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Massively OP Podcast Episode 105: Samurai and Smedley
Eliot, Justin, and Bree discuss FFXIV's fanfest reveals, John Smedley's new Amazon studio, Path of Exile's expansion, Skyforge's console plan, and the Dociu/Taylor moves, with mailbag questions on level scaling and replacing favorite games.
Check out Grim Dawn’s new cosmetic system
Online ARPG Grim Dawn has a new NPC on the way this year that'll change how players interact with gear, specifically cosmetic gear: The...
Make My MMO: Smed’s new studio, Camelot’s beta, and Elite’s Holo-Me (February 18, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, we did a retrospective on why crowdfunded MMOARPG Hero's Song failed. It's almost as if Justin knew (cue spooky music) because...
Smed’s new Amazon studio is basically Pixelmage Games
Amazon Game Studios announced yesterday that it had picked up MMORPG genre veteran John Smedley to helm one of its up-and-coming online game studios....
Guild Wars 2 Art Director Daniel Dociu is leaving ArenaNet
Yesterday, ArenaNet's Mike O'Brien announced to forumgoers that longtime studio Art Director Daniel Dociu "will be leaving ArenaNet" and Guild Wars 2.
"Daniel Dociu will...
Amazon Game Studios gave John Smedley a new online game team to run
If you wondered what John Smedley was up to following the death of Pixelmage Games and Hero's Song in December, now you have an...
League of Legends data feature in New York state lawsuit against Time Warner
Remember back in the day when you'd complain about your lag and connectivity issues in an online game, only to have the studio tell...
Blizzard sells toys, ZeniMax buys VR studio, and Jagex brings RuneScape to Amazon Echo
Consider this your triple dose of MMO industry news for the day so that you can be the talk of the water cooler tomorrow.
Activision...
Shards Online’s always-on alpha is now live
Citadel Studios' MMORPG Shards Online has formally launched its alpha today. "Alpha for a game like this means we’ve pretty much got all the...
Richard Garriott publishes his memoirs
When you've lived a life as wacky and full as Ultima creator Richard Garriott, it only stands to reason that you'd probably want to share your...
Grim Dawn recaps 2016, plans first expansion by summer 2017
Grim Dawn's latest "Grim Misadventures" featurette is a recap of its progress through 2016 in the leadup to its first birthday coming up in...
Massively Overthinking: Hopes and wishes for MMORPGs in the new year
One of the frustrating bits about our end-of-the-year content rollouts is that sometimes predictions and story roundups can come across as negative. It's way...
The most popular MMORPG conversations of 2016
Last week, we posted a rundown of the most popular MMORPG articles of 2016, calculated strictly by the number of pageviews they got. Today, we're going...
MMO Year in Review: A whole New World (September 2016)
This year, we’re taking a time-machine back through our MMO coverage, month by month, to hit the highlights and frame our journey before we...
Here are all of the online gaming deals from Amazon’s Digital Day sale
Wake up! Are you awake? Good, because you've got less than 24 hours to take advantage of Amazon's first ever "Digital Day" sales event....
Perfect Ten: Biggest MMORPG surprises of 2016
Back at the beginning of December, I posted a list of what I considered to be the biggest MMORPG stories of 2016. However, there...
Amazon preps Digital Day for December 30
A brand-new shopping holiday is on its way for the backend of the year, courtesy of Amazon. This Friday, December 30th, Amazon will hold...
Here’s why Star Citizen is using Lumberyard – and why CIG waited to tell us
Just before the holiday weekend, Cloud Imperium announced that both Star Citizen and Squadron 42 are using Lumberyard, Amazon’s robust game engine, and in...
Star Citizen launches 2.6 Star Marine, announces Amazon Lumberyard partnership
It's always nice to be able to report good news about Star Citizen, as one of our readers noted when sending us this tip, and...
Age of Conan composer Knut Avenstroup Haugen to helm Conan Exiles soundtrack
Funcom's getting the crew back together for Conan Exiles! Well, part of the crew: The studio announced today that it's roped in Age of...
