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Massively Overthinking: Being Uncle Owen in MMORPGs
Ever since the tone-deaf SOE proclamation that nobody wanted to play Uncle Owen in an MMORPG, contrary me has consciously fought that very stupid...
Chronicles of Elyria’s online tech is coming together
Chronicles of Elyria is continuing its... interesting method of disseminating development information by posting blogs about its "adventure teams" and their work on the...
Global Chat: Is Ashes of Creation worth backing?
With all of the hullabaloo going on concerning Ashes of Creation and its Kickstarter campaign, a few bloggers are asking themselves whether or not...
Battle Bards Episode 98: Perfect World International
Perfect World — it’s not just a massive games publisher, it’s also an MMORPG! The team at Battle Bards timidly tiptoe into this unknown...
Identity announces SpatialOS integration, delays town square module
It's time to play catch-up on another interesting indie MMORPG, Identity. You may remember this as the contemporary life simulator sandbox that has raised...
Massively Overthinking: Is the MMO genre facing an identity crisis?
MMORPG blogger and MOP commenter Isarii (@ethanmacfie) recently published an excellent video positing that the MMO industry is facing a "massive identity crisis."
"The MMO...
Conan Exiles goes nuts with home decoration and defense
If interior decoration gets your motor running, then Conan Exiles is about to become your favorite haunt. The survival sandbox just unloaded a slew...
Revelation Online adds Snowpine Reach to its travelogues
My.com has a pair of new dev blogs out this week. The first focuses on Snowpine Reach, a snowy Alpine zone in the northeast...
Atlas Reactor’s season three appends Meridian to the roster
Season 3 has dropped in Trion's Atlas Reactor today, introducing the brand-new Hyperforge map and a brand-new support hero, Meridian.
"He blurs the line between...
Global Chat: Die inventory management die!
Do you have inventory management with the passion of a thousand burning suns? Have you lost most of the vision in your left eye...
Massively Overthinking: Competitive PvE in MMORPGs
During last week's podcast, Justin and I bumped into a tangential topic about competitive PvE and how relatively rare it is in MMORPGs, which...
Pokemon Go’s first Knight Foundation event is this weekend in North Carolina
Pokemon Go really wants to get you outside and moving. That's the gist of its new partnership with the Knight Foundation, through which Niantic hope...
Conan Exiles moves to biweekly patch cadence, reshuffles development priorities
You might have noticed there was no Conan Exiles patch this week. That was intentional. Funcom says it hasn't been happy with the quality of its...
Global Chat: Happy 10th birthday, LOTRO!
With Lord of the Rings Online hitting its 10th anniversary this past week, plenty of bloggers are enjoying the festivities and recalling some of...
Massively OP Interview: Ashes of Creation on a new way to MMO
Today, Ashes of Creation takes a big plunge into an all-or-nothing Kickstarter campaign. Over the past few months, the MMO seemed to come out...
Elite Dangerous’ novel-concluding Salomé event was wrecked by long-con griefers
Last week, we reported on an impending roleplaying event in Elite Dangerous that was set to influence the outcome of Premonition, a game-based novel...
Massively Overthinking: Are MMORPG players a minority in their own genre?
Deep in the comments of the MMOs-vs.-survival-sandboxes thread from last week, reader miol_ produced a beautiful comment about how MMO players have become a...
Wakfu adds leaderboard rewards, ventures further up Mount Zinit
An unexpected environment and a shocking revelation about a key character lays in wait for adventurers who continue to scale Wakfu's Mount Zinit.
The team...
Battle Bards Episode 97: The sound of magic
“Magic can be ANYthing!”
The forces of magic run deep within MMORPGs, casting shadows of wonder wherever we look — and listen. In today’s show,...
Tamriel Infinium: Class changes are a bad reason to pan Elder Scrolls Online Morrowind
Elder Scrolls Online possesses a distinct flavor. I can honestly say that there is no other MMORPG like it. In fact, the whole Elder Scrolls...
