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Perfect Ten: MMOs to watch in 2019
The MMO genre is in a strange and uncertain place right now -- but also one that is quietly thrilling. We've long passed the...
Brad McQuaid’s MMO Pantheon has snapped up Trion’s Linda ‘Brasse’ Carlson
Did you wonder where Linda "Brasse" Carlson was going to end up post-Trion Worlds' implosion? Because you had to know she'd end up somewhere;...
Pantheon offers special PAX pledge tier worth $1000, gives five of them away in contest
Among the more unusual business model setups for the incoming wave of indie MMORPGs is Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's. As we've previously covered,...
Visionary Realms and Cryptic Studios put out help wanted notices
As always, we here at Massively OP keep our eyes glued to MMO studio job boards to see if any posted positions might give...
Make My MMO: The biggest MMO crowdfunding news of 2017
Welcome to a special edition of Make My MMO, Massively OP's regular recap of what's going on in crowdfunded MMOs, which we do specifically...
The Game Archaeologist: Vanguard Saga of Heroes
The significance of Vanguard's development, release, long-running drama, second chance, and eventual closure should be of great interest not just to game historians but...
Pantheon’s Brad McQuaid on alternate rulesets and multi-server MMOs
Pantheon's Brad McQuaid has another new blog post up - he's on a roll this week - this one on alternate rulesets in MMORPGs...
Pantheon’s social systems aren’t ‘simply bringing back the past’
One of the most interesting things to cover when it comes to Pantheon's development has been its reconciliation of two superficially opposing ideas for...
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen’s pre-alpha will launch by the holidays – but you can’t afford it
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen fans viewing the team demoing the game at TwitchCon this past week were delighted to hear one surprise announcement:...
Make My MMO: The Thargoids should win Elite Dangerous (September 30, 2017)
This week in MMO crowdfunding, Elite has finally begun to sound "dangerous" indeed. After just a few days of owning players, the alien race that "returned"...
Brad McQuaid: MMO devs are ‘making the very, very early foundations of the Holodeck’
Pantheon and MMOs like it are bringing our dream future one step closer (or at least, Lt. Barclay's dream future), Brad McQuaid suggests in a new interview...
Pantheon’s Brad McQuaid elaborates on designing for an audience
Did you know that Brad McQuaid's Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen is not meant to be for everyone? Probably, because the game sort of...
Pantheon’s Brad McQuaid on skill memorization, mana management, and combat prep
When an MMO is deep in development, it's natural for players to want to know the answers to everything, down to the tiniest detail,...
Pantheon’s Brad McQuaid on ‘vertical interdependence,’ WoW killers, and attracting nontraditional MMO players
Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's July newsletter is one of its better ones, featuring a Q&A with Visionary Realms' Brad McQuaid himself. A few highlights:
McQuaid...
Pantheon shows the class you’ll never be allowed to play
There was a lot of buzz swirling about Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen's hour-and-a-half developer livestream yesterday, thanks to a truckload of information shared...
Pantheon studio Visionary Realms finds firmer financial footing
Looking at Pantheon today, you almost wouldn't know it flopped its Kickstarter way back in 2014. That's because the team kept at it and...
Pantheon attempts to woo the Kickstarter community with its progress
It's no secret that Pantheon and Kickstarter haven't had the best of relationships, what with the game's crowdfunding campaign failing to fund back in the...
Brad McQuaid’s Pantheon team expands yet again
Visionary Realms, the Brad McQuaid-led outfit building Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen, announced this morning that it's expanded again with the hire of two...
Make My MMO: Elite Dangerous drenches Gamescom with gameplay videos (August 20, 2016)
This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Elite: Dangerous released an absolute space-ton of new videos out at Gamescom: one on crew, one on ship transfers, one on...
Brad McQuaid: Pantheon will put the ‘E’ back in PvE
Time to feast on the bounty of a rich Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen AMA on /r/MMORPG, courtesy of creator Brad McQuaid. Yesterday, McQuaid...
