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I suspect that much of the willingness of players to pour money into MMO Kickstarters is out of a strong desire to see games...

Fans of RIFT have a new expansion to play, but that requires the game's servers to be cooperating in order to actually play it....

It seems so very long ago, but the beginning of 2016 was dominated with excitement and expectations for Blade and Soul. For a good...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, City State Entertainment posted a happy update for Camelot Unchained: Not only has the studio fixed the chat server problems...

Do you remember BlizzCon 2016? It was just a couple of weeks ago, surely you do. One of the topics on discussion was letting...

Hello, dear readers. Would you like to tell me what to do for a while? Choose My Adventure has been absent from the site for...

Pokemon Go has received some large updates recently: the buddy system, medals, some big gym changes (twice), and now we've got dailies. We've been dazzled...

Last week, the owners of a number of North American and European League of Legends Championship Series teams dispatched a letter to Riot Games...

"We are happy to announce that EVE Online: Ascension has been successfully deployed!" That's the word out of Icelandic MMORPG studio CCP Games this morning,...

If you've been curious about The Elder Scrolls Online but didn't want to take the plunge with the box fee, good news for you,...

EVE Online's Ascension expansion launches today, dropping the subscription paywall that's barricaded the game for well over a decade and further reducing the small...

As the subscription MMORPG continues to dwindle and be replaced by free-to-play games (where players come and go without notice) and buy-to-play games (which...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news, Hero's Song launched into early access on Steam, allowing anyone with 20 bucks into the alpha test phase....

Massively OP reader and listener Suikoden79 recently wrote in to the podcast with a gem of a question I thought would be more fun...

All the talk about new playstyles and new heroes in Overwatch doesn't mean much if you never play the game. Are you tempted to...

A week from today, one of the last bastions of the MMORPG subscription model goes free-to-play. I'm talking about EVE Online, of course, and...

This week in MMO crowdfunding news was a surprisingly big one for the genre! First, Crowfall broke $3,000,000 in crowdfunding to date, bringing the...

Activision-Blizzard's Q3 2016 financial report PR just released, surprising no one with record-setting piles of money and success. "The Activision and Blizzard segments had record...

You simply can't have a good and proper Halloween without a perfect soundtrack to back you up. Sure, you could just pop in one...

One of EVE Online's developers once described the new player experience with the line "Welcome to EVE, here's a Rubik's cube, go f**k yourself," and he...