believe it or not, MMOs get off easy when it comes to notorious marketing campaigns. Anything on the following list, good or bad, is...