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Chronicles of Elyria puts constraints on your character’s creation
"Character creation" is the watchword of the week at Chronicles of Elyria. In addition to a developer livestream that showed off the first iteration...
Bless says its excessive attention to environmental detail is in the service of immersion
With Bless Online due out on western shores this coming May, players who've never paid much attention to this Korean-born MMO may be wondering...
The Black Death has spawned an actual popularity contest
If you thought your days of losing popularity contests were over when you left school, think again! Indie survival sandbox The Black Death is...
Massively Overthinking: Paying for MMORPG emulators, legal or otherwise
MassivelyOp reader Bryan recently wrote to us with a fun question about emulators, a topic that will simply never die as long as MMORPGs...
Ship of Heroes turns a critical eye to February’s combat alpha
Last month, Ship of Heroes ran its first alpha combat test with backers, and it was a blast (literally). With enough time to process...
Saga of Lucimia will fight wiki infodumps with sparse patch notes
You know how when it's patch day in your favorite MMORPG and you're skimming the patch notes trying to figure out what exactly changed,...
MMO designer Raph Koster reveals ‘Trust Spectrum’ research for online games
If you'll be at GDC this week (we will!), you're in for a treat, as research from MMORPG designer Raph Koster will be on...
Pantropy cancels its Kickstarter, rejects publishing offers, plans a new Kickstarter
As we've been covering in Make My MMO, the Kickstarter for sci-fi MMO shooter Pantropy hadn't been going as well as developer Brain Stone...
Exclusive: Explore Bless Online’s Hieron races, including elves and werewolves
Most western MMORPG gamers know about Bless Online's mechanics and visuals thanks to years of watching the game developed from afar. What hasn't crossed...
Massively Overthinking: The war on MMO chat toxicity
This week, The Ancient Gaming Noob posted up an image of RIFT Prime, where Trion asks people to... play nice. "Just a neighborly reminder...
Battle Bards Episode 117: Destiny
Two Destinies for the price of one! For this episode, the Battle Bards are gearing up in their favorite space armor to take on...
Blade & Soul’s Fire & Blood update is making hardmode dungeons worth your while
So what's in Blade & Soul's Fire & Blood patch next week, other than way too many ampersands that our CMS can't properly parse?...
Global Chat: Avoiding MMO activities
Have you ever noticed that you play it way too safe in your MMOs, especially when it comes to interacting (or not) with others? Aywren...
Saga of Lucimia argues GM events should be mandatory in MMOs, not an ‘optional service’
A few months ago, we ran a Leaderboard poll asking players what kind of live studio-led events they want out of MMORPGs. By way...
Another writer allegedly leaves BioWare – what on earth is going on with Anthem?
Surfacing at the tail end of last week was the news that multiple former BioWare devs who'd all contributed heavily to Star Wars The...
Former SWTOR creative director and key writers form up under new studio FogBank
We don't know exactly what titles they're working on, but three former Star Wars: The Old Republic veterans have joined forces under a studio...
Trove’s Heroes expansion overhauls welcome panel, daily bonuses, particle effects, and the Dracolyte class
We've talked about the new neon cityscape biome and superhero-themed new class Trove is getting when its Heroes expansion launches later this spring. What...
Massively Overthinking: Is battle royale a fad?
This week in Massively Overthinking, I want to talk about something out on the fringes of our genre: battle royale games. We've been watching...
Here’s how Saga of Lucimia says it’ll ‘keep toxicity to an absolute minimum’
This week's dev-written Saga of Lucimia blog asks everybody over the age of 35 to think back to bygone days "when reputation used to...
Fractured is close to a funding deal, hints at upcoming spotlights
If the recent silence in Fractured's neck of the woods has troubled you, just remember that sometimes quiet can mean good as well as...
