Spun out of EA as one of the last remnants of Mythic Entertainment, Broadsword now runs Ultima Online and Dark Age of Camelot.
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Dark Age of Camelot is officially going free-to-play today with Endless Conquest
We've been talking about it for a few years now, but it's officially happening today: Endless Conquest marks Dark Age of Camelot's first foray...
The MOP Up: Monster Hunter World makes monster sales
We've known for a while now that Monster Hunter World was a beast of a game, both in popularity and sales. But it's good...
Massively Overthinking: The problem with MMO ‘dailies’
Longtime MOP Patron and friend of the site Avaera recently posed us an intriguing questions about daily login rewards in MMORPGs.
"Recently my game of choice,...
Ultima Online celebrates Halloween, tests Jolly Roger patch, and ends event program
The 22-year-old Ultima Online is busy celebrating more than just its birthday: It's also celebrating Halloween and the Jolly Roger patch, which hit the...
Legends of Aria is going semi-free-to-play with sweeping New Dawn update
If you've been feeling a bit confused by all of Legends of Aria's recent changes, my friends, you are not alone. Back in August,...
EA is bringing an unspecified number of games back to Steam along with the EA Access plan
While it's not the death of Origin, this bit of news certainly sounds like the dull, wet thud of an axe ramming into its...
Raph Koster’s new MMORPG will reward social gameplay, not just hack-n-slash
Since announcing he is building a new MMORPG with the apparently respectably funded new Playcraft studio, Raph Koster has been doing a long string...
The Game Archaeologist: A brief history of Multi-User Dungeons
You know that sinking feeling when you get into something that's way, waaaay over your head and you have no choice but to swim...
Dark Age of Camelot brings out its Halloween challenges through November 7
Why should Halloween be a time when it's easy to prevail against dark forces? That doesn't seem on-brand, does it? Dark Age of Camelot...
Flameseeker Chronicles: Is it time for Guild Wars 3?
Earlier this month, ArenaNet announced that President Mike O’Brien, former game director on both the original Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2, was leaving...
Dark Age of Camelot celebrates its 18th anniversary
Eighteen years is a long and impressive span for any MMORPG to be kicking around, so naturally an in-game celebration is due for Dark...
The Daily Grind: Are there MMOs you’ve wanted to quit, but you couldn’t?
Very few of us are in a situation wherein large men are perched behind us claiming that something horrible will happen to our loved...
Legends of Aria is overhauling its PvP system once again
Remember this past summer when Citadel Studios announced that it was finally launching Legends of Aria on Steam with a huge overhaul patch that...
Perfect Ten: Kickstarter MMOs that raised the most money
The rise of crowdfunding in the mid-2010s swept a large wave of MMORPGs our way that might never have happened otherwise. For a while...
Pantheon’s Brad McQuaid’s recent dev blogs cover everything from PvP to instancing
Pantheon fans, if you haven't swung by the official site in a few days, you definitely should. Visionary Realms' Brad "Aradune" McQuaid has been...
Raph Koster’s new MMORPG will be more than ‘just hack and slashing your way through levels’
Yesterday, we reported on something pretty thrilling for long-time MMORPG fans: Raph Koster, one of the brains behind classic MMORPG sandboxes Ultima Online and...
Massively Overthinking: The one about MMO roleplay servers
An MOP reader named Thierry recently pointed us to a brewing storm in the World of Warcraft Classic community: In a nutshell, the server...
Raph Koster is making a new MMO and just raised $2.7M in seed funding to do it
So, who wants a new and well-funded MMORPG from the guy who literally wrote the book on virtual worlds? I knew you would. Raph...
Perfect Ten: Solo prequel games to MMORPGs
When studios go about making MMORPGs, risk comes along with the effect as a matter of course. The only question is how to reduce...
Dark Age of Camelot’s free-to-play version is ‘just around the corner’
The dark age of mandatory subscriptions is almost over for one of the industry's most famous PvP MMORPGs.
Dark Age of Camelot announced that its...
