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The first and most-backed City of Heroes successor City of Titans has a couple of dev pieces out this month answering questions posed to...

An RPG based on Magic: the Gathering is one of those things I have both long wanted and long assumed was just never going...

Hope the start of your summer is calm, peaceful, and orderly, because it's sure as heck not going to end that way if LawBreakers...

This week in MMO crowdfunding, Minecraft-meets-GTAO MMO Broke Protocol's Kickstarter ended unsuccessfully on Thursday, but the good news is that the game launched its early access...

The Dreamcast was a brief but shining aberration in the gaming world. Coming along years after Sega had fallen out of its position as...

Over the last couple of weeks, the monetization of unreleased games has become a pervasive and uncomfortable theme for the MMO genre. Just in...

Your favorite game is going to die. I wrote about that. Some games are never even going to get to launching in the first...

Last time, I told you my Secret World Legends tour with Creative Director Romain Amiel was too big to fit in just one Chaos...

There's a law on the books in China that states you can't sell random loot boxes in an online game without disclosing the odds...

I may or may not be in that secretive NDA-locked closed beta of Secret World Legends -- I'm not telling. But there is something...

This week in MMO crowdfunding, Ashes of Creation's Kickstarter came to a close with $3.2M and nearly 20,000 backers, making it the biggest MMORPG Kickstarter...

This time last year, I polled the Massively OP writers for their opinions on which MMOs had had the best year, or half year,...

As of May 31st, Ryzom (formerly Saga of Ryzom) has transitioned into a slightly different business model that will take a little explaining. Essentially, the...

This week in MMO crowdfunding, Legends of Aria -- which we'll probably never stop accidentally calling Shards Online -- began its alpha, introducing testers and...

The good news for Secret World Legends players is that you won't need to pay money for the game. You won't even need to...

When we last left off in Neverwinter, I was finding out whether or not people wanted me to purchase the game's subscription-but-not-really. You voted...

With the resumption of LawBreakers development chatter last week and the recent NDA-free closed beta round last weekend, you might have guessed that Nexon and...

This week in MMO crowdfunding, Star Citizen officially broke the $150,000,000 crowdfunding mark, propelled along by gamers sinking large sums of cash into the latest...

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...

There are games that simply do not hold up past the demo, and frankly I've played a lot of those in Boston. Usually those are...