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Camelot Unchained: Explosions, music, and death to getting one-shotted
Camelot Unchained's Mark Jacobs helms this week's studio update, with a peek into the team's progress on shadows, archery and combat animations, siege engines,...
Crowfall’s ads and disads system is the best part of character creation
Ah, character creation: the best part of so many MMORPGs. So how's it working for Crowfall? A new dev blog out this week from...
Massively Overthinking: Do MMORPGs aspire to pro-social mechanics?
Massively OP reader and Patron Avaera has a thoughtful question for the team and readers this week. "I wish more virtual world games thought deeply...
Chronicles of Elyria has 12 tribes planned, could include cross-breeding
While progress on Chronicles of Elyria has slowed a little this summer due to illnesses and vacations, the team has a lot to report...
Massively OP Podcast Episode 123: Ashes of Creation’s Steven Sharif
Justin sits down with Ashes of Creation’s Steven Sharif to talk about the game’s successful Kickstarter, handling a wild community, and the next steps for this up-and-coming sandbox MMORPG.
Global Chat: Secret World Legends edition
Over the past week, many MMO bloggers returned to the conspiracy-laden regions of Secret World Legends to see if they could answer the million-dollar...
Cloud Imperium rejects wild claim that Star Citizen is ‘owned by a bank’
The Star Citizen subreddit is aflame this weekend after bloggers on multiple sites and social media platforms, seemingly spurred on by a certain self-proclaimed...
Massively Overthinking: Forced socializing in MMORPGs
Massively OP Patron Jackybah has a question for this week's Massively Overthinking that's probably going to kick up some dust. He wonders whether MMO...
Trove’s Megalithic update lands on PS4 and Xbox One June 27
Way back in April, Trion teased a "mega" 2017 update for Trove intended to bring the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One versions of the game...
Black Death is building out some nasty PvP hotspot content
What's indie survival sandbox The Black Death been up to since it began taking "drastic action" to reorient its early access state this spring?
Pillaging....
Here’s how Albion Online’s open-world raid bosses work
In anticipation of the upcoming launch of Albion Online, Sandbox Interactive has posted a fresh dev blog on the big bads of the game,...
Amazon’s Breakaway revamps warriors, confirms more upgrades on the way
Last September, the internet was buzzing about Amazon Game Studios' big reveals, including Breakaway, which the company teased for weeks ahead of time. It...
Massively Overthinking: The best MMOs and multiplayers of E3 2017
E3 is drawing to a close, with its reveals over and done with -- all that's left is processing our interviews and hands-on pieces....
Crowfall’s AI is about to get a huge makeover
Hey, look over there -- a shiny!
Crowfall Principal Programmer Chris Ledwith, the newly dubbed "AI Guy," explains in a dev blog today that the...
Bless Online isn’t canceled in the west after all; Neowiz will self-publish
Last week, both Neowiz and Aeria Games confirmed that Aeria is no longer serving as the western Bless Online publisher -- worse, Bless appeared to be entirely...
Battle Bards Episode 100: Centennial spectacular!
After four years and over 700 MMORPG music tracks, the Battle Bards have arrived at their 100th show! For this centennial spectacular, Syl, Steff,...
E3 2017: Dauntless founder’s alpha begins August 18
At E3 today, Phoenix Labs announced that Dauntless' founder's alpha will begin on August 18th, not coincidentally the same day the NDA drops and...
Global Chat: Why FFXIV is the most newbie-friendly MMO
What's the most newbie-friendly MMO? According to Pete at Dragonchasers, it's Final Fantasy XIV. He's been pretty impressed by the support structure that the...
Siltbreaker, the first chunk of Dota 2’s co-op PvE campaign, is now live
It seems co-op multiplayer campaigns are the thing for MOBAs to do lately, if SMITE and Master X Master and Dota 2 are any...
CD Projekt Red claims Cyberpunk 2077 design docs are being held hostage by thieves
CD Projekt Red, the maker of the acclaimed Witcher RPG series, claimed that cyber thieves have made off with "internal files" and "early designs"...
